centres have been provided an indoor physical activity‚ shade outdoors and physical activity education. Children in Australian centres had access to more fixed play equipment and spent more time outdoors than in Canadian centres (Hinkley‚ 2014). A higher percent of Canadian centres had a formal physical activity policy‚ reported children sat more frequently for 30 min or more and allowed children to watch television‚ compared with Australian centres (Hinkley‚ 2014). These findings may help to develop
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realise their child is fat when it might be obvious to other people‚ he says. According to studies‚ 75% of parents underestimated the size of an overweight child‚ while 50% underestimated the size of an obese child.
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can be very hard to do. Never have there have been so many teens and children not only overweight but obese. In some ways‚ it could be called the plague of the twenty- first century due to adolescents and teenagers indulging themselves in a plethora of food for every meal they have‚ therefore becoming overweight and morbidly obese. In the eighteen hundreds there was not a fast food place to go to unlike these days‚ so children were not obese like they are today.-(begin with a prepositional phrase)
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being overweight is not the same thing‚ although they are often perceived as being the same. Being overweight means that a person weighs too much in comparison with their height; however‚ obesity is observed by the amount of body fat a person has (Winters 44). Americans perceive being obese the same way they perceive being overweight; they see both as simply being a cosmetic problem that can be fixed with the right nutrition and diet (Hughes 72). This may be true for people that are overweight; however
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In 2014‚ Maggie Valentine‚ a 12-year-old girl‚ suffers from obesity. Ever since she was eight years old‚ she has been overweight‚ and doctors told her she was another “statistic [of obesity]”. Although she exercises six days a week (swims for four days and walks her dog on the weekends)‚ she still finds it arduous to lose weight. Valentine further explains her stance by stating‚ "I would expect that since I’m eating healthy and exercising a lot‚ that I would be able to lose more weight than I am
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health issues because it has an impact on the lives of the children at the community‚ state‚ and national levels. Moreover‚ the paper also identified the models and systems that have found use in the determination and of childhood obesity‚ along with the associated vital statistics involved‚ and management care. The research paper revealed how prevalence in childhood obesity in the state of Texas increased from 5.2% to 10.9% for children between the ages of 7 to 12 between 1970 and 1995. In an effort
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texts. “The Arabian Nights” In Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children‚ the narrator repeatedly compares his own tales of his life to Scheherazade’s‚ and mentions that he can’t "count on having even a thousand nights and a night" (page 4) in which to tell them. The Arabian Nights‚ like Midnight’s Children is an example of what might be called a self-conscious text or a Metafiction: it is a story about telling a story. Midnight’s Children contains many metaphors about the process of writing and reading
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Target Children? Have you ever been in an isle of a store and heard‚ but mom I really want this I saw it on television? This is a product of advertising. Since the late 1980’s children have emerged as a key demographic to marketers. Advertisements selling everything from the latest video game to the newest automobile are now targeted to the youth of our world. Children have buying power that sways their parents’ purchases‚ and they are the future consumer. Marketing to children is creating
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1 out of every 3 children in the United States is considered obese. That is about 25 million children in this great country of ours that are overweight. I think there are two main reasons why these 25 million children are overweight. Number one is that children aren’t eating the right foods‚ that is the main reason why there are a lot of obese children in the world today. The second reason is because these children aren’t getting enough exercise throughout the day which makes it even easier to become
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leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems” (1). It is a huge problem in America and is an epidemic that is growing to enormous proportions. “Two out of every three adults are either overweight or obese. In addition‚ one out of every three children is either overweight or obese” (2). “It causes at least 300‚000 needless deaths annually in the United States‚ and related healthcare costs top $100 billion” (3). This is an issue that not only affects our country‚ but extends
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