Preventing Obesity and Drug Abuse

Paper Summary:

The paper examines childhood obesity and how it has been associated with the increased use of technology such as television and computer use. The writer asserts that to create a change in our culture there must be a change in the manner in which children are taught about healthy choices. Interventions for children with regard to media viewing and for adolescents in regard to drug and alcohol prevention programs are proposed in the paper.

From the Paper:

"The environment in which we live is clearly a conglomeration of many cultures and yet there are also pervasive cultural issues that cross cultural boundaries and can be determined to be shared by all in the American culture. There are two such issues that reign supreme as causing the greatest human concern for health and suffering. Disease is more often caused by these two issues than any others in the human population. These two disturbing American cultural experiences are obesity, caused by a sedentary lifestyle and a fundamental failure to eat healthy and drug and alcohol abuse (both illicit and legal), not culturally specific but a broad American cultural problem that causes disease and lack of overall health."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Anderson, Patricia M., and Kristin F. Butcher. "Childhood Obesity: Trends and Potential Causes." The Future of Children 16.1 (2006): 19.
• Benson, P. L., Leffert, N., Scales, P. C., & Blyth, D. A. (1998). Beyond the "Village" Rhetoric: Creating Healthy Communities for Children and Adolescents. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2(3), 138-159.
• Caprio, Sonia. "Treating Child Obesity and Associated Medical Conditions." The Future of Children 16.1 (2006): 209.
• Cawley, John. "Markets and Childhood Obesity Policy." The Future of Children 16.1 (2006): 69.
• Christakis, Dimitri A., Michelle M. Garrison, and Frederick J. Zimmerman. "Television Viewing in Child Care Programs: A National Survey." Communication Reports 19.2 (2006): 111.

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