Some solutions to my problem for this proposal paper, which is childhood obesity, would be focusing on childhood weight earlier in life even infancy, having organizations that sole purpose is to inform the public of health food and ways to maintain a healthy life style, and lowering taxes and prices of organic and high nutrient food stuffs.
My first idea, focusing on a child's weight earlier in life, would help to establish a healthy lifestyle early on and let the child's body start out getting the nutrients it needs while also maintaining a healthy metabolism. This however would have to be a choice and effort solely on the parents account. Studies have shown that obesity within the first two years of life is an indicator of obesity later and in most cases permanently in life. Seeing as how these infants cant and don't feed themselves, it is up to the parents to make the healthy choices for their child. I don't think anyone would have a problem doing this except it could possibly be out of reach in impoverished and low-income neighborhoods.
Secondly, I'm sure there are some organizations that are there to inform the people of what is healthy and what isn't, but I think, and this could maybe even be a governmental institution, some kind of project or organization needs to be brought up to have the sole purpose of helping low-income areas have the availability of healthy and inexpensive foods, while also informing all peoples of healthy food items and knowledge of nutrients and what the body needs to be at a healthy weight. I think the main objections of this would be how to spread that wide of an organization and all the funds that would required, that's why I suggested it be a federal organization that would see through the implementation of these hubs of health.
Lastly, lowering the prices of foods by lowering taxes and even subsidizing all organic foods and farms would somewhat funnel the people into health making it the most readily available and cheapest choice for food. Maybe if that isn't possible, that maybe raising taxes on fatty and calorically heavy foods. ie: fast food chains, and other cheap fattening choices. draw backs to this is no one likes taxes raised.
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Reasons
In this blog, i will be discussing my hypothesis and argument of fact. My argument is that childhood obesity should be seen and taken care of as a health risk to america's youth not just as some social agenda. Some misconceptions about childhood obesity is that it is all predetermined and genetically coded. while to a certain extent it does have something to do with genetics several studies have shown that even genetically predisposed obese children can show signs of reversal and fully reverse obesity through exercise and various other activities. I learned that there are several ways to go about fighting obesity. From various appetite suppressing drugs, to lap band surgeries to just simply better dieting and good old fashioned exercise. One study I found particularly interesting would be one that tracked over 7000 children's height weight and BMIs or, body mass indexes, and showed that children that are of a higher BMI or called obese tend to maintain their size and habits up through at least the eighth grade. This shows that the aim of obesity reversal activities should be much earlier in life than we all expected. We need to focus on even a younger age group because of the predisposition one as after already being an obese child. I do feel that I need to find a few more article or look toward a more alternative way of getting information rather than just studies and scientific experiments.
Monday, February 17, 2014
Sources of topic
My topic for this paper is childhood obesity. The research itself was relatively easy, there are many many sources on the subject, especially academic and medical journals. I was able to find many varying stances on the subject, from one article attesting to the effects and medical complications and varying problems that are included in childhood obesity, to an article claiming that the media uses childhood obesity and throw medical jargon at us to essentially "frame" the subject and reflecting it in such a tone and a light that we feel negatively towards it almost instantaneously. I didn't have to sift through too many sources, it was relatively easy to find the ones i needed.
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Childhood Obesity
Childhood obesity in America is an increasingly large problem. Over the years, obesity has grown exponentially among children and adolescents alike. Obesity is defined by extreme excess amount body fat, where overweightness is described as, an excess amount of weight due to body fat, bones, water, muscle or a combination of the four. More than one-third of Americas children under 13 are effected by obesity, with extra stress on the body, this problem can prove to detrimental to the child's health unless habits or homeostatic imbalances are changed.
- What health problems does childhood obesity present?
- Why are children more prone to obesity now than in the past?
- What are some psychological effects on an obese child?
- Is society only tolerating childhood obesity, or enabling it?
This topic is very important mostly because of the vast amount of people it affects. With as many as one-third of children being obese, and it affecting their parents as well, that's right at or more than on-third of our nations total population. Furthermore with that many people being affected obesity is one of the more pressing matters on America's conscience and should be treated as such. All of the effort to curb the rising trend of childhood obesity through children's exercise programs, this topic affects an even larger innumerable amount of people.
Childhood obesity can be a large problem, we need to ask what exactly childhood obesity entails and how to fix it.
- What health problems does childhood obesity present?
- Why are children more prone to obesity now than in the past?
- What are some psychological effects on an obese child?
- Is society only tolerating childhood obesity, or enabling it?
This topic is very important mostly because of the vast amount of people it affects. With as many as one-third of children being obese, and it affecting their parents as well, that's right at or more than on-third of our nations total population. Furthermore with that many people being affected obesity is one of the more pressing matters on America's conscience and should be treated as such. All of the effort to curb the rising trend of childhood obesity through children's exercise programs, this topic affects an even larger innumerable amount of people.
Childhood obesity can be a large problem, we need to ask what exactly childhood obesity entails and how to fix it.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
introduction
Hi, my name is Philip Sorrells. I was born in Amarillo, Texas and went to Amarillo High School, where i played various sports, football being the most prominent. I originally decided to come to WT for the highest football scholarship of that freshman class, but ended up hating the program and dissolved myself from it. I am now a cheerleader for WT, ironically enough. I thoroughly enjoy cheer leading due to that fact that it is ever changing and ever building, so many things to master that just collide and use each other as building blocks for the next thing. I've always wanted and craved things that are ever changing, because it helps to keep my interest in the subject, much like my love for the medical field and medical technologies. I was first introduced to the medical field through my mother, who is a pharmacist at the Veteran's Hospital in Amarillo, as well as my uncle, who is an orthopedic surgeon in Abilene, TX. I myself, following in the footsteps of my uncle would like to one day become an orthopedist myself and in turn have committed myself to majoring in Pre-Medicine and minoring in biology. Another thing that has become a large part of who I am, would be the Kappa Alpha Order, a fraternity on campus. After my falling out of football, many of my friends, coaches and family were severely disappointed in my choice. KA helped me find a home of brothers that accept me for who I am and not what I've accomplished.
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