In addressing childhood obesity in Hawaii, the Action for Healthy Kids Team is “supporting schools with the implementation of local wellness policy; promoting a healthy school environment that provides students with nutritious food options and quality daily physical activity.” Hawaii encourages the community to get involved with the Action for Healthy Kids Team from making donations to becoming a member and attending the local events. Action for Healthy Kids lets you take the first step in helping to create a better environment for the youth by taking the “Every Kid Healthy Pledge” listed on the Action for Healthy Kids page or signing up to attend meetings and webinars. One specific team in Hawaii focuses mainly on informing and involving
parents and school faculty in supporting wellness in schools. Education on your body, nutrition and wellness, and how to make good healthy choices should begin early to establish a good foundation for making healthy choices for years to come. Kids are faced with making this decision at an early age in the lunch room. With emphasis put on making healthy choices obviously healthy substitutes for snacks and drinks in the school should be offered especially in the lunch room where many students make their only meal choice for the day and unfortunately for some may be having their first meal of the day. In hand with good nutrition comes physical activity. Technology’s brought many advances in the classrooms as far as teaching styles but for some it’s also brought an inactive lifestyle. Children are introduced to electronics younger and younger that may consequently take away from playtime. Hawaii holds different open health and wellness events each month to address teaching kids about wellness and nutrition, foods offered in the cafeteria and how to implement physical activity daily. Trending events are live webinars and archived webinars for anyone unable to attend live sessions. A “Well Wednesday” webinar is offered to encourage kids to make good choices in the lunch room by providing ideas for healthy tasty food in the lunch room and a “Keep Moving!” webinar is used to provide ideas for schools to ensure kids are getting there recommended 60 minutes of physical activity a day year ‘round. Hawaii uses live webinars to challenge childhood obesity offered especially for parents and schools on promoting wellness in kids. The Webinars are a great example of how schools today may teach faculty and students about way to maintain a healthy lifestyle through a current means of technology.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discuss about childhood obesity. With CDC, this research is very useful in helping others understand what overweight and obesity is. Having excess body weight for a particular height from fat, bone, muscle, water, or a combination of all is being overweight. Obesity is just having excess body fat. It states about obesity occurring to children and adolescents that has passed since 30 years. The first stage of this phenomenon starts as a person being overweight which will lead to obesity. More than one-third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese. The result for both of these terms is a caloric-imbalance which is an amount of too few calories that is consumed and is affected by many genetics, behavioral, and environmental factors. From this source CDC gives a specific estimate percentage of children aged 6–11 years that is more overly obese. In the United States in 1980 who were obese increased from 7% to nearly 18% in 2012. Furthermore over the same period, the percentage of adolescents aged 12–19 years who were obese increased from 5% to nearly 21%. Additionally, there is a list of health effects of childhood obesity and inform immediate and long-term health effects. Tips are also included here to prevent any other health problems relating to obesity. It does not clearly teach every step of how to prevent it, but giving out ideas on how to solve the problem yourself.
Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions, with the largest subpopulation being African American girls. According to the American Public Health Association (APHA), nearly 22 percent of African American girls ages 6-11 years of age are overweight. Childhood obesity is a considerable predictor of obesity in adulthood and can lead to deleterious consequences if left untreated. Improving the health needs of these vulnerable populations needs to be paramount not only for the overall wellbeing of the individual, but to avoid placing additional burden on the health care system. Health promotions such as educational programs focusing on health risk or behaviors are successful in improving health behaviors (Bellows, McMenamin, & Halpin, 2010).
From Kindergarten to 12th grade, children spend most of their time at school. School, what we adults think, is supposed to be the teachers of our children while we are at work. They feed them lunch, and possibly breakfast, five days out the week, keep them active, and teach them all about their body and health in health class. But, are they really taking care of them enough? Some schools fail to serve healthy foods, teach health class, or even provide enough time to be physically active. One in three kids are obese, that is reason enough to care about these children’s lives at school. Schools are one of the reasons that the younger generation has a fast growing obese rate.
Childhood obesity has been on the rise in the last couple of years. In the 1970’s childhood obesity was never a concern to the public until the number increased over the years. An alarming rate of 31% of all adults have been obese since they were children and the rates of childhood obesity don’t fall too behind with an 18% of children being obese. That makes almost half of obese adults and children. A child that is obese has a 70-80% higher chance of staying obese even through their adulthood if no action is taken. Childhood obesity is not something children are in control of, these children suffer from different outcomes since they can’t look after themselves and heavily rely on someone to aid them when they need it. These numbers can be drastically altered in a positive way by educating both children and parents about healthy, nutritious foods to consume, supplying schools with better lunch and healthier vending machines with healthy choices and promoting after school activities to keep children active and away from electronics.
African American and Hispanics have the leading number of obesity cases. It may be caused by the lack of knowledge about nutritional resources or lack of funds. Incorporating healthy foods and making a lifestyle change for all could decrease the deaths from cancer, diabetes and heart disease in half (Gostin, 2016). Previously I was employed at a Head Start center, where we enroll children between the ages 3 to 5. A lot of those children were overweight. Our company took actions and only served a healthy portion of food to the children. All food had to be weighted out. The company even took it a step further; they did not allow any outside food in the building. If it was a child’s birthday the only thing they would allow a parent to bring was fruit and juicy juice for the drink. We have to start early with these children so they will not fall into the same pattern as their parents. We also, held seminars after hours to educated parents on promoting healthier lifestyles for their
Where a child is thought to be suffering or likely to suffer considerable harm, the local authority is requisite under section 47 of the Children Act 1989 to make enquiries. Every Child Matters was enacted as a green paper alongside the Laming report (Laming 2003) emphasising on exploring a preventive approach pertaining to social work as opposed to reactive child protection methods. Amie Newton (4 yrs) has been brought to the hospital casualty department by her mother. On examination she is found to have a newly broken left leg. She also has an old, fading bruise at the back of her right thigh, measuring about 15cm by 1cm. She is slightly underweight and has a miserable appearance. The case study will approach its remit by exploring Furlong and Cartmel (1999)’s school of thought; their study set out to determine that many crimes are committed by adults. Amie Newton appears as a child subjected to ‘normal’ crime and victimisation of children behind closed doors according to (Brammer 2010). The study will undertake a design to explore the traditional parameters and how relevant they are to the guide of the legal framework and substantive law pertaining to social work. The study will further give in-depth analysis into Amie Newton’s family background and discusses the anti-discriminatory practice and the growing influence of the Human rights Act of 1989. As for the hypothesis posed, it will be possible to comment on the ‘Big Picture ‘approach to multi agency problem solving and the practical implications.
Childhood obesity still considered to be an endemic problem and affecting the entire nation. Many programs are already established to help solving this matter. Among established programs is the kids’ night out at the Livonia recreation center, Michigan. Four nursing students continue planning to apply Rosswurm & Larrabee model of change .This model of change will be used by the change agents as a framework to help design the change project, Smart Choices Healthy Kids. Previously, the change agents had addressed the first three steps of this model. Now, they proceed to step four and step five, which cover the design and Implementation aspects of the model by: defining the need to reduce Obesity in children as included in the PICOT question and
1) Give a brief outline of current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people.
The Healthy Kids Act was put into effect in Iowa on May 13, 2008. This Act has certain requirements and standards concerning physical activity and nutrition. The Healthy Kids Act has a good objective, but I don’t think it has made a huge impact on every student's life.
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We want to solve the problem by helping kids and adults each healthier by making healthier lifestyle choices when it comes to eating. We also want to also increase physical activity of children and adolescents. I believe with the proper diet and exercise we can help decrease the obesity issue in this country that has grown so much in the past two decades. These steps are vital to helping prevent childhood obesity and even kids who currently suffer from childhood obesity. Since the 1970’s approximately 15 percent of children and adolescents are now overweight. "Prevent Childhood Obesity-Get Your Kids Moving!" Prevent Childhood Obesity-Get Your Kids Moving!
Obesity simply put, is an excessive amount of body fat. Obesity puts children at increased risk of disease and other health-related problems. Childhood obesity is a very serious and ongoing problem-putting children on the pathway to health conditions earlier in their life such as diabetes, elevated cholesterol, hypertension. Childhood obesity also has a link to depression as well as affects the self-esteem of children and adolescent. I recently performed a community teaching on childhood obesity and will be discussing the teaching experience, observation, summary of the teaching plan, epidemiological rationale for childhood obesity, evaluation of my teaching and the community’s response to the teaching.
Founded on February 9, 2010 by First Lady Michelle Obama, the Let’s Move! campaign, seeks to be a driving force in solving the childhood obesity epidemic faced in the United States within a generation, by the year 2030 (United States, White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity [WHTFCO], 2010). As part of the Let’s Move! intervention there was a sub-intervention call the Let’s Move! Active schools that was implemented three years after the beginning of the original movement (SHAPE America, 2015). This sub-intervention sought to make changes specifically in schools, due to large amount of time children spend at school, an average of six to seven hours a day (SHAPE America, 2015). In America 17 percent of all youth, ages 2 – 19,
Educational institutions have the potential to, first and foremost, educate and assist the young people of today with making the positive, healthful choices necessary to maintain good health. Over 4,500 students have been followed in recent research studies and these “thousands of sixth graders who participated in a school-based health program were less obese by eighth grade than a group of similar children who did not, according to a new study done for the National Institutes of Health” (Rabin). Schools need to create health programs focused on assisting all children suffering from being overweight or obese. Policies such as fitness programs, nutrition classes, and healthful meals can even impact every student by creating a strong foundation and awareness of the negative, long term effects associated with practicing unhealthy habits. Although the financial expenses would be necessary, the adaption of scho...
Extracurricular Activities Keeping Kids Out of Trouble Playing sports and being involved in things within the school will benefit you in the future. Participating in activities like sports, music, clubs, etc. will help you stay out of trouble throughout high school and possibly college. Staying out of trouble for people has been a huge issue. A multitude of teenagers are known for getting into some sort of trouble.