Impact of Physical Activity in Preventing Obesity in Children - Systematic Review

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

ABSTRACT
Obesity among children has been found to be critically increasing within recent time,
where over weight has become increasingly one of the major health issue impacting overall well-
being. The recent analysis in research has shed light on in depth systematic review done, by
analyzing impact of obesity among children. Study further has evolved systematic analysis to be
evolving main aspects of the latest findings on impact of obesity and over weight issues among
children. The findings have also shed light on research findings, where they should be further
given proper nutritious diet which is calcium rich to be active in proper weight management.
Study has also further evolved rise, on extended parameters about recent findings in form of
secondary research findings.
There are various factors and specific working parameters, where they should be active in
physical activities and plays for proper weight management aspects for proper healthcare
management significantly. Literature in research has also shed light on new arenas of working
aspects, where increase in fast food practices among children are the main parameters leading to
increase in weight gain and obesity. The over weight issues among children, has to be monitored
and further evolved to be improvised on proper healthcare management. Furthermore, it has
been also identified that recent findings have also showcased essential need to be further evolved
on proper eating habits among children and further motivated to be active in games.

Table of Contents
TOPIC..............................................................................................................................................1
CHAPTER 1-INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................1
Topic Overview...........................................................................................................................1
Importance of topic......................................................................................................................2
Aim and objectives......................................................................................................................3
Research Question.......................................................................................................................3
CHAPTER 2- LITERATURE REVIEW.........................................................................................4
Brief background to topic question..............................................................................................4
Presence of obesity in children in UK.........................................................................................4
Impact of obesity in children.......................................................................................................6
Different ways in which obesity can be prevented or reduced in children..................................7
Importance of physical activity on children................................................................................8
Ways in which physical activity can help in preventing obesity in children...............................9
CHAPTER 3- METHODOLOGY.................................................................................................11
Systematic review and its purpose.............................................................................................11
Databases used...........................................................................................................................11
Key words or search terms........................................................................................................11
Detail PICO...............................................................................................................................12
Research type.............................................................................................................................12
Inclusion and Exclusion criteria................................................................................................12
Results included and ways in which filtration of those results were done using PRISM FLOW
DATA FORMAT.......................................................................................................................13
Articles filtered..........................................................................................................................14
Tool that will be used to critique each article............................................................................14
Result table for explanation of each article...............................................................................16
Critique and analysis of each article..........................................................................................18
Conclusion with synopsis of results..........................................................................................20
Discussion of original questions and literature review..............................................................20
DISCUSSION................................................................................................................................20

Summary....................................................................................................................................20
Connection between articles and literature review....................................................................21
Elements missing in literature that have been researched so far...............................................21
LIMITATIONS..............................................................................................................................21
Recommendations..........................................................................................................................22
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................24

TOPIC
Impact of physical activity in preventing obesity in children
CHAPTER 1-INTRODUCTION
Topic Overview
Obesity is one of the main issues in UK especially in Children (Poursafa and et. al., 2018).
This obesity directly affects growth pattern of children. It is one of the main issue among
children and is increasing drastically. In fact, it is said that one in three children comes under
category of overweight or obese children (Brown and et. al., 2019). As per recent statistics
percentage of overweight or obese children is increasing drastically. In last 5 years there was 5
percent increase in obesity in children. Due to this overall health and physical growth of children
is affected drastically. Not only this, it is also said that children living in most deprived areas
were more obese as compared to children living in least deprived areas. Due to this reason, it
becomes important for children as well as their parents to focus upon reducing excess weight in
order to come in category of healthy children.
Obesity in children is a serious problem because it can lead to serious health issues or
problems such as heart problems, diabetes, uneven growth and development of body etc. It is a
serious problem to be focused upon children in UK, this is because UK is one of those countries
in Europe that has highest rate of childhood obesity (Lee and Yoon, 2018). There are various
kinds of reasons because of which obesity in children is increased in UK. One of the main
reasons is more than 40 percent parents do not think that their children come in category of obese
children. Another reason is lifestyle of children, due to advancement in technology most of the
children are engaged in playing games on mobiles, laptops etc. as a result physical activity of
children has reduced drastically. Another reason that has been identified is that today food eating
habits. Today most of the children prefer having fast food or food items that are high in calories
and fats which makes them obese (Amin and et. al., 2018). Due to this year- by- year percentage
of obese children are increasing day by day.
Physical activity is one of the most important things which is required to be focused upon
by children in order to remain healthy and fit and for proper growth and development of children
both physically and mentally (Alman and et. al., 2021). But it is slowly reducing because of
increasing usage of advance technology that has reduced physical activity, availability of
vehicles that has reduced walking etc. of children. According to current statistics, more than 60
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percent of children spend most of their time in front of laptops, computers, television, playing
video games etc. not only this, due to extremely busy lifestyle of parents as well they do not
focus upon increasing physical activity of children and use these technological items as a source
of keeping their children busy so that they can enjoy their own lifestyle as a result overall health
of children is degrading and obesity among children is increasing (Morrisseyand et. al., 2020).
Increasing physical activities for children and indulging them within these physical
activities can directly help in reducing obesity among children. It should be first and the foremost
responsibility of parents to ensure that their children are getting engaged in any kind of physical
activity at least for 60 minutes a day so that they can remain fit and healthy, obesity among them
can reduce and growth and development of children can be improved (Murugesan and et. al.,
2018). There are many different ways in which physical activity among children can be
increased and can further help in preventing obesity in children. According to recent studies
increasing physical activity can be sufficient for prevention of onset of obesity
Importance of topic
Prevention of obesity among children is an important topic to be focused upon this is
because in last 10 years obesity among children is increasing drastically. Due to this at early age
chances of suffering from serious health issues such as diabetes, heart diseases etc. are increasing
for children. Not only this overall physical and mental development of children is also getting
affected. Due to these problems, it has become extremely important to identify ways in which
obesity among children can be controlled (Byrne, LeMay-Russell and Tanofsky-Kraff, 2019).
Physical activity is one of the best ways with the help of which prevalence of obesity among
children can be reduced. The main reason because of which this topic has been chosen is because
today due to busy life style parents do not focus upon engaging their children in any kind of
physical activities because of which prevalence of obesity among children is increasing
(Murugesan and et. al., 2018).
The amin reason because of which this topic is important to be chosen is to reduce
prevalence of obesity among children so that overall physical and mental health development of
children be enhanced and increasing suffering of children from serious diseases can be
controlled. UK is one of those countries of UK that has highest child obesity rate as a result it
further becomes even more important to reduce this rate and it can be done easily by engaging
children in physical activities (Byrne, LeMay-Russell and Tanofsky-Kraff, 2019). This study can
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