Managing Childhood Obesity

This article discusses the health impacts of obesity, the role of adults in preventing childhood obesity, and the importance of adopting a healthy lifestyle. It emphasizes the need to manage childhood obesity to control obesity and reduce it in adults.

Managing Childhood Obesity
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Health impacts of obesity
 I agree with the topic that managing childhood obesity is a key to reduce obesity in adults
as obesity has become the major concern for the people
 Obesity cause a lot of damages to the health of both men and women
 The main diseases like hypertension, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, asthma,
cancer, and back pain can be caused by obesity
 Obesity can lead to the mental disorder of the adults which affects the life of the adults
 From the evidence, it has been observed that mood disorder, low self-esteem, eating
problems, interpersonal communication issues, and impaired body damage affect the
quality of the life of the persons (Simmonds, Llewellyn, Owen & Woolacott, 2016)
 It has also been stated in the research that the risk of poorer sexual health has been
increased due to the presence of obesity in men as well as women
 Management of childhood obesity is crucial to control obesity and thus, reduce obesity in
grownups
 In preventing childhood obesity, the adults played a major role which also leads to reduce
the obesity among them (Tremblay et al., 2016)
 As we know, obese children continue to be obese as adults if obesity in children is not
managed early
 Diet and lifestyle of the children are highly affected due to obesity, and it also influenced
the parents or adults
 It can be easy for the obese children to achieve healthy life if the adults adopt healthy
lifestyle
 Childhood obesity could be managed by encouraging the children to participate in the
physical activities and limit the amount of watching television (Gurnani, Birken &
Hamilton, 2015)
 I agreed with the topic because childhood obesity in not only the problem of the
individual child but also the issue of the whole family
 The habits or lifestyles of the adults can be the cause of increasing obesity in both
children and adults
 The adults as well as children required to increase their physical activities and lead a
healthy lifestyle by eating healthy diet to prevent obesity

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 The obesity in childhood lead to increase the likelihood of obesity in adults as well as
increase type 2 diabetes as well as high blood pressure (Wang, Liaukonyte & Kaiser,
2018)
 Childhood obesity persists into the life of the adults and make the life more complicated
in the future and thus, it is agreed that management of childhood obesity help in reducing
obesity in adults

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References
Gurnani, M., Birken, C., & Hamilton, J. (2015). Childhood obesity: causes, consequences, and
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Simmonds, M., Llewellyn, A., Owen, C. G., & Woolacott, N. (2016). Predicting adult obesity
from childhood obesity: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Obesity reviews, 17(2),
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Tremblay, M., Perez, A. J., Rasquinha, A. M., Avis, J. L., Morrison, K. M., Chanoine, J. P., ... &
Ball, G. D. (2016). Recommendations from parents to improve health services for
managing pediatric obesity in Canada. Academic pediatrics, 16(6), 587-593.
Wang, R., Liaukonyte, J., & Kaiser, H. M. (2018). Does Advertising Content Matter? Impacts of
Healthy Eating and Anti-Obesity Advertising on Willingness to Pay by Consumer Body
Mass Index. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 47(1), 1-31.