Childhood Obesity: Causes and Consequences

Running head: REFLECTIVE REPORT
Childhood obesity: causes and consequences

REFLECTIVE REPORT 2
Reflection report:
What the article/chapter is about
This reflective report is about causes and consequences of childhood obesity. It helps to develop
my nursing and technical skills. I read this article to increase my understanding on obesity. This
article also aids in declining the obesity from childhood. It also fosters my social development
skills. This article is effective for increasing the opportunities in healthcare sector.
Why you selected it
The topic (Childhood obesity: causes and consequences) is selected by me to make career in
healthcare sector. This topic is beneficial for increasing the opportunities to get higher position
within an organisation. It is also chosen by me to decline the childhood obesity (Sahoo, et. al.,
2015). This topic also directs me to increase awareness among societies about obesity.
Who might the target audience be?
The target audience would be people who have obesity disease from childhood.
How will the topic benefit the experience?
The interesting fact about this article is that it helps me (student) to develop information about
childhood obesity. In this way, I have learned that obese and overweight are prospected to
remain obese into adulthood as well as, more prospected to create the diabetes and non-
communicable illnesses like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in younger times.
I have found that environmental factors, cultural environment, and lifestyle preferences plays
fundamental roles in increasing prevalence about obesity at the global level. I have learned that
extreme sugar ingestion through soft drinks, gained portion dimension as well as, balanced
decline in substantial activity has been playing significant roles in increasing rates of obesity in
all around globe (Sahoo, et. al., 2015).

REFLECTIVE REPORT 3
Gibbs reflective model
Gibbs reflective model is used for reflecting on the selected article i.e. Childhood obesity: causes
and consequences. It is discussed as given below:
Step 1: Description
During reading in the article, I have learned that childhood obesity can extremely influence the
physical health of children, social and emotional well-being as well as, self-esteem. It is related
to deprive academic performance as well as inferior quality regarding life experienced through
child.
Step 2: Feelings
Throughout this article, I feel that that several co-morbid situations like orthopedic,
cardiovascular, neurological, renal, pulmonary, as well as, metabolic disorders is seen with
reference to obesity in childhood (Sahoo, et. al., 2015). I would like to apply this learning into
future in making career in healthcare sector.
Step 3: Evaluation
The academicians in social science may learn from this module about the ways for encouraging
the students to become an independent learner. It aids them to provide opportunities to student to
self-monitor. It is pointed out that mealtime structure is significant with facts recommending that
families, who eat collectively with, can eat higher healthy foods. In addition, consumption out
and watching TV while eating is related to higher intake of fat. This learning could be beneficial
for practitioners to assist them in childhood obesity and creating understanding about the use of
self (Sahoo, et. al., 2015).
Throughout this module, policymakers have developed their understanding that authoritative
feeding (evaluating which food are provided, permitting the child to select and offering rationale
for healthy choices) could be linked to favourable cognitions regarding healthier intake and