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Many Americans are suffering from nutrition issues. There are approximately 12.5 million children and adolescents aged 2-19 years that are obese (CDC). The proper health and nutrition for children is very critical to their growth and development. The media and its promotion of junk food is one way that affects obese children. Within this paper, I will discuss the long and short term impacts of obesity on children, their growth and development, describe a specific child who is affected by obesity, and give three ways to combat obesity that involves collaboration among schools, families, and communities.

Do you ever wonder what the main cause in the rise of obesity is? According to Daniel Weintraub writer of article, “The battle against fast food begins in the home” believes that it the children's parents that are responsible for the rise in weight and obesity in America. He believes that we are blaming the wrong people for this problem. Weintraub helps support his claims by showing us examples, stats, personal experiences and data from his research and discoveries to help us see his way. He writes this article so that he can show parents what they are doing and to inform people about this growing issue. The article is intended for parents and their kids, it’s main purpose is to help parents realize things that they can do and stop doing. And as Weintraub says, parents can then step up to the plate and do something. He is right and I do believe that parents need to do something about it, because it is a huge problem and is only getting worse as time goes on. I feel that he is right because parents are supposed to be responsible for their children and they need to teach them about good eating and exercising habits

“Parental behavioral patterns concerning shopping, cooking, eating and exercise have an important influence on a child’s energy, balance and ultimately their weight” said diet specialist, Anne Collins (“Childhood Obesity Facts”). Childhood obesity has more than tripled since the 1980’s (“Childhood Obesity Facts”). Childhood obesity often leads to obesity as an adult which can put a person at greater risks dealing with the heart, diabetes, and many other obese related diseases. People want to blame the schools and today’s technology for childhood obesity, in reality, the responsibility lies in the hands of their parents.

Ultimately, parents and advertising play a huge part in childhood obesity. Parents need to teach kids at a young age, the importance of exercising and eating right and how it will lead to a healthier lifestyle. If parents are parenting, by encouraging their children that the commercials aren’t always right and they

Many individuals do not realize it, but obesity has become a huge epidemic in today’s society. Individuals tend to ignore the growing unhealthy products around them; instead of questioning why people are gaining weight so rapidly, they enjoy the unhealthy and unsuitable substances that they are putting in their body. Some eat whatever they can find, and since they are in a certain predicaments, they have no choice but, end up doing the same thing to their children. Many have not seen it yet, but parents are feeding their children unhealthy substances. The nutrients that they are feeding them are unhealthy, and since children do not know any better, they cannot disagree with what is being provided to them, nor can they tell whether they have had enough or not. In an article “Too Much of a Good Thing” by Greg Critser. He explains how parents are partially to blame for their children 's obesity and also their children 's environments. Critser uses statistic, biological experiments, and comparisons show how child obesity has become a great problem in today’s society and that parents have much to do with it.

Daniel Weintraub in the article, “The Battle Against Fast Food Begins in the Home” argues that parents not fast food companies are to blame for kids being obese. Weintraub supports his argument by providing evidence and research that mainly focus on “...The increasing consumption of fast food and soft drinks, ...” (prgh.8) The author’s main purpose of this article was to inform and aware parents/ guardians that they need to take their own responsibility rather than blaming others for something they have control over in the home. The author writes in an informal tone towards adults with children in their possession.

Childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk. Obesity in America is a big problem that has been growing over the years. “An estimated 12.5 million children between the ages of 2 and 19 are obese, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” (Loop 2015). As the number of children being affected keeps growing, parents or guardians do not change the habits that lead their children to become obese. “Among children today, obesity is causing a broad range of health problems that previously weren’t seen until adulthood” (American Heart Association, 2014). Not only is obesity causing health problems more than before, but it also causing a big problem in America. More and more children every year become obese and it keeps growing. Even though some people believe the lifestyle of a person is not to blame for the childhood obesity problem in America, the technology, the parenting style , and the media of the outside world are huge factors that contribute to childhood obesity.

As obesity rates in Australia continue to increase and now in 2017 more than one in five school-aged children in New South Wales are being put into this category, people tend to point fingers at the fast food chains like McDonalds and KFC. However, they are not to blame as it is simply the parents who are to blame for their obese children. Child obesity is a medical condition that affects children and teenagers. It is caused generally by children not getting enough exercise and continuously eating unhealthy foods. Parents are the blame if their children are obese due to the foods and quantities they allow their children to eat, not being suitable role models with exercise and outside activities, the use of technology time allowed and over-protective

In Greg Critser’s article “Too Much of a Good Thing,” he argues that despite what many parents were taught, they have the greatest power in preventing childhood obesity and ought to take responsibility for their children’s eating habits. He explains that the rising issue of childhood obesity is often sugar-coated and downplayed, and that perpetuating this rather than tackling the issue head-on will ultimately make no progress.

The question that has been debated for years is who is responsible for the children’s weight. In the articles that where researched during this paper the parents were responsible. The reason that they were responsible was because the decisions that parent make about their family and the lifestyle that they live affects their child’s health and it can also affect their health in the future. When you move out of your parent’s house you tend to mimic things that they did such as if they always bought Tide as their laundry soap when you got out on your own you probably bought Tide. Now when you were in a pinch one time you may have tried another brand because it was cheaper but for the most part you revert back to what you know. As a parent you should want your children to be as healthy as they can be a lot of parents that where talked to while researching the subject of childhood obesity seemed to just not have the knowledge about obesity.

During adiposity, around 5 to 6 years of age, a child’s body fatness declines to a minimum before increasing into adulthood. A study conducted at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound found evidence of normal weight children with at least one overweight parent at the time of adiposity rebound, is nearly 5 times as likely to be obese as an adult. However, if both parents are obese before the child reaches adiposity rebound, there is 13 times the risk of the child becoming an obese adult. Generally recognized as genetic predispositions, the causes of excess adiopsity may affect a variety of possible physiological processes, including basal metabolic rates. Individuals with “fat phenotypes” are likely to develop adult obesity but genetic inheritance does not cause obesity alone (Whitiker).

The cause of childhood obesity is widely debated. There are some who believe childhood obesity is caused by socioeconomic factors while others believe it is caused by media marketing junk food to children. As a response to this ongoing debate, food markers, mainly fast food, try to defend themselves by blaming childhood obesity on physical inactivity and the lack of parental influence on a healthy diet. Despite what many researchers may believe, childhood obesity is caused by a combination of key factors. According to a well-written article by Erica Roth, Childhood Obesity, she along with other doctors believes that obesity could be caused by many different factors. Some may include “family history, many psychological factors, and lifestyle” (Childhood Obesity). However, the causes of childhood obesity are not limited to these life threatening factors, childhood obesity is almost always

The purpose of this statement is to express my position in regards to the ongoing issue in America of childhood obesity and whether or not parents are to blame for this ongoing trend.

In the article “Busy Parents: The Real Cause of Childhood Obesity,” the author points out the fact the as childhood obesity has tripled over the past thirty years we continue to blame the packaged food industry or what is called a sedentary lifestyle; a lifestyle with no or irregular physical activity. Author, Suzanne Venker states that those points do matter but it wouldn’t matter as much if parents were home to have a certain control on their children’s lives. The author came to the conclusion that once more and more mothers began to leave home and enter the workforce it took a big impact on the children’s eating habits. Even the first lady, Michelle Obama admits to this conclusion as she evolves her “Let’s Move Campaign.” In the next article “Childhood Obesity: Do Parents Have the Right to Point Finger?” author, Isabella Gonzalez focusing on the view that obesity can be simply caused by the influence on the people who are around them the most; the parents and also simply depression, loss of elf-esteem, and anxiety. With these points it shows that this epidemic can not only be caused by what the community meaning the lack of physical education within the school systems or even how much cheaper fast food is. This author goes on explaining hw fast food companies have nutrition labeling and the point where an individual is out of hand is when ne intakes too much of it. “These companies do not have a knife to our throats forcing us to eat their food, it is up to the consumer”

The number of obese children now exceeds 25 percent in nearly two thirds of states. The rates of obesity in America have risen in the last thirty years, costing Americans, health, happiness, money, and productivity (“Obesity Is A Serious Problem” 12). This research paper will be telling you about arguments and opposing viewpoints about a growing epidemic in teens and adults, obesity. Currently this topic is very controversial about who is to blame the kids, the parents, or the advertising companies because the cost of food is so low and the advertisers are getting a lot of views due to the kids being less active. The biggest issue in my opinion is that the parents and children are not aware of all of the consequences and health risks they