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.

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.