Childhood Obesity and prevention: Action by parents and children.
Obesity, also known as overweight is defined by WHO (2018:1) as the excessive accumulation of fats that can cause harm to the health of an individuals. Obesity or overweight metrics are measured through the use of internationally accepted formula Body Mass Index (BMI). This involves the juxtaposition of body weight in kilograms against the body height in Meters. Simply put dividing the weight of an individual in KGs by the Square of the Height in Meters. Once the result is obtained,… Continue Reading...
interventions that are still adaptable to target populations. The CDC (2017) offers suggestions for local, state, and federal officials to implement prevention strategies including education-based interventions that prevent childhood obesity. Likewise, the CDC (2017) encourages standard practices for early childhood obesity risk factor identification and nutritional and lifestyle counselling. Standard practices for obesity management in this community does align generally with state and federal policies, each of which recognizes there is a problem and understands the wealth of evidence showing how obesity is linked to a number of comorbid conditions that are essentially preventable.
Effective Disease Management
Effective disease management for obesity depends on a number of critical factors, including the patient’s overall health status, socioeconomic demographics, geography,… Continue Reading...
alarming issue of the childhood obesity pandemic. It is alarming due to the fact that it has short- as well as long- run negative impacts. Risk factor determination forms the main solution to preventing it. While scant literature on childhood obesity risk factors can be found, experts are becoming increasingly aware of the significance of early life settings. However, hardly any risk factor identified is proven; most are only potential (Reilly et al. 2005).
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This research work intends to determine and quantify obesity-related risk factors in case of seven-year-olds enrolled in ALSPAC (Avon… Continue Reading...
show that “schools are unlikely to impact on the childhood obesity epidemic by incorporating such interventions without wider support across multiple sectors and environments,” (Adab, Lancashire, Hemming, et al. (2018, p. 1).
Among all populations, the most important reason why anti-obesity policies and programs have been ineffective is that they have failed to address some of the systemic issues at stake. Some of the overarching, systemic concerns include socioeconomic class, disenfranchisement, and persistent disadvantage: social factors that are linked with higher prevalence of the disease. In almost all countries, obesity rates are higher among lower socioeconomic groups (Kornet-van der… Continue Reading...
Community Contributes to Your Identified Problem and Resolving the Issue
Childhood obesity is a common problem. It has a relationship with short and long-term adverse outcomes. It affects ethnic/racial minority and children who are deprived economically and disproportionately. There is no doubt that it is a great threat to public health. Multi-sector and multilevel prevention and management strategies are the best touted for resolving the problem (Taveras, et al., 2015).
Obesity and overweight rates among black and Latino girls in high school and women in Boston are alarmingly high. Black men have been reported to indicate the highest rates of… Continue Reading...
regard to health status. In accordance to Ahmad et al. (2010), childhood obesity can give rise to diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, liver disease, heart disease, sleep issues, and eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia. There is also the likelihood of asthma and respiratory illnesses. Statistics indicate that children who are suffering from obesity have approximately, 2.4 to 4.5 times greater risk for developing hypertension together with 2.4 to 8.0 fold increase in prevalence of dyslipidemia as adults who are between the ages of 27 and 31, in comparison to children with normal body mass index (BMI). Furthermore, members of this… Continue Reading...
the health of the American society because there is likely to be an increase in the childhood obesity in the nearest future. Thus, the author suggests that Americans should inculcate a diet culture to get thin.
Carla, Rice. "Becoming "the Fat Girl": Acquisition of an Unfit Identity." Women's Studies International Forum 30, no. 2 (2007): 158-74.
Carla explores the theory of feminist poststructuralist of fat that narrates diverse fat women in the Canadian context. The author documents the cultural message regarding fitness and fatness contributing to the perceptions of the fat frame being unfit for the societal values. Typically, size stereotypes have attributed to lack of… Continue Reading...
to suggest that physical activity is on the decline and childhood obesity on the rise, investigating the attitudes of children towards physical education is important to understanding this phenomenon.
This study will research the overall attitudes of boys and girls in the fourth grade toward physical education from three different elementary schools within one school district. Since boys typically enjoy physical activity more than girls after the age of nine years-old, the study will determine how boys and girls view physical education. Also, the study will be important because children need to obtain physical activity to remain healthy and promote… Continue Reading...
