1ACADEMIC ESSAYPart 1: Data collection HealthmessagesWhat is the message?Source of messageand date Creator of themessage1.‘Fit, Fast and Skinny’’Questi.com, a trustedonline library andpublished onNovember 2008Lisette Burrows, NewZealand physicaleducator2.Fighting obesity in the publicschoolsPublishedinbrookings website onMarch 1, 2006Christina Paxson,Elisabet Donahue andRon Haskins3.Life changing obesity course offerschildren and families hope forchangePublished in NewZealand’s healthwebsite stuff.co.nz onNovember 18, 2017Cate Broughton4. 10 strategies to help a child maintaina healthy weightGreeatschools.orgwebsite and publishedon October 28, 2016Sarah Henry5Junk food advertising ban best wayto fight childhood obesityHealth website andpublished on July 3,2015Kim Knight6Tackling childhood obesity is moreabout than just diet and exercise Online news paperIndependent dated23rd October 2017David Morley,Professor of youthsport and physicalactivity Part 2: Critical analysis of health messages a.Explanation of kind of health messages: Childhood obesity and maintaining health of obese children is the main theme of all theselected health messages. Out of the six types of health messages, there are about four messageswhich discusses mainly about ways to maintain healthy eating and physical activity in children.However, the article by Knight (2015) targeted food advertisement ban to fight childhoodobesity. Morley (2017) also had a different message that apart from focusing on diet andexercise, increasing children’s participation in sports and play is also crucial for child

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