Epidemic of Obesity in the United States
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Research on the epidemic of obesity in the United States demonstrates that in the past decade, the number of adults and children classified as overweight or obese has increased drastically (Evans & Renaud, 2006). In particular, researchers have noted that at the present time, 15 percent of all children and adolescents combined are either overweight or obese. Because many overweight and obese children go on to become overweight and obsess adults there is a clear impetus for public health officials to be concerned with the recent increases in the number of overweight and obese children. At the present time, obesity costs the US more than $93 billion in healthcare costs each year and is one of the most preventable sources of disease that is currently present in the population. Thus, public health officials are now attempting to work with children to reduce the prevalence of obesity and develop a generation of healthier adults (Evans& Renaud, 2006).Despite the fact that researchers have been able to track the development and increase of obesity among children and adolescents, addressing this problem in terms of successful outcomes proves to be a pervasive challenge for most public health officials. Mo-suwan, Pongprapai, Junjana and Puetpaiboon (1998) note that, “As in adults, the maintenance of weight reduction after treatment in poor in children.
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- Strict dietary control in young children may be harmful to their linear growth and final height.
- While it is evident that a lack of exercise has been widely implicated as one of the most pertinent causes of obesity in children and adolescents, many researchers assert that diet also plays a mitigating role in the development of obesity.
- Other researchers examining the cultural impact of 'idealized' images of thinness and beauty note that obese girls show a higher rate of body dissatisfaction overall.
- With this in mind, it is helpful to consider some of the research that has been conducted with respect to the prevention of weight gain and obesity in both children and adolescents.
- Floodmark, Ohlsson, Ryden, and Sveger (1993) have also considered specific interventions for obese children.
- Control participants were given standard physical education and nutrition classes.
- Although it is reasonable to assume that the results garnered in the context of non-obese children can be applied to obese children, it seems reasonable to argue that the needs of obese children need to be measured in this context.
- Effects of a controlled trial of a school-based exercise program on the obesity indexes of preschool children.
- The intervention was applied three days a week for a total of 29.6 weeks.
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