Childhood Obesity: Documentary Analysis
Overjudged, Undereducated Overfed and Undernourished a documentary showcasing the prevalence of childhood obesity. The film not only included showing the reasons why children are facing this problem but also showed hoe to combat it. The document mainly focused on what was the cause, regardless of lifestyle, diet, or weight all of those factors can be summed up into one word. Choices. People have the choice to live a healthy lifestyle, eat a healthy diet, and keep a healthy weight. Life is all about Choices, the choice of what to wear, what to say, what to do and in the case of Liam the most important was how to live a healthy life. Lifestyle is often not thought of when thinking of weight. For Liam when going through his weightless program
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Rightfully so, a diet is a key role in weight loss but the biggest factor in weight gain. Before Liam moved in with his aunt and uncle he was eating what his dad provided for him. Just as all children do they eat what their parents give them, however that does not mean you need to eat three portions of dinner and a bad lunch. The experts in the movie said that eating healthy can be done cost effectively just as eating unhealthy it is all about choices. If children decide to eat one portion of a pasta dinner that is better and healthier than eating three, if a child eats one portion of an eggplant parmesan that is healthier than eating three portions. Diet is all about balance; the word “diet” in medieval Latin actually means daily balance and somewhere humans have lost the idea of that meaning. Diet is more than just watching how much you eat as stated in the film. Diet is about what you eat, when you eat and why you eat. Are you eating because you are hungry, or because you are bored? Why are you eating that much, because you are hungry or because it was just sitting there? People need to learn self-control and Liam learned self-control after a few weeks and many a meltdown with his aunt and uncle on the Gold Coast. The what you eat is the easy part, Green is good one expert said. Of course not all healthy food is green but eat healthy and keep portions reasonable too much of anything is
Rightfully so, a diet is a key role in weight loss but the biggest factor in weight gain. Before Liam moved in with his aunt and uncle he was eating what his dad provided for him. Just as all children do they eat what their parents give them, however that does not mean you need to eat three portions of dinner and a bad lunch. The experts in the movie said that eating healthy can be done cost effectively just as eating unhealthy it is all about choices. If children decide to eat one portion of a pasta dinner that is better and healthier than eating three, if a child eats one portion of an eggplant parmesan that is healthier than eating three portions. Diet is all about balance; the word “diet” in medieval Latin actually means daily balance and somewhere humans have lost the idea of that meaning. Diet is more than just watching how much you eat as stated in the film. Diet is about what you eat, when you eat and why you eat. Are you eating because you are hungry, or because you are bored? Why are you eating that much, because you are hungry or because it was just sitting there? People need to learn self-control and Liam learned self-control after a few weeks and many a meltdown with his aunt and uncle on the Gold Coast. The what you eat is the easy part, Green is good one expert said. Of course not all healthy food is green but eat healthy and keep portions reasonable too much of anything is