Coordinated School Health Program Analysis

School are now implementing new programs in order for children to give children a rest from sitting all day learning different material and get up and going to move their body. This all has been due to increase number of overweight children in elementary school, and the increate rates of overweight adolescents we well. In certain races it has been more than others, for example in Mexican-Americans boys there has been a twenty-five percent increase an in non-Hispanic black girls there has been a twenty-three percent increase (). Schools have addressed physical activity and nutrition through the Coordinated School Health Program (CSHP) approach. IT integrated efforts of eight mechanisms schools can do to strongly influence student health. This

ranges from health education, physical education, health services, nutrition services, counseling services, healthy school environment, health promotion for staff and family and community involvement. This helps target all the aspects that can help reduce child obesity in not only the children in school but also everyone that is involved, including adults. This model has even been accepted by most states and is being using to find statewide infrastructure to implement the CSHP’s. There area also other mechanisms schools are taking in order to give children and adolescents a greater chance in reducing their probability in obtaining obesity. Instead of selling foods like chips, sodas, ice cream, and etc. they are focusing on other alternatives. For example, sodas are no longer available in school’s vending machines; they now provide juices and water. This basically makes children have to choose from healthy option and somehow train their brain on what is good for them to drink. Schools have also gotten rid of various foods that have been known to have a negative impact on children’s health. Although it is not may not be the best idea to deprive the children from foods that they want, and basically lean them towards other healthy foods by force since they are not provided by the schools anymore, it would at least give them healthier options at school if they are not receiving them at home.
Education both parent and children that the most important thing that they have is their health should be the primary goal of health educators. The sooner people begin to take care of themselves, the sooner they will begin to see changes in their body, that will have along term positive effect on them. Because children are more susceptible to wanting to follow other children in wanting to eat junk food or enjoying high calorie food, they need help from their parents in order for them to know when it is right to eat certain foods and when enough has been enough. Parents should also learn that although they love their children want to provide for them everything that they want; it is not always the best idea. Having home cooked meals where there can actually be a moderation of how much certain things are used in a meal, is much better that going to a fast food restaurant that can have high sodium, cholesterol and raise the probability of clogged arteries. Parents can prevent the chances of their children developing type 2 diabetes by preventing their children of becoming overweight. They can place them in sports, that way fro a child it does not seem as if they are forced to exercise, rather they are given the option to join a club with other children that are interested in the same thing as them. Also giving them a scenes of partnership with other children so that they could learn that they sometimes need to work with others and that they can not always do something on their own.
Overall obesity is the cause of poor eating habits that have been passed down from child to parent. It is not always the father or mothers intention to teach their child things that may have a negative effect of their health but long-term behaviors are usually learned from an adult during the learning period of childhood. This is why it is very important for parents to teach children proper, or healthier forms of eating during those years so that those behaviors will end up benefiting them instead of causing them to have complications. Although some parents may initially not see that they are not doing a good service to their children by not teaching them that certain foods in excess are bad for them, there is always the option of them attempting to change their child’s life style once they see that it’s in unhealthy for them. Usually an overall change in the way a family eats is most effective, since not only the child is being affected but everyone in the household as well.
Once someone realizes that they need to make a change in their life, the process that follow are much easier to achieve. For example, someone that comprehends they are not in the best health condition possible and want to change their life style will have a much easier time accomplishing their goal compared to someone that is upset because they are told by a health care physician they need to change the way they eat. People that are willing to comply and help themselves, usually have a much easier time telling and helping others that they care about make a change as well. Although sometime telling others that they need to change their eating habits may not be the most effective way of learning or wanting to change, it still sparks an idea to some and brings concern enough placing them in the contemplation part of the Transtheoretical Model, giving them the option to take action or not.
Behaviors that are not changed and are transitioned to adulthood are the hardest to get rid of. Since they have been practice for many years, it is believed by some that, that is the way to live simply because it is what they were taught by their parents. It takes adults who have practices these behaviors a major life altering experience to want to make a change in their life. Children are the ones that model what they see and what others do. If they experience positive or negative actions by other, they will, most of the time, stick to the child. This is why health care providers have been attempting to educate children from such a young age that his or her health is important. This means that they not only need to exercise but they need to maintain a healthy and balanced meal choice throughout their life, while still enjoying other foods as well.
There have been many studies and reports that have caused the drastic realization that children’s health now is the bridge to a better future for them as adults.

Because of the increase rates of child obesity, being overweight, diabetes, and other health problems related to weight, people have noticed that there needs to be a change. Institutions that are involved in the development and education of children have been the main target for health care promoters. Since that is the only place other than their home that children spend most of the time in, aiming a focus in education children from there, as well as the adults, is the easiest and most effective form of making a change in their lives. While, there have been some speculation that it does not make a difference because children will still develop the same habits as their parents, it is still a good form of combat against childhood obesity. Although their eating patterns might not change at least they are being provided with information on to how to alter poor nutritional conducts or given some physical activity time to at least get their body moving and burning some of the foods that can cause them to become

sluggish.
Since children are the future, it is important to take care of them now and prevent future complication in their health instead of having to cure them later on in life.

Not only is it a problem for the people being affected but also health care providers, since it is something that can be stopped, money spent on trying to help someone lower their cholesterol or balance their weight could be used for something else. There have been many measured used to aid people into knowing how to maintain a healthy life without the use of having to get rid of all the foods that they want to eat. Though it may be hard to change an already developed behavior from children, it never to late to correct it once as an adult. Exercise is also a key component in preventing obesity in children. Not only does it allows them to move their to regulate their weight in order for then not to become overweight, it reduces level of stress, increases level of self control, prevent diabetes, decreases cancer risk, help sleep better, prevents high blood pressure, improves heart and lung function, and amongst many more things. This does not mean that children need to be enrolled in a gym and begin doing intense cardio everyday, they can take walks to the park, stairs instead of elevators, join a club, or enter a spot, amongst a few things. Children are becoming so use to being motionless because of all the new technology invented used to entertain someone that they can spend hours sitting in a chair or

laying in their bed not doing anything. Obesity has become a huge health problem for children today, learning to change their eating behaviors in order for them to understand and practice a healthy for of lifestyle could be the difference from them living a happy normal life to one spend with constant doctor appointments.