Fast Food and Child Obesity

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I. Child Obesity

A. Does child obesity affect you later in life positively or negatively?

B. Child obesity does not let people succeed as a child because some people feel embarrassed.

II. Child obesity is when a child is over their average weight and are lacking on eating the healthy foods they need.

III. Fast Food Not The Reason?

A. Fast food has lowered calories

B. Parental Guidance

C. Poverty

IV. Twentieth Century

A. More technology

B. U.S. Department of Health Research and Improvement

C. More aware doctors

V. Lazy Children

A. No Motive to do things

B. Embarrassed

C. Made fun of for being “fat”

VI. Technology

A. Excessive screen time

B. Addictive Video Games

C. Lack of parent control on child

VII. I believe child obesity affects you positively later in life if you learn to cope with child obesity. Children cannot have a mind of their own if they cannot think for themselves. You need to take control of your life, and do not let someone else or something make decisions for you.

Childhood obesity is a problem that affects many children in the world. A question that you may ask about childhood obesity is does it affect children later in life in a positive or negative way? Childhood obesity does not let people succeed as children because some people are embarrassed. Later on in life, childhood obesity can adversely affect that person’s lifestyle and influence the types of food choices that they may make.

There has been a huge uprising in the obesity rate among children. The percentage of children who are obese has been reduced from 13.9 in the years 2003-2004 to 8.4 percent in years 2011-2012. Extended research proves that the amount of obesity has fallen as the children ge...

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