Childhood Obesity

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This paper acknowledges how one out of every eight children in the United States is obese, while another one in five is overweight. It looks at how this number is increasing every year at an alarming rate and how the health risks associated with obesity and being overweight are a significant cause for concern. It discusses how food, activity, and family environment impact on the likelihood of childhood obesity and looks at what can be done to improve the living habits and weight problems that plague our children today.

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"It is known that girls are at a higher risk to be obese than boys. We also know that that minorities, or African American and Hispanics, are at greater risk for obesity in childhood than their white counterparts. What does it mean to be obese? The general definition is a condition of excess body weight. Clinically in the medical field it is defined as a Body Mass Index (BMI) exceeding 25. It also may be defined as a person or child who exceeds 10% over standard weight tables for age, height, sex and race. For the most part, children who are forty to fifty pounds greater than their ideal body weight are considered to be obese. Children are considered to be overweight when they are approximately twenty-five pounds over their ideal body weight range."

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