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Childhood Obesity A Serious Problem
Collins article really puts childhood obesity in perspective by the way he compares a study from 1979-1981 and the same study in 1997-1999. Here he explains that the amount of kids 6-17 with diabetes has doubled. In only 20 years we see a huge decrease in progress against getting children to understand why being healthy is important if they want to live long, happy, lives as Americans. Another interesting point is that the total medical costs from 1979 to 1999 has gone from $35 to $127 million. -
Childhood Obesity: Most experts identified physical activity and the use of best practices are key to successful programs
Bascetta writes a strong article about how there are programs made by the Institute of Medicine that are introducing more physical activities in children’s lives between the ages of 6-11. For example, at schools they are offering each child a punch card and for every lap the walk at recess or in a physical education class, the get a punch in their punch card and depending on the amount of punches, they can redeem it for some kind of incentive. Something they pointed out which was brought up was -
Childhood Obesity
In Liebert’s article she asks many important questions that need to be asked. Questions about whether the parents are either oblivious to the issue of childhood obesity or causing it for their young ones. Can obesity be hereditary? Parents can be the ones to blame for their child to be considered obese for many simple reasons. For example, the parents are doing the grocery shopping, not the 10 year old child. -
Childhood Obesity: ethical and policy issues
Voigt explains in this article that the issue of childhood obesity is approached from the wrong direction. Parents are focused on dealing with the issue of an overweight child once they have been overweight for a long period of time instead of just generally instilling the idea of a healthy lifestyle from the start. -
Severe Childhood Obesity on the Rise in U.S.
Firger explains in her article more in depth with facts and statistics. She demonstrates that to be childhood obese, the child has a body mass index of 100th -140th percentile fat compared to a healthier child who is in the 5th-85th percentile. The range for what is considered a healthy child is so broad because they must compensate for height and muscle because this is a growing time in their lives from 6-17 years old. -
Childhood Obesity: prevalence, pathology, and prevention
Ahima is an interesting source to have for this topic of childhood obesity in America because he speaks about how being overweight will cause serious health concerns. He explains in further depth that obesity will lead to diabetes and how asthma is right around the corner for these children with poor dieting habits. These young Americans lives are at risk and they simply do not realize it. These kids need to know why they need to eat more apples and less cheeseburgers or else our live expectancy