Essays on Child Obesity

Child obesity is a burning issue that concerns societies more and more lately. When trying to point a finger and indicate who is responsible for the nation’s high child obesity rates, things get rather complicated. It is easy to blame governments for it; yet, nations consist of a number of different societies that all have their part of the share, like families and schools.
In order to start witnessing lower rates in child obesity it is of great necessity to change our eating habits as adults. Older and wiser people say that we teach by example and not

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Introduction

Child obesity is assuming a worrisome trend in the US. A casual observer will tell you that our children are increasingly becoming obese and unable to enjoy the life of a normal child should. Obesity is rapidly increasing across all ethnic and socio-economic groups thus straining families and the entire nations and also putting the future of America in jeopardy. In spite of opposing voices, parents, teachers and medical practitioners must emphasize strategies like regular exercise, proper diet and concerted efforts between stakeholders to combat child obesity. In this paper, I will present essential statistics of child obesity in

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