Category: Childhood Obesity

With a heightened focus on defending our planet from varied existential risks from potential alien invasions to break out of a zombie apocalypse, are we missing out on something critical? The world is advancing at a rapid pace and so are the challenges. Despite various threats related to technology and the environment, human health issues…

Childhood obesity is a condition in which the children are above the normal weight for their age and height. When we see chubby children, we find them really cute. But in the long term, they will look fat as they wont change their eating habits and tend to put on weight. It is found that…

Obesity has become a global epidemic over the last 30 years affecting 40 million children, below the age of five. The implications of obesity not only affect the health of an individual but also their social lives, the society around them and the overall economics of a country. Today, obesity affects 25% of Australian children,…

The popular opinion on obesity is that children and their parents arent capable or willing of taking the time and effort of cutting down on their weight. However, US News reports that doctors specializing in obesity and weight loss say certain scientific and societal factors — including genetics, the rise of processed foods that include…

School-aged children are classified as overweight or obese with a percentage of 10 around the world (Foerste et al.). Many years ago, child obesity was not really an issue that is to be argued about or discussed. Back then, children had an average weight, ate healthier food, and played outside for as long as they…

Between the years 1978 and 2004 Canadian youth aged 2 to 17 became 11% more likely to experience clinical obesity (Childhood Obesity Foundation, 2015, para. 2). Even more frightening, in 2017, 30% of youth aged 5 to 17 were overweight or obese (Tackling Obesity, 2018, para. 1). Between 40% and 70% of obese youth become…

Abstract This research is based on Childrens eating habits and their food consumption have direct relations with obesity, diabetes , cancers, hypertension and coronary heart disease. Television advertisements directly affect childrens eating habits and their food consumption. This study was conducted in order to examine television advertisements and childrens food consumption while watching television and…

Childhood obesity is a well-known health problem internationally. A major spike in cases of child obesity have been observed from the 1980s to the present day, and the World Health Organization has even declared that around 1 in 3 eleven-year-olds are overweight or obese. Behavioral, genetic, and environmental factors have been said to be causes…

Fed Up If a foreign nation was causing our children to become obese, thats going to affect their health and hurt their happiness, cause them to be depressed, have poor self-esteemif a foreign nation were doing that to our children, wed probably go to war. We would defend our families. So why do we accept…

Over the years eating disorders have become more common in people of all ages. As more and more people find themselves facing the harsh reality of eating disorders I have decided that for my research project Im going to look deeper into the causes of eating disorders and whether or not there is a link…