Child Obesity and the Media

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While I agree that there has been a great deal of attention given to childhood obesity in the media and by the government. This attention has actually done little on a large scale to actually curb the rise of the issue. I don’t feel this issue is a government issue, however I believe it has become one due to the scale the issue has risen to. Even with all that has been studied on this issue little is actually known regarding the true underlying predictors. (Flores 2013) So considering the scale of the issue we face with the childhood obesity issue I feel that not only does the government at all levels need to be involved in some way but that the U.S. adult population as a whole should be involved in order to help better secure this future generations existence.
This is an problem where, nationwide, we have communities facing how to best make their youths obesity issues diminish as they find ways to make changes regarding how to best facilitate making improvements. (Pratt 2013) Research has shown that many of our nations obese adults had their issues actually created during childhood with documented cases where the deviations from normal adipocyte size have been occurring during children’s first year of age. (Flores 2013) While we know that there is a direct connection between a sedentary lifestyle, eating habits and individuals reduction of physical activities for s variety of reasons. Research is also revealing that there are also more than behavioral issues to contend with as they find genetic and more environmental factors to be involved as well. Due to the seriousness of these issues there is a multi faceted approach that is necessary to combat our nations obesity problems. This needs to be approached with not only with a ...

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