Preventing Childhood Obesity
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Preventing Childhood obesity in school age Children Lakeisha L. Jones Nursing 531 September 6, 2010
Abstract Childhood obesity has become a worldwide epidemic. The obesity rate among children has doubled over the past few years. The incline in the obesity rate is due to poor eating habit, media influence, lack of financial means to pay for healthier food choices, and lack of understanding about methods to prevent childhood obesity. It can be prevented if it is addressed at an early age. In an effort to decrease the number of obese children in the United States several measure need to take place through primary, secondary, and Tertiary prevention. Monitoring the proportion of overweight children was identified as one of the ten leading health indicators in Healthy People 2010.
Obesity Facts The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed a chart that tracks the weigh index of child from the age of two to the age 20 if the child fall within the 85th through the 89thercentiles they are considered over weigh. Children whose weight index is in the 95th percentile or greater are at risk of being obese. Using these criteria, children and teens are not labeled “obese” technically; they are only “at risk for being overweight.” All ethnic groups
Preventing Childhood obesity in school age Children Lakeisha L. Jones Nursing 531 September 6, 2010
Abstract Childhood obesity has become a worldwide epidemic. The obesity rate among children has doubled over the past few years. The incline in the obesity rate is due to poor eating habit, media influence, lack of financial means to pay for healthier food choices, and lack of understanding about methods to prevent childhood obesity. It can be prevented if it is addressed at an early age. In an effort to decrease the number of obese children in the United States several measure need to take place through primary, secondary, and Tertiary prevention. Monitoring the proportion of overweight children was identified as one of the ten leading health indicators in Healthy People 2010.
Obesity Facts The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed a chart that tracks the weigh index of child from the age of two to the age 20 if the child fall within the 85th through the 89thercentiles they are considered over weigh. Children whose weight index is in the 95th percentile or greater are at risk of being obese. Using these criteria, children and teens are not labeled “obese” technically; they are only “at risk for being overweight.” All ethnic groups