UCHECHUKWU PROTASE NNAJI
Dr. Thron, Raymond
Walden University
Aspects of Environmental Health: Local to Global (PUBH - 6165 - 3) Summer Qtr.
August 11th, 2013
THE ROAD TO CURBING OBESITY AMONGST CHILDREN AND STEPS TO TAKE IN GOING ABOUT IT!!!
• Obesity is a dramatically increasing problem in
the United States. In fact, data collected in early
2010 showed that more than 23 million U.S.
children and teenagers in the age range of 2-19
years old were obese or overweight – a fourfold
increase in the last few year” (Moeller, 2011)
WHAT IS OBESITY
• Changes in environment
• Depression
• Genetic Makeup – Family Lineage – Background
• In some schools, removal of gym, recess, and,
recreation that keeps the body in motion
WHAT CAUSES OBESITY IN CHILDREN
• Lack of healthy foods to be obtained (Poor Diet) = Unhealthy eating lifestyle
• Lack of Physical Exercise at an Early Age
• Media
• Social Status
WHAT CAUSES OBESITY IN CHILDREN CONTINUATION
Check His or Her Body Mass Index (BMI)
through:
• Measurement Test
• Age
• Height
• Weight
HOW TO DETERMINE A CHILD IS OBESE
CREATING LAWS TO CURB OBESITY
• Laws against selling of junk foods
• Laws that would require more selling of healthy foods in
the schools, and eating of it in homes
• Laws that enforces restaurants, stores, in advertising the
dangers of eating unhealthy and promoting ways to eat
healthy
• Increase consumption of fruit and vegetables, as well as
legumes, whole grains, and, nuts
• Limit energy intake from total fats and shift fat consumption
away from saturated fats to unsaturated fats
• Limit the intake of sugars
• Be physically active - accumulate at least 60 minutes of
regular, moderate- to vigorous-intensity activity each day that
is developmentally appropriate. (WHO, 2013)
WHAT CAN BE DONE TO FIGHT THE CHILDHOOD OBESITY EPIDEMIC?
• Move more…. • Reduce ‘screen’-time to maximum 2 h a day • Stop the bad habit of eating in between • Financing preventive programs in at-risk
groups • Treating obese children is prevention of
later obesity • Having Intervention Programs
CURBING OBESITY: PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
• Increase the number of food retailers and restaurants with food options that are
health related
• Reducing the percentage of children who like to engage in no leisure-time
physical activity within the next 10 years
• Increase the percentage of children that engage in cardio also known as, aerobic
physical activity with the intensity being at least moderate
• Increase the Nation’s public and private elementary schools in making it, a daily
requirement for all their young ones – students to partake in daily physical
education
• Increase the percentage of elementary school districts that, allow school
recesses to be given on a regular basis
FIVE MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES IN IMPROVING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AT
AN EARLY AGE OF A CHILD THAT WOULD HELP IN CURBING OBESITY
AMONGST THEM
Hive Health Media
• American Hospital Association
• American Medical Association
• Center for Disease Control
• Community Leaders
• Community centers such as YMCA
• Get America Fit Foundation
• Governor
STAKEHOLDERS
• Guardians of a Child
• Local Department of Health
• Mayor
• Media
• National Childhood Obesity Foundation
• Public
• State Department of Health
• Teachers
STAKEHOLDERS CONTINUATION
• Social Marketing: Preventing Childhood Obesity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-45V4TdkWw
• Seven Steps to Curbing Obesity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQx8CDtFRfI
• Curbing Childhood Obesity: Framework for Action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSU-04QmP7c
• Childhood Obesity Rap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXfwJ11LbGo
VIDEOS ON CURBING OBESITY
• How to Prevent Childhood Obesity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDOXbbz-qbY
• Help Stop Childhood Obesity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyz-2DeqvXE
• CHILDHOOD OBESITY PREVENTION - FITNESS FOR KIDS: Get Fit Friday #36: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXbADt5dPDI
• Stop Childhood Obesity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbr6yCSd4hs
VIDEOS ON CURBING OBESITY CONTINUATION
• Obesity is an illness that is conflicting a lot of
people - young and old while it is steadily on the
rise. This illness is finally now being recognized
by the, American Heart Association (AMA) as a
disease. It is time now that actions and ideas
come together to find ways - solutions to curbing
this it - better yet, eradicating it in its entirety!!!!
CLOSING REMARK
• Moeller, D (2011). Environmental Health (Fourth Edition). FOOD: Food and
Health – Role of Obesity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. P. 113-114
• Tanner, L. (2012). Junk Food Laws May Help Curb Childhood Obesity: Study.
Retrieved from
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/study-junk-food-laws-may-_
n_1771352.html
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2013). Obesity, Dietary Behavior, &
Physical Activity Fact Sheets. Retrieved from http://
www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/yrbs/factsheets/obesity.htm
• Braet, C. and Winckel, MV. (2005). Curbing obesity: prevention and treatment.
European Journal of Public Health 15 (6): 561-563. doi:
10.1093/eurpub/cki216
REFERENCES:
• Marmitt, L. (2012). Adolescent Obesity. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Retrieved from
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1991/5/91.05.05.x.html
• Shape Up America (2006). Childhood Obesity Assessment Calculator.
Retrieved from http://www.shapeup.org/oap/entry.php
• Mathews, LB., Moodie, MM., Simmons, AM., Swinburn, BA. (2010). The
process evaluation of It's Your Move!, an Australian adolescent community-
based obesity prevention project. BMC Public Health;10: 448. doi:
10.1186/1471-2458-10-448
• Sharma, M. (2006). School-based interventions for childhood and adolescent
obesity. The International Association for the Study of Obesity. obesity reviews
7, 261–269. Retrieved from
http://www.children-on-the-move.ch/dateien/dokumentation/Sharma%2006%2
0school%20based%20review.pdf
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