Category: Childhood Obesity

In todays society, a lot of kids no longer get involved in any type of physical activity, because of technology. There is also a big unavailability of healthy foods for families that are struggling with low income. Children also struggle with obesity because of issues from within such as low self-esteem and confidence issues which…

Childhood obesity, an ongoing disease burden in various parts of the world, is a serious medical condition where the body stores excessive body fat. It has been investigated by experts, researchers, and medical professionals because its prevalence has been increasing annually. However, plans have been implemented by governments and other institutions to aid in lessening…

Introduction Obesity in children is a global epidemic with numbers growing fast in need of action to be put in place. Different policies have been put in place by different countries worldwide touching marketing, economy, schools, etc. to reverse the climbing numbers. The purpose of this research is to determine the information data collected in…

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…

Obesity is one of the leading chronic diseases throughout the world. Obesity is the leading cause of United States mortality, disability, morbidity, and last but not least healthcare costs adding up to billions of dollars in preventable spending each year. Obesity in scientific terms is having an excess amount of adipose tissue. Adipose tissue also…

From 1971 until 1984 Michel Foucault was the working as the Chair of the History of Systems of Thought at the College de France (Ransom, 1997). Marginalized and underprivileged groups were the focus of plenty of theoretical work done by Foucault, the history of social and medical sciences as well as its implications on those…

Thinking of an epidemic, AIDS, Ebola and all kinds of incurable and widespread diseases will usually be the first examples that come to peoples mind. Yet obesity has become the new epidemic that has infected countless numbers of people from different countries, races, and social classes. Currently, the group of people that is in the…

The public health report Child obesity is a major public health concern globally. More children are becoming obese or overweight, and this increases their risk of chronic diseases such as type II diabetes, cancer, and heart disease later in adulthood. As a result, governments and health organizations across the world are making efforts to curb…

Over the past two decades, the number of obese or overweight children has doubled in number due to a number of factors (especially with technological advances on the rise). A child is considered overweight or obese when they have accumulated weight/fat that may have a negative effect on the childs health either soon in their…