Childhood Obesity

        

The United States has the highest childhood obesity in the world.  Studies show that more than 50% of kids in America are obese! That's half of the nation!  With restaurants and fast food franchises super sizing their meals, it's having a lasting impact on the children, super-sizing them too!  Childhood obesity is probably one of the biggest problems that need to be solved in America.

         One of the biggest causes of childhood obesity is the food the children choose to eat.    Bad, junkie foods that contain high in Trans fats, saturated fats, bad oils taste good but aren't good for the body.  Without regulation of diet kids choose these kinds of food over healthy bland food. The bad junkie foods are being advertised all over magazines, and TV.  With kids surrounded by these influences they begin to fall into them, eating the bad calories. 
            Parents are also an influence on the child’s diet.  By restricting the bad calories and regulating the child’s diets.  Children are less likely to be obese. Sometimes parents are bad role models for their kids.  The parents choose to replace the good calories with bad one, thus the child follows their parents. 
           
            Some families are financially incapable of always buying healthy foods.  The bad calories are cheaper than the good calories so if there are a lot of kids to feed you would want to buy the cheap affordable ones. 
            Often it’s not only the kid’s diet that makes them obese, being active and staying active is another reason for obesity.  Kids are just not getting enough exercise every day, with that and on top of it a bad diet, results in obesity. 
            Kids also have access to sugary drinks in vending machines at school.  With some school lunches that aren’t very healthy kids still eat them because of hunger.  Recently, the school lunches has gotten better.  With the regulation passed by Michelle Obama trying to lower the obesity level, schools are serving healthier lunches.  Since kids are in school more than they are at home, regulating school lunches does help lower the levels of obesity. 
            America has the biggest problem of obesity.  Not only the adults are obese but we see a high amount of children that are also obese.  The government has pitched in to lower the levels of obesity in kids.  Parents also have to pitch in and be aware of childhood obesity and control it before they start getting all these diseases like type 2 diabetes.