Childhood Obesity: Pros and Cons

Childhood obesity is a serious health issue that can have grave repercussions for a teenager’s physical and mental well-being. This article discusses the pros and cons of childhood obesity, risk factors, and how to tackle it. The health promotion model and health belief model are used to manage obesity among children and youngsters. The article also provides essential ideologies for healthcare experts and how team leaders can support and manage this work. The article concludes with references to various studies on childhood obesity.

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The pros and cons of childhood
obesity
February 25
2020

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Introduction
Childhood obesity and extra weight are important and serious well-being issues for
youngsters and their relatives. There can be grave repercussions for a teenager’s bodily and
cerebral well-being, which can carry on into maturity. The health promotion model is also
used in this assessment that is beneficial in managing the obesity among child and
youngsters. The description of health belief model will be included in this assessment.
Healthcare specialists play a vital role in assisting families to take accomplishment.
Working together with other experts and public health groups, they can inspire the overall
inhabitants by carrying entire systems methodologies to grab extra mass and decrease drivers
of extra calorie intake and inactive lifestyles.
Act through the child life course is important to influence childhood fatness and
enable positive conduct modification around intake and movement. The attention must be on
 Preconception and conceiving
 Infancy and early infantile
 Older juvenile and puberty
 Change into free maturity
By using the health promotion model, the several advantages occurred in the process
of the healthcare. The youngsters who are bulky at the teenage are likely to be bulky at
adulthood also and have a greater threat of ill health, infirmity and early demise in the
majority (Caird, 2011).
National Child Measurement Programme data concerning to primary school kids,
NHS digital conditions that:
Approximately 30 percent of kids are overheavy when they commence school, and 20
percent are over heavy when they leave school (Archibald, 2018).
Obese kid
All kids are different from other kinds in terms of shapes size color, young boys are
different from young girls and all kids grow and mature at their speed. The constant
modification and disparity can make it difficult to understand if the kid is a healthy weight or
not (Stewart, 2011). The obesity in kinds get covered by using the particular health promotion

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model that is health belief model that helps in predict the health behaviours. However, there
are chances when the kid may be at hazard of being overweight if it is shown as:
 Continuously and regularly eating the similar size diet portions as other members and
ask for extra foodstuff during the mealtimes
 Wearing the outfits made for elder kids because they fit better
 Kids who do not participate in school sports activities and keep struggling when
playing with their friends
In the given poster all the factors associated with childhood obesity are mentioned and certain
measures that need to be followed.
With the help of GP comparison of weight, whether it is healthy or not
It is the calculation of the weight according to the height of the person whether adult
or kid, body mass index drop within particular kinds which specify whether the person is
overweight or not or do have a healthy weight (Rolland-Cachera, 2011).
Experts develop special charts from the information they collected of a large number
of people of their height, weight and age this chart which is known as body mass index
centile charts (Rabbitt, 2012). This analysis shows whether the kid is skinny or overheavy in
comparison with BMIs of other kids of similar age and femininity. These charts show some
assessment which are-
If the kid's body mass index is in the top 9% of BMIs together for kids their
identifiable age and femininity, they are categorized, as overweight.
If the kid's body mass index is in the top 2% of BMIs together for kids their
identifiable and femininity, they are categorized as fat.
The health belief model provides several benefits in the process of managing obesity in child
and youngsters. The health belief model is a social psychological health behaviour change
model that explain and analyse health-related behaviours. Mainly, it is related to the uptake of
the health services. There few health committees which are working to prohibit child obesity
and they are taking certain measures to help the children such as control on trading and
publicity of unhealthy diets and giving better education regarding the diet which are
mentioned in the given poster (Sbruzzi, 2013).

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Risk factors
The foremost hazard aspects for kids, concerning the families they took birth in and
grow up, comprise:
1) Motherly well-being: approximately 58% of women of motherhood age in England
were either overheavy or fat
2) Parent well-being: kids who animate in a household where at least one paternal or
guardian is fat are more at danger of fetching fat themselves
Moreover:
The individuals or children who are fat at a young age are more likely to be fat in
adulthood and higher chances of their kids to be fat in future
Kids now days are very less active in sports and physical activities and more attracted
to junk food, which increases the chances of weight gain and poor health
Now day’s kids are more attractive towards shakes and juices, which contains extra
sugar, which is dangerous for health and that, leads to a weight gain of the kids. The National
Diet Nutrition Survey originates that sweetie drinks justified for 30% of 4 to 10-year-olds
regular sweetie consumption. Kids’ intake of extra or treated sugars suggestively overdoes
the extreme recommended equal (Ayer, 2015).
The less activeness in sports, bodily activities, and bigger inactive behaviours among
kids and early people aggravate the difficulties of deprived diet and nourishment. One out of
three children is overweight because of an unhealthy diet and not involved in the physical
activities the chart given shows all the facts regarding the obesity problem (Felső, 2017).
The health experts use the health belief model for promoting the several health services used
to manage the obesity among children and youngsters. The health-belief model gives the
proper solutions of the several health problems. The self-engagement is also included in this
model that helps in the promotion of health aspects. This is one of the important theories
used in the process of health behaviour.

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Essential ideologies for healthcare experts
As per the model, Healthcare experts and the broader public fitness personnel should
 Identify the requirements of entities, populations and inhabitants and the facilities
presented
 Reason about the capitals accessible in wellbeing and health systems
 Comprehend particular events which can avoid, protect, and endorse
Taking action
 Healthy lifestyle and weight can be achieved only when an improvement in diet and
regularly active in physical and sports activities
 Provide healthy diet charts and physical activity messages for parents, kids, and all
the young people
 Comprehend the particular events and involvements, which can support persons and
relatives to attain and keep a fit weight
 Be aware of bulk bias, and habit neutral, non-blaming, truthful verbal when
conversing weight with relatives
 Ensure that people are aware of the local fatness care trail and alert of the facilities
and sustenance obtainable in the confined system- from the NHS, local experts and volunteer
and municipal segments
 Promote breastfeeding approval and duration, the timing of outline of solid food, and
receptive nourishing practice
 Endorse and care fit home surroundings to relatives
Moreover, it is significant to:
 Inspire schools to register with the title change4 life school zone, to receive new
teacher so that they could help children in curriculum activities associated with PSHE topics,
with stretchy message plans and likable videos.
 Inspire schools to work with the National Child Measurement Programme to aware
the kids and young people the causes and disadvantages of weight gain.
 Make the parents aware of this, as they are the ones who can support their kids to lose
weight.
 Increase the activities of sports in school and aware kids about that (Casey, 2014).
 Provision school to accept healthy eating policies

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 Make sure that every school has the nursing staff and help kids who are exaggerated
by bullying.
 Awareness must be spread between school and college staff to support positive
emotional health and well-being
 Must have a discussion with young individuals and about the provision that is
accessible nearby to provision both their cerebral health and mass problems and symbol post
to rise above
 Spread awareness about certain health programs and curriculum activities in school to
meet constitutional necessities for the training of fitness education and association and sex
education
 How team leaders can support and manage this work
Work of senior head
 To notify the local administrators about native issues that either benefit or hamper
work to reduce tackling excess weight gain in kids
 Support local administrators and workers to include kids, young individual and family
members in hiring and planning facilities so they encounter the requirements of local persons
by adopting the HBM model.
 Use the health belief model in prioritizing the healthy workshops to decrease illness
absence, lower staff turnover and boost productivity- it is essential not just for productions
and staff, but for the total economy
Problems because of child obesity
There are several different problems which can be caused because of obesity these
are-
 Problems related to bones and joints
 The problem of high blood pressure
 The problem of high cholesterol
 Liver disease like fatty liver
 Sleep apnoea
In the poster, it is mentioned all the problems and diseases, which can be caused
because of obesity and heavyweight.
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There is little measure that can be taken by the people to resolve the obesity in kids,
the first one is lifestyle changes, which is a most important factor to resolve the problem of
obesity as if the kid is extremely fat or obese, they are consuming more calories than they are
utilizing. The heaviness can also tackle by using the health belief model as it manages the
overall behaviour of the health and create several changes among children and youngsters.
The person’s belief gets affected by the HBM model as the threat of illness or disease
together affect the person’s belief in the perspectives of the health behaviour (Walsh, 2015).
The daily routine necessities to change of the kid, there should be a balance in the diet of the
kid and the members should adopt their physical activities, the family members need to take
note of it as healthy eating habits and activeness (Gollust, 2013).
As per the model, the family members who work together with their kids are likely to
be more fruitful long periods because it will help the kid to make permanent changes to their
lifestyle (Mameli, 2016).
The other one is food and beverages as doctors, usually, keep the note and see what
kind of food and beverages the family is consuming, so that it helps the doctor to know that
what kind of food their kid is consuming, kids most of the times be frilly eaters and it can be
a difficulty to get them to try innovative things (Waters, 2011). In the present poster, it is
clearly shown all the causes and prevention of obesity, which is essential as there is helping
method, which needs to be followed by the parents of the children to avoid obesity in the
children (Powell, 2014). As per the model, the obesity in children and youngsters gets
reduced as per the health behaviour.
The last factor, which needs to be taken into consideration that is physical or bodily
activities as almost every kid nowadays spends on computers, mobile and watching television
rather than spending time in the playground (Moss, 2012).
Conclusion
Based on the above analysis, it can be concluded that childhood obesity is a serious
problem amongst the teenagers, Parents should ensure that the kid eat healthy and be
involved in physical activities, to remove obesity and weight gain, schools authority should
also take initiative in helping children to remove obesity bullying and mocking, etc. The
health belief model is also useful in managing the problems of obesity so the communities
use this model to promote the several health aspects. The above information includes the
description of HBM model that provide several benefits in managing health problems.

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