The Effects of Childhood Obesity
Julia Buckingham
English Composition II
Instructor Stacey Novak
October 31, 2010
childhood obesity is directly linked to diabetes type II and many other health problems. This paper will discuss the signs and symptoms of childhood obesity. Along with the signs and symptoms of childhood obesity, this paper will also cover statistics on our nation’s growing problem with childhood obesity and diabetes type II.
Children at age twelve are getting adult onset diabetes. As many questions arise, one of the main questions happens to be does childhood obesity have any effect on the general population getting diabetes? Another question many people are asking is whether or not a lack of exercise as well as obesity affects their child’s probability of getting diabetes?
Studies show that childhood obesity is directly linked to diabetes. Many countries have the problem of obesity. Because our society is so busy, most families have the same routine for dinner. How many times have you just decided to go through a drive thru at a fast food restaurant? eating healthy definitely helps to keep us all healthier. Many times children eat fast food and junk food while they play video games. Unfortunately with the busy lives that most parents live, fast food is a quick and easy way to feed the family. Exercise is very important for children. Nowadays children spend a lot of time on the computer and playing video games.
The Essay on Obesity: Nutrition and Fast Food
... prepare healthier meals. Unless people take action against fast food marketing, childhood obesity will remain a problem across the United States. ... unhealthy eating habits that can lend to obesity or Type 2 Diabetes. Fast food companies take advantage of these well-known ... that parents must take the personal responsibility to prohibit children from watching certain channels or going to certain places. ...
Our country is facing an epidemic of childhood obesity. With childhood obesity there is the risk of diabetes. Children as young as twelve are getting adult onset diabetes. One third of people born in 2005 will have diabetes. Eating healthy and getting regular exercise is very important. Children look up to their parents. Setting an example by making a healthy meal for dinner is a good way to help children eat healthier.
If you want to help your child, set an example in your house. Put healthy food out. Put out vegetables. If they don’t eat the vegetables on the plate, put it out the next day as a soup. Don’t scold your children or push them, just keep bringing it out. Put it out in an omelet for breakfast. Put fruit out with whole grain French toast. Instead of saying, “eat fruit,” you put it out on French toast with light syrup. There’s different ways of bringing back foods over and over and over again until your child starts to eat them. Set the example by not keeping cakes and cookies and all these things around the house.
Some tips for when your child has a sweet tooth. Frozen yogurt is a great way to satisfy a sweet tooth and still stick to a healthy diet. Moderation is definitely the key to sticking to a healthy diet. The body does require some sugars. Tracking your calorie intake and making sure to exercise is very important.
Nine million American kids, 14% of children and 12% of teens, are now obese. The rate of childhood obesity has doubled over the last two decades. Virtually unheard of in children just twenty years ago, Type 2 diabetes (a preventable adult lifestyle disease intimately associated with excessive body weight, lack of exercise, and poor eating habits) has skyrocketed among young Americans. The number one cause of type 2 diabetes in children is explicitly cited by the American Diabetes Association with unequivocal lucidity being overweight. Fortunately, tangible solutions are close at hand for parents of overweight children.
I plan to demonstrate that childhood obesity is a huge health concern. For example twenty two percent of the children in Clark County Nevada are obese. (America’s kids are in big trouble Heidi Knapp Rinella Las Vegas Review Journal. Las Vegas, Nevada July18, 2010.)”I think a lot of the problem is that you have a lot of shift workers here in Las Vegas, and quick access to lower-cost buffets and food items, around-the-clock access to food and alcohol,” said Robin Morello, a bariatric nurse with the University Weight Loss Center, a partnership of University Medical Center and the University of Nevada School of Medicine. (America’s kids are in big trouble Heidi. Las Vegas Review Journal. Las Vegas, Nev.: July18, 2010. pg. A.1)
The Essay on Children who are very obese by the four may be more likely to have lower IQ
In August 2006, edition a study was published in The Journal of Pediatrics. According to it – Children who are very obese by age 4 may be more likely to have lower IQ scores. Daniel J. Driscoll, MD, Phd, and his colleagues John T. and Winifred M. Hyward conduct this study. Driscoll is professor of pediatrics and the other two were professor of genetic research at University of Florida. According ...
Family members can help to promote a healthier lifestyle by simply being a role model and by adapting their lifestyle to be a healthier lifestyle. While completing my research I discovered just how much of a problem childhood obesity is. For example, An increasing number of children and teenagers are now obese and are at risk for developing high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke, including diabetes, even as children and teenagers. This could be considered an emerging epidemic with significant impact upon the health of our nation and the world, says a physician at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. (Obesity and Diabetes; Overweight Children: An Emerging Epidemic Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA. Atlanta: Aug 5, 2007. pg. 12)
Families can help keep their children from being obese by simply demonstrating a healthy lifestyle. Exercise is also very important. Education is a very good tool in helping to create a healthy lifestyle. Studies show that children that have obese parents have a higher risk of being obese. Parents that think that their children are possibly at risk for diabetes can request simple blood tests. Obese children are at a higher risk for health problems.
Lifestyle modifications are the key, with a focus on health objectives rather than “dieting,” which is unsustainable, fad driven eating rarely based on balanced, nutritious, and inspiring meals. Poor diets marked by excessive portion sizes, laden with empty calories from fat and processed foods, behemoth 40 ounce soft drinks, and daily makeshift meals comprised of packaged snacks, candies, chips, and other calorie dense items with inadequate fill factor and anemic nutritional content are a primary factor in weight gain. Coupled with an alarming lack of physical activity in kids who are increasingly sedentary spending hours indoors, nearly immobile, at the computer or watching TV, and demonstrating unhealthy eating habits translate to overeating mammoth calories that cannot be burned off. C.S.P.I. offers a salient example: “it would take 75 minutes of biking for a young person to burn off the calories in a 20-ounce bottle of soda”.
The Essay on Exercise and Healthy Diet for Obesity
Exercise and Healthy Diet for Obesity Obesity is a medical condition that requires long term treatment and intervention in which a regular exercise and healthy diet are probably the most believable two important treatments that could help altering the clinical course of obesity. First of all, exercising on a regular basis is believed to be one of the two most essential factors helping you to get a ...
Family support and active parental participation in a child’s weight reduction program are essential for success. Listed below are some strategies that a good family support system should include: making dietary changes gradually, not drastically, developing an enjoyable, sustainable routine; controlling portion sizes, planning meals as a family whenever possible (avoiding eating while watching TV or working at the computer), not using food as a reward, limiting snacking, and making better food choices. A good support system should also include increasing physical activity, especially walking, and arranging family outings that revolve around exercise to foster a vital lifestyle; knowing what your child eats at school (often a truly frightening amalgam of nutritionally treacherous school lunch gremlins and vending machine bugaboos, both subjects for a future column) and packing your child’s lunch whenever possible; watching what your kids drink, cutting back on sodas and other fruitless soft drinks, which account for a massive influx of empty calories into the daily diets of many overweight kids. Contrary to popular belief, less than 1% of all obesity is caused by physical problems (i.e. endocrine malfunction), rather, it occurs when a person eats more calories than the body burns up.
While eating healthy is important, there are some facts that every parent should know. Widespread use of the sweetener fructose may be directly responsible for some of the ongoing increase in rates of childhood diabetes and obesity, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of California-Davis. Fructose is a sugar that naturally occurs in low amounts in fruits and vegetables, making up as much as 5 to 10 percent of any given fruit by weight. In 1971, however, scientists discovered a way to synthesize cheap syrup composed of 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose. Because normal table sugar is composed of only 50 percent fructose and 50 percent glucose, the sweetener was dubbed “high fructose corn syrup” (HFCS) and quickly became the most popular sweetener in the U.S. food and beverage industry.
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Greg Critter in his article "Too much of a good thing" tries to bring a valid point of stigmatising overeating in children. The author strongly advocates parental advice in a childs diet. Obesity according to the author is an epidemic which is engulfing the youth of the nearly all the major countries. It is high time that this problem was taken care of. Researches have shown that majority of ...
Researchers put 16 volunteers on a controlled diet, supplemented with either fructose (derived from corn) or glucose. After 10 weeks, both groups of participants had gained equal amounts of weight. Participants in the fructose group, however, showed an increase of fat cells around major organs including their hearts and livers, and also underwent metabolic changes that are precursors to heart disease and diabetes. “This is the first evidence we have that fructose increases diabetes and heart disease independently from causing simple weight gain,” lead researcher Kimber Stanhope said. “We didn’t see any of these changes in the people eating glucose.” The effect seems to occur because fructose is not broken down in the digestive system like other sugars are. Instead, it moves directly into the liver, where it interferes with that organ’s ability to process fat.
The researchers noted that over the long term, participants on the fructose diet would also have gained more weight. Health professionals agree that everyone could stand to cut back on their sugar intake. “Historically, we never consumed much sugar,” said Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina, and a health policy adviser for the U.S. government. “We’re not built to process it.”
Education is very important in the pursuit of a healthy lifestyle. As this paper has demonstrated, eating healthy and well balanced meals, and incorporating exercise into your daily routine, is a big part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Parents play a large role in the process of changing our nation’s childhood obesity problem. Children need role models that not only say eat healthy and get plenty of exercise, but also demonstrate that philosophy.
The Essay on Child Obesity 3
America has it’s share of problems just like any other country throughout the world, but there is one issue in particular that has been a growing trend for years in America. Today’s topic of issue is child obesity, this is a huge problem in America and it seems to continue to grow in numbers. Child obesity is the highlight of my research, but due to lack of time there will only be an explanation ...
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America’s kids are in big trouble
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BATTLING OBESITY; Many of today’s children are alarmingly overweight, but there are ways to combat this dangerous problem
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Obesity and Diabetes; Overweight Children an Emerging Epidemic
Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA. Atlanta: Aug 5, 2007. pg. 12
Obesity and Diabetes; Overweight Children An Emerging Epidemic
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Overweight Siblings of Children With Type 2 Diabetes Likely to Have Abnormal Blood Sugar Levels
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