Prevention Of Childhood Obesity

According to a recent health survey, the obesity rate in adults has doubled since the 60s, and in children, has doubled since the 70s. Childhood obesity is on the rise at an alarming rate, and it is important that we identify what health issues that come along with it, and what is causing it. The government should not intervene on childhood obesity, for it’s an issue that the parents of obese children to handle.

Childhood obesity is becoming more prominent in children, and serious health risks accompany this. To start off, falling obese can have very negative impacts to one’s health. A quote from obesity.procon.org states that some impacts obesity can have on a person’s health include type 2 diabetes, certain forms of cancer, heart disease,
To begin, an article by Julie Lyons brings up a health survey from 2002 that shows that the rate of obesity in adults had raised 8 percent since 2000. Obesity is very prominent in adults, so it is very likely to be impacting children as well. Also, parents aren’t very focused on what their child is eating, and are instead focused on more serious things. Another quote from Julie Lyons’s article states this, "I've noticed for a long time, people are not very careful about what they're letting kids eat and we've got a lot of fat kids," said Kathie Moe, an elementary school teacher from Oakley, Calif., who took part in the survey. "For parents, the more pressing need right now is, 'Is my daughter pregnant? Is she attending class?'" (Lyons, 2004) Since people are more and more losing focus on what children are eating, parents are some of the main contributors to childhood obesity. Even though parenting methods are contributing to childhood obesity greatly, government intervention may also be the problem. According to Facts on File, a website serving as a database of informative articles, government officials are beginning to recognize obesity as an epidemic, and considering the devotion of more resources to handling the topic. Even though government officials are thinking that their lack of intervention has had an impact on the rise of obesity, lack of parents managing what their kids eat has still had a massive impact. Obesity has many different factors causing its application, but parenting is one of the largest contributors to the