Interventions for Childhood Obesity Program

Running head: INTERVENTIONS FOR CHILDHOOD OBESITY PROGRAM
INTERVENTIONS FOR CHILDHOOD OBESITY PROGRAM
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INTERVENTIONS FOR CHILDHOOD OBESITY PROGRAM
One of the most important interventions that would bring out the best benefit for the
health of the children is changes in school activities and initiatives. Developing knowledge about
obesity, its impacts on health and future complicacies should be included in the education
curriculum. Development of their knowledge would help them to be careful about the food
choices they make (Campbell et al., 2016). Secondly, the school should also promote physical
activities session where children would get the scope of being physically active and undertake
exercises for at least 30 minutes. This would help in the burning of the calories and keeping them
fit. Moreover, the school authorities should make sure that the food choices they introduce in the
canteen should be such that they would be nutrient rich and less calorigenic.
One of the other interventions would be also community based where the residential
communities can arrange for different sports sessions in the evenings after the students come
back from school. Most of the present day scenarios show that children remain more engaged in
social media, computer games, televisions and others. The increased screen time is also
contributed to lack of opportunities of the burning of calories and hence accumulation of fat
(Blake-lamb et al., 2016). Therefore, more exercise based sports session, dancing sessions and
others introduced, the parents can keep their children engaged in the activities and hence lessen
down the chances of childhood obesity.
Health education classes should be arranged by the community heads where different
nutritionists, dieticians, healthcare educators and similar other health professionals would come
as guests. They would be educating the parents along with their children in simple language
about the different foods they need to take, foods they need to avoid, and impacts of each food
on health, the future impacts that would result and others (Lobstein et al., 2015). This would be
an effective medium of spreading awareness. This would be making parents careful about the