Research Paper On Childhood Obesity

Childhood Obesity: A Growing Epidemic
Obesity is a growing epidemic that has not only plummeted the state of the nation’s health and welfare but has increased the health risks of a growing majority, childhood obesity. Childhood Obesity has become a eminent problem through unhealthy eating habits passed on from parents to children at home, the prevalence of fast food restaurants at every corner resulting in a ever growing middle class, the next generation.
Childhood Obesity is as a result of poor eating habits taught to the children from their parents. The unavailability of parents to provide enriching foods for their young ones has resulted in an increase number of obese preschoolers. In a recent study by Dr. Glenn Flores, a Pediatrics and Public Health Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical school
He preludes that a cumulative study documenting racial and ethnic disparities in children’s weight states that “almost 1 in 5 American 4 year olds is obese and the rate is alarmingly higher among American Indian children, with nearly a third of them obese”. The information is considered alarming as the nation will in a few years become a “minority majority”. With the rate of obesity that now exists there is a prediction that this generation that will increase government spending in health care and become more prone to succumb preventable diseases. This increase in obesity rate in the core of a generations development is a reflection of the practices of parents who overindulge their time and effort into working and paying bills and less time in developing healthy habits eating