Obesity of School-aged children in urban area in China

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Part1
The literature search
The PubMed Database was used to search the topic for this policy plan combining nutritional epidemiological methods. Key search terms included: school age children* AND obesity*, school aged children* AND obesity* AND china*, urban China AND obesity* AND child*, school aged children AND risk factor AND overweight AND china*, There were258, 141 and 77 results respectively. Limits including: English, free full text available, publication date 10 years, and child: 7-13 years. In addition, articles which survey big city in china will be priority.

Part2
Introduction
Background
Obesity is chronic metabolic disease. It character is the excess body fat has accumulated in human body. This kind of issue was happened in people in developed countries. However, with development of economy, people in developing countries are suffering this issue as well.

Topic and Subgroup
Nowadays, children obesity becomes a public health issue in the world. China as largest population country has a significant increase trend in children obesity especially in urban area. The reasons are not only the economic development but also the traditional culture in China. This article will focus on school-aged children obesity in urban China. Considering the national condition in China, the school-aged children are age between 7 to 13 years old children.

Strategy/Approach
In order to solve this problem and control the trend of children obesity in China, a social behavior approach which called “establishing community kitchen to support nutrition, health and community engagement” will be proposed in this policy brief. The community kitchen can educate the knowledge about health diet and teach method of make health food to citizens. This i...

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...ildren obesity can be less physical activity, unhealthy diets, family history of diabetes, unhealthy lifestyle, and the low level of maternal education.

Reading 3- Article
Xu, F& Wang, X & Ware, R. S & Tse, L. A & Wang, Z & Hong, X & Chan, E. Y & Li, J & Wang, Y. (2014) A school-based comprehensive lifestyle intervention among Chinese kids against Obesity (CLICK-Obesity) in Nanjing City, China: the baseline data. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 23(1),48-54

In this article, researcher analyse the data of questionnaires to find out the risk factors of children obesity in Nanjing. In addition, the critical thinking about the relationship between family and children illustrate that social norms and culture of china has significant contribute to children obesity. Some interventions, including classroom curriculum and lifestyle intervention project, be suggested at end of article.

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