Tag Archives: Child Obesity

Childhood Obesity : Obesity Facts on Student

Posted on April 17, 2009 by admin

childhood obesityChildhood obesity results from a combination of poor nutrition and inactivity. Researchers concluded that schools have a unique opportunity and responsibility to teach and model healthy eating and physical activity to address attitudes and behaviors that contribute to obesity. According to the Institute of Medicine, obesity prevention efforts involve a focus on the energy balance of the complex equation of calories consumed (diet) versus calorie advertisers (physical activity) is influenced by various individual and environmental factors. Therefore, successful prevention efforts must address nutrition, nutrition education, physical education and physical Read more …

Fast Food Obesity : The Addiction Habit

Posted on April 11, 2009 by admin

fast food obesitySince fast food began in 1960′s America has steadily gotten heavier, and fast food obesity becomes a common case. Today 60% of us are overweight and a full 25% are obese. Alarmingly it seems our children are not escaping the trap either. Today there has been a 40% rise in type II diabetes in children, a disease that was once known as adult onset because it did not strike until around age 50. In addition, let’s not be misled obesity causes type II diabetes.

Nevertheless maybe these are all Read more …

Fast Food Obesity : Fast Food Consumption Impact on Obesity

Posted on April 9, 2009 by admin

fast food obesityFast food obesity : fast food consumption generate obesity, obesity has become a major problem in the United States, the United Kingdom and many other parts of the world. Fast food is an integral part of life in the developed and also the developing world, and with it comes a massive increase in obesity and associated problems.

Children in the United States eat approximately five times the amount of fast food their counterparts ate in the 1980s. And Europe is not far behind them. Developing countries like China are Read more …