Obesity In Latino Children

Opening Statement

While reading Factors Associated With Obesity in Latino Children; A Review of the Literature I gained a much deeper understanding about what factors have greater of lesser impact in Latino children. When you first think of childhood obesity, you immediately think of the basic reasons for it, “oh the parents just don’t give them the correct food” or “the school doesn’t provide proper nutrition to our children”. While those are valid points in some cases that is merely addressing the surface of the problem. To really get a deeper understanding this article covers Obesity on all levels and has really brought some interesting points to my attention. For starters the added amount of health risks associated with obesity has been

That is the problem Michelle Obama is dealing with on a political level today. It is not any news that Mrs. Obama has been the front runner for political advocates towards public health, and childhood obesity. In 2010 she started the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act which mandated that change of nutritional value in school lunches. At the start she had the support of the majority of America, today that is not nearly the same situation. In an attempt to reform, she in turn began under nourishing by restricting what the schools can and cannot use or serve. The back lash has reached a boiling point and Mrs. Obama is to this day standing by her Act saying that “change is difficult for anyone”. When putting something that interferes with so many lives is initiated, checks and balances need to be put in place so that the quality of the food being served can be monitored to insure that it doesn’t drop to a point that the students begin to rally against your new law and

The use of behavioral science was the means of observing and testing the subjects of the study, without it we would have no way of learning the statistic and no way to determine what needs to be done and where it is needed most, these are called biostatistics. Once the statistics gathered and compared the next step is finding the areas where the problem and go there to check the overall environment health of the area and see if there are any factors there that could impact in this case the obesity rate of Latino children. Another important discipline of public health is epidemiology, which is the branch of medicine that deals with the incidence and potential control of diseases and other factors relating to health. Epidemiology is more related to the side effects of being obese as compared to the obesity itself, given that the list of effects is so alarming and extensive. The next step is the health care administration gets involved. Otherwise known as the healthcare Executives this panel of individuals specialize in managing medical practices and the physicians. This group are the ones who collect the biostatistics and evaluate the next steps that need to be taken and the approach in which these steps are