Childhood Obesity: Causes, Symptoms, and Health Effects

This speech outline discusses childhood obesity, including its causes, symptoms, and health effects. It emphasizes the importance of tackling this issue to prevent chronic diseases. The outline provides information on unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, excess weight as a symptom, and the risks associated with childhood obesity.

Running head: SPEECH OUTLINE 1
Name:
Professor:
Assignment: Informative Speech Outline
Title of Presentation: Childhood Obesity
Date:
General Purpose: Inform the audience about the causes of obesity, symptoms, and the health
effects associated with obesity
Specific Purpose: Enlighten the audience on the possible ways of tackling childhood obesity
Thesis Statement: Many people are of the view that childhood obesity has no health
implication. The truth is that obesity increases the chances of children to contract chronic
infections.
1. Introduction
A. Attention getter: Biologist Gary Sacks asserts that children who experience
obesity are likely to suffer from chronic diseases in adulthood (World Health
Organization (WHO), 2018)
B. Relevance Statement: whether you like eating nice junky foods or prefer an
exercise free life, it is pragmatic to explore some personal research on the
causes, risks factors, and complications associated by obesity in children.
C. Credibility Statement: Timothy Armstrong, a children enthusiast, from WHO
Geneva Switzerland, shares more on the insights of obesity and how it can be
curtailed.

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D. Thesis Statement: Many people are of the view that childhood obesity has no
health implication. The truth is that childhood obesity increases the chances of
children to contract chronic diseases.
E. Preview Statement: I shall offer you the risk factors that expose children to
obesity, the symptoms, and the diseases it might cause.
Transition: Let me begin by one of the risk factors, unhealthy diet, which exposes children
to obesity as illustrated by Mayo Clinic( 2017).
II. Body
A. Unhealthy diet and lack of exercise are the major causes of childhood obesity.
According to Mayo Hospital superintendent, foods with high calories like baked food,
fast foods increase a child's weight. Moreover, dessert and candy drinks like juices
also cause weight gains in children. Also, children do not engage in exercise enabling
them to burn calories
1. My first priority in mitigating childhood obesity is minimizing or avoiding eating
foods rich in calories and promoting exercise in children.
B. The major symptom of obesity in children is having excess weight as compared to the
size of height.
Transition: Have you ever watched children play and observe them keenly and observe the
variations in their weights? You will determine that overweight children struggle to play
because of difficulty in breathing and lack of energy. As illustrated by Han, Lawlor and
Kimm (2016);
1. Children who suffer from obesity exhibit high weights as compared to their
counterparts.

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2. The children also experience difficulty in breathing and when undertaking basic
elementary duties.
Transition: Through reading literature about obesity in books or attending seminars by
health experts, I believe you will be resourceful in matters that pertain implications of
childhood obesity.
Being able to understand the causes of obesity and its effects can assist us to avoid the risks it
puts on the children. Childhood obesity increases the risk of contracting: (Reilly et al., 2014)
1. Asthma infections
2. Bone fractures
3. High blood pressure and high cholesterol
4. Exposes children to type 2 diabetes
5. Depression
6. Low self-esteem among others
Transition: Now that you have learned about childhood obesity in this instance, it is
pragmatic that you further do research about more causes and implications.
III. Conclusion
A. Childhood obesity is a bad infection that can be prevented. If only people could
observe a healthy diet and lifestyles, then children would not be affected by the
disease. The cost of avoiding obesity is cheaper than the cost of treating chronic
infections associated with obesity.
B. Whether you are a victim of childhood obesity or not, it is proactive that further
research is done. The World Health Organization have invested a lot of research and

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brought insights into ways of preventing and treating chronic diseases. However,
there is still a need for more energy and awareness.

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References
Han, J. C., Lawlor, D. A., & Kimm, S. Y. (2016). Childhood obesity. The lancet, 375(9727),
1737-1748.
Mayo Clinic Staff Report (2017). Childhood Obesity Retrieved from
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/childhood-obesity/symptoms-
causes/syc-20354827
Reilly, J. J., Armstrong, J., Dorosty, A. R., Emmett, P. M., Ness, A., Rogers, I., ... & Sherriff,
A. (2014). Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: cohort
study. Bmj, 330(7504), 1357.
World Health Organization. (2018). Obesity and Overweight factsheet from the WHO.
Retrieved on 30th March 2019 from
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight