Pictorial Health Promotion: Addressing Adolescent Obesity Risks

This assignment presents a pictorial representation of a health promotion project focused on preventing adolescent obesity. It highlights the severity of the disorder, supported by statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The project identifies key risk factors such as improper diet, physical inactivity, smoking, lack of awareness, and alcohol consumption. It also details associated health risks like cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. The pictorial suggests prevention strategies including increased physical activity, a healthy diet, reduced screen time, and adequate sleep. The assignment includes references to support the information and visual aids to convey the health message effectively.

•Statistics
Associated health risks
• As per (), severe obesity increases the blood pressure, due to which
affected individual may develop risk factor associated with
cardiovascular diseases and subsequently, the risk of high cholesterol,
high blood sugar level, strokes and other severe health complications
increases (Lister et al., 2017).
• Besides cardiovascular diseases, obesity may lead to type 1 and type 2
diabetes, due to which the quality of life decreases and patient could
become prone to severe health risks (Sanders et al., 2015).
severe but preventable disor
• As per the Australian Institute of Health and Walfare (2019), in the reports of
2014-15, every 2 in 3 individual was found to be obese and 22,700 people were
registered for weight loss surgery in that year.
• Within these, 28% were within the age limit of 13 to 19 and the rate is 9% higher
than 1995.
• It was also mentioned in the reports that majority of the adolescent obesity is
due to improper diet and lack of physical activity (Australian Institute of Health
and Walefare , 2019).
Improper diet
Smoking
Alcohol consumptionLack of awareness
Physical inactivity
Risk factor for obesity among the adolescent population
• You should be involved in physical activity and starting from low level
of activities, should upgrade yourself to moderate levels so that with
increased activity, you can overcome your sedentary lifestyle, which is
the primary reason for adolescent obesity as per Lister et al. (2017).
• Include healthy food, fruits leafy vegetables in your diet so that your
digestive system could be improved and the calorie input and output
could be regulated (Carrasco-Luna et al., 2018).
• You should not stick to the excessive screen time and reduce your
tendency to watch television as it is associated to binge eating and
drinking habits (Rogerson et al., 2016). Hence, this would help you to
overcome obesity.
• You should complete an 8 hours of sleep every day as it is observed in
the research finding of Sanders et al. (2015) that proper sleep and rest
helps to reduce the risk factors due to which obesity increases.
• These interventions would help you to develop healthy and
sustainable habits and you would be able to overcome your risk
factors that could lead to severe incidence of obesity
•Prevention strategy
•How it harms your activities
•Research findings
• While discussing the risk factors, it should be mentioned that majority
of the adolescent patients diagnosed with obesity consumes French
fries as the only source of vegetable and consumes less than 20% of
water which is required for active and fit body (Lister et al., 2017).
• More than 50% of adolescents watches television which is 45% more
than the screen time recommended for their health concerns
(Rogerson et al., 2017).
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obesity/overview
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