Childhood Obesity Research Paper Outline
Travis Dwyer
Topic: Childhood Obesity
"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." -Jim Rohn
There are so many prevalent health issues that need to be addressed in today’s society. Since children are considered to be our hope for the future, I chose to research the epidemic of childhood obesity. As an aspiring physical education teacher or as alarmed to learn that “prevalence for overweight children aged 6-11 years has almost tripled in 25 years, increasing from 6.5% to 18.8% between 1980 and 2004 (1).” Of course there are so many contributing factors to this increase in weight in today’s world. In my opinion, children spend the majority of their days being sedentary in school and often come home to play video or computer games. After …show more content…
This article would be most beneficial for new parents as well as early childhood educators. According to the article Recognizing and Preventing Childhood Obesity, “Experts have suggested that gestation to early infancy is a critical period in which physiological changes occur that greatly influence a child’s later risk for obesity (11).” I was surprised to learn that “evidence points to early infancy as one of the most critical time periods in the development of risk for obesity and chronic disease. Babies with a higher birth weight have an increased risk for future obesity (12).” The article further discusses how parents should allow their child to eat intuitively. For example, if a child pushes the bottle away do not force them to finish or to clean their plates. The doctors also discussed how watching more than two hours of television a day as well as sleeping less than 12 hours a day are contributing factors that put infants at an increased risk for childhood obesity (13). This article truly proves how important it is to teach children healthy habits from the earliest stages of
Topic: Childhood Obesity
"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." -Jim Rohn
There are so many prevalent health issues that need to be addressed in today’s society. Since children are considered to be our hope for the future, I chose to research the epidemic of childhood obesity. As an aspiring physical education teacher or as alarmed to learn that “prevalence for overweight children aged 6-11 years has almost tripled in 25 years, increasing from 6.5% to 18.8% between 1980 and 2004 (1).” Of course there are so many contributing factors to this increase in weight in today’s world. In my opinion, children spend the majority of their days being sedentary in school and often come home to play video or computer games. After …show more content…
This article would be most beneficial for new parents as well as early childhood educators. According to the article Recognizing and Preventing Childhood Obesity, “Experts have suggested that gestation to early infancy is a critical period in which physiological changes occur that greatly influence a child’s later risk for obesity (11).” I was surprised to learn that “evidence points to early infancy as one of the most critical time periods in the development of risk for obesity and chronic disease. Babies with a higher birth weight have an increased risk for future obesity (12).” The article further discusses how parents should allow their child to eat intuitively. For example, if a child pushes the bottle away do not force them to finish or to clean their plates. The doctors also discussed how watching more than two hours of television a day as well as sleeping less than 12 hours a day are contributing factors that put infants at an increased risk for childhood obesity (13). This article truly proves how important it is to teach children healthy habits from the earliest stages of