Blog 7

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.

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.