Child Obesity

General Purpose: To persuade

Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to be aware and to adapt new healthy nutritional plans to their obese children, which will help them have a higher quality of life. And prevent them from having a low and unhealthy lifetime due to the many illnesses that are attributed to obesity.

Central Idea: In our hands are the necessary tools to provide a healthier life for our kids.

INTRODUCTION:

I. Attention Getter: It is important to know that over the last thirty years the percentage of overweight children in the United States has increased rapidly. The population of obese Children between the ages of 6 to 11 in the year of 1974 rated 4%, with a dramatically increased the same age group of obese children population in the year 2004 rated 19%.

II. Motivation for listening: The CDC Center For disease Control and Prevention, concluded that child obesity is an important factor that is attributed to many diseases including diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma, and insomnia just to mention a few. There are also many side effects to these diseases, for example if an obese child is having problems sleeping at night the child daytime activities aren’t as productive as a child that have a good night sleep. The child with insomnia has difficulties in concentrating at school institutes, and at home they just eat and sleep. The variety of foods and there marketing are also important factors that contributed to child obesity, because the amount of calories that are found in fast foods exceeds the amount of exercise a child performs. And the marketing misleads the people to make the wrong decisions, given priorities to their financial incomes. Parents have an important role in providing their children with healthy life styles, and preventing them from falling into the tentative propaganda of unhealthy products. Also the schools which are the child’s second home have an important role in teaching their children to maintain a good health. And promote more outside activities that will enhance the children to exercise more frequently.

III. Establishing credibility: The extensive researched that I have done in regards to the causes and the preventions of child obesity in the United States, has driven me to encourage my audience to acknowledge the problem, and to find reasonable solutions to its cause.

IV. Thesis Statement: Humans lifetime is short, so we should live it to the fullest. Obesity is a big issue for our society, because it brings many illnesses to our body. So we need to re-evaluate the importance of healthy eating by increasing awareness of the obesity epidemic in younger generations which are the future adults. Parents can begin to prevent the weight gain among their children by motivating them to eat non-fat products, and demanding them to exercise regularly.

V. Preview of speech: first I will discuss the dramatically increased of obese children in America over past years, and the different factors that contributed to this epidemic. Then I will show how the advertisement and availability of fast food restaurants prevents our society from reducing child obesity. And then I will conclude by explaining different strategies that parents could use to prevent their children from falling into the obesity rates.

Transition to the body of the speech: Let’s begin by establishing the first problem that I will discuss today.

BODY:

I. Establishing the problem: According to the National Task Force on Prevention and Treatment of obesity the term obesity is defined as an excess amount of body fat. Over the past thirty years obese children population has increased