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.
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