Childhood Obesity

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It is not a surprise to anyone when, on a nice, hot summer day, one would see little to no children outside playing like kids used to a couple years back. Nowadays, children are so into the latest technology that they have no interest in their own imagination and the nature of being outside. Childhood obesity is becoming such a problem due to parents, schools, and the media favoring such unhealthy habits. If everyone takes control and comes up with ways to alter these kid’s everyday habits, the rate will possibly go down.
The number of children and adolescents becoming obese has quadrupled within these last thirty years, making 12.5 million of them affected (Centers for Disease Control). Within the last forty years, rates for specifically six through eleven-year-old obese children have gone up 18%. If something is not done promptly, these rates will increase rapidly.
Obese children are more likely to become obese adults (American Psychological Association). Being obese is not just the only problem they are facing; they have to deal with the other consequences that accompany this factor. This includes but it not limited to: heart disease, diabetes, and some other forms of cancer (American Psychological Association).
Some people blame solely the parents, parents may solely blame schools, and schools may solely blame the government. The blame game is a never-ending cycl...

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...ir kids out for a walk, bike riding, to the park, anything more than just allowing the kids to just lye around and do nothing.
In conclusion, childhood obesity is becoming too comfortable to peoples acceptance. It is bad to the point where little action is being taken to combat this problem. There are things that people are doing that hinder the child to change the way they are and it is not even recognized that it is happening. Parents, schools, the media, the government, and everyone else in society have an important role to play when it comes to eliminating this problem. The sooner it happens and the more people that get involved, the better. As long as the kids see change and they see the people they look up to changing their ways and motivating them to do the same, it is a sure way to start a long process of getting the children as healthy as they should be.

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