Overweight children

The number of overweight and obese children is only increasing. It is important for children to eat adequate nutrients to ensure development, growth, and health (Brown et al., 2013). Children can become obese if they lack exercise, consume high fat and/or empty caloric foods, and watch their family eat or over eat unhealthy foods. Brown et al. (2013) implies adequate nutrition can improve a child’s academic performance in school, reduce tardiness and absences by decreasing the chances of a child

Obese and overweight Hispanic children are a direct consequence of a low Socioeconomic Status. A famous American chef, Tom Colicchio, once said: “This is what people don 't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It 's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It 's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition” . On the other hand, a socioeconomic status, according

Nowadays children are becoming increasingly overweight. With more technology, children are spending more time indoor than outside getting exercise. If we continue to allow this to happen, not only will our children be overweight but they will be obese. Obesity is a medical disorder when a child is over the weight for their age and height. However, there is an understanding that because they are children there is still a chance that this will change. Children have a higher metabolism rate than adults

Today I read “10 Million African Children Obese or Overweight” by Erin-Conway Smith. This article was published on January 28th, 2016 in USA Today. Every time I turn on the TV to watch one of my shows the advertisement with the starving African children comes on with the sad music and asks for 70 cents a day to feed the children. So they when I read the title of this article, I thought it was a joke. All I’ve seen about food in Africa is that there isn’t any and everyone is starving and dying. But

The number of obese children more than tripled since 1971. Physical education should be a mandatory class, because at least one in three children in the U.S. are overweight or obese. Obesity is causing a huge amount of health problems that previously weren't seen until adulthood. If all children had PE class every day, it would help reduce the number of children affected by obesity and children would develop a habit of daily physical exercise. Some health problems obese kids are getting can be

through as one progresses from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood. This time is of great importance as it is crucial to establish positive health and social behaviours (AIHW, 2011). A large portion of the current generation of Australian children and adolescents face a large array of both biophysical and/or psychosocial health issues which not only affects their quality of life but also has an impact on ‘the health of the population in the future, and the health of society in a much broader

Latino/Hispanic adults. Conflicting findings exist regarding this relationship in children, and little is known about the impact of acculturation on children’s success in pediatric weight management programs. The purposes of the study were to (1) examine the relationship between acculturation and overweight/obese weight status and (2) determine the impact of acculturation on the changes in weight status among overweight/obese children 12 and 24 months after having participated in a weight management intervention

Boys Girls Total Number of children assessed: 100 75 175 Underweight (< 5th %ile) 18% 13% 16% Normal BMI (5th - 85th %ile) 55% 67% 60% Overweight or obese (≥ 85th %ile)* 27% 20% 24% Obese (≥ 95th %ile) 14% 5% 10% *Terminology based on: Barlow SE and the Expert Committee [9] Graph 1: Prevalence of overweight and obesity Graph 2: Prevalence of overweight and obesity in boys and girls Graph 3: Prevalence of underweight in boys and girls DISCUSSION Obesity and overweight have become the global

image has been correlating obesity which may cause a psychological distress, and it causes children would binge eat to cope their emotions. Robert and Doung (201)  studied 4175 children the age  of 11-17. Weight and height were measured after the interview was completed. The interview was about one to two hours depending on the psychology problem of the child. Using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for children, Version 4 (DISC-IV). A BMI

fat content. In children, ages 2-18, if BMI exceeds 30 the child is considered obese. If the child’s BMI is greater than the 85th percentile, but under the 95th percentile, the child is classified as overweight (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014). Health issues associated with being overweight/obese include increased risk of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, or heart disease (Edelman et al., 2014). An overweight/obese child is also at risk for social issues. Being overweight/obese can have