Childhood Obesity: A Global Public Health Crisis Sameera Karnik‚ Amar Kanekar1 Correspondence to: Ass. Prof. Amar Kanekar‚ Department of Health Studies‚ East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania‚ East Stroudsburg‚ PA‚ USA. E‑mail: akanekar@po‑box.esu.edu Date of Submission: Sep 17‚ 2011 Date of Acceptance: Oct 27‚ 2011 How to cite this article: Karnik S‚ Kanekar A. Childhood Obesity: A Global Public Health Crisis. Int J Prev Med 2012;3:1-7. ABSTRACT Introduction: Childhood obesity
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In 2009 8.1million children under five died worldwide which means that every day more than 22‚000 children died and 2/3 of deaths‚ 5.4million‚ were due to infectious diseases (UNICEF 2010). Mass vaccination campaigns are accepted as a number one solution to the child mortality from the preventable infectious diseases. Vaccines are one of the greatest public health attainments which from people benefited throughout the last two centuries (Stern‚ Markel 2005). They are the safe guardians of both children
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Wuthering Heights- Good vs. Evil Many authors use contrasting settings in order to enhance literary work. Whether it is the sun versus the rain or Othello versus Iago‚ never has there been any opposing force similar to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights‚ creates a powerful contrast which further heightens the dynamic theme of good versus evil. Through powerful symbolism‚ abundant diction‚ and intoxicating personification‚ Bronte manipulates the mysterious
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Childhood Obesity: A New Epidemic The nature of society has changed greatly since the mid 20th century. With this change‚ the face and size of American youth has been altered. Increasing numbers of children ranging from infants to adolescents have become obese. Since the 1970’s‚ obesity in children age two to five and adolescents age 12 to 19 has more than doubled. However‚ the fact that the percentage of children between the ages of 6 and 11 who are obese has tripled is increasingly frightening
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develop their skills to their best. Studies show that early childhood intervention can help child’s academic excellence‚ progress in education‚ and behavior and labor success among other field. These programs can benefit both the children and the parents. It is designed to help children to achieve more and eliminate the factors the risk of the children of having poor product.
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Early Childhood Education Programs Early childhood education programs provide parents with an opportunity‚ the opportunity to give their child a head start in social‚ cognitive‚ and motor development. This head start can prepare a child for kindergarten and the future grade levels. According to the National Academy Press (2000) children come into the world eager to learn; the first five years of life are a time of enormous growth of linguistic‚ conceptual‚ social‚ emotional‚ and motor competence
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of Childhood Obesity In quest of finding causes‚ preventions and control of childhood obesity‚ several health professionals have participated in the studies of obesity in children and teenagers. Below is a scrutiny of some data and pieces of information from few studies and articles. In the article Identification‚ Evaluation‚ and Management of Obesity in an Academic Primary Care Center‚ O’Brien et al performed a study to find out how other health workers were dealing with childhood obesity
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Great Early Childhood Program By Juetta E. Potter A great Early Childhood program for infants‚ toddlers‚ preschoolers and school age children would be a program that participates in Kentucky’s STARS for KIDS NOW initiative. This is a one to four star rating system that recognizes centers that go “above and beyond” what licensing and regulations require. This outstanding Early Childhood program would employ only individuals who follow the NAEYC standards for Early Childhood Professionals
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4624376676 Starving Cancer With Nutrition “My grandfather was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer at the end of October in 2007 and passed away March 7‚ 2008. As soon as he was diagnosed‚ at the recommendation of a close family friend who is an MD but believes in a holistic approach‚ he met with Dr. Marc Schwartz‚ who is a nutritionist. He told my grandfather fifty percent of people fail their battle with cancer because of nutrition‚ so just by being at that meeting my grandfather was already
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INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT‚ ECONOMICS AND STRATEGIC RESEARCH GEN 1820: Health‚ Nutrition and Lifestyle PROJECT “NUTRITION COMPOSITION OF CHOCOLATE BARS ON KAZAKHSTAN MARKET” Instructor: Dr. Aliya Nurtayeva‚ C.Sc. Prepared by: ID 20091760 Arman Alikhanov Date: 26 April 2011 ALMATY‚ 2011 Introduction The purposes of this project is to collect and present the information on the nutrition composition of two chocolate bars “Mars” and “Milky
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