Human Resourses Managent

Human Resourses Managent

Childhood Obesity
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) childhood obesity throughout the Unites States has almost tripled since 1980. Childhood obesity can have several negative effects on a person’s health and cause serious health issues such as diabetes, hypertension, breathing problems, sleep apnea, and social or physiological problems. Parents, schools, communities, the government, and the media together can change the stop the epidemic of childhood obesity. The main causes of childhood obesity in America are the environment, unhealthy eating habits, and lack of physical activity.
Causes of Childhood Obesity
Many factors lead to childhood obesity. These factors include unhealthy food choices, not getting enough exercise to burn the calorie intake, the environment, socioeconomic status, advertisement of unhealthy foods, and genetics. Unhealthy food choices and poor eating habits are the main contributors of childhood obesity. Parents with busy schedules often rely on fast food restaurants or pre-packaged foods because they are convenient. Although fast food may be convenient, most fast food contains high amounts of fats, sugar and sodium. Today a lot of children spend more time away from home due to school and extracurricular activities. Being away from home makes it hard to stay away from eat healthy snacks. Instead children result to snacks in vending machines. Most vending machines have unhealthy foods, for example, chips, candy, cookies, and drinks that are high in sugar. Unhealthy foods are even sold at school sporting events (i.e pizza, hamburger, hotdogs, chips, nachos, candy, and sodas).
Physical activity for children in the United Stated has been decreasing over the past couple of decades. Advancement in technology is one of the contributor’s physical inactivity and childhood obesity. Over the past decades kids use computers, video games, and television for entertainment instead of going outside and enjoying physical...