Fighting Childhood Obesity
Due to our eating habits, lack of exercise and sedentary lifestyle that most people have our children are now suffering the consequences, our generation has the biggest amount of obese child and this has serious health issues. HENRY (Health, Exercise, Nutrition for the Really Young) was developed in 2007 in response to an identified need for a preventive initiative rooted in the research evidence about the risk and protective factors for child obesity (Rudolf et al, 2010).
Efforts to treat overweight children through dieting, drugs, or surgery only place these children at higher risk for ongoing health problems and serve to further stigmatize fat children. Designate an existing umbrella group, or form a new group, to address obesity prevention in early childhood, and coordinate and monitor efforts.
In one Girl Scout program, for example, girls who participated with their troops in nutrition classes, which included tasting sessions and sending foods home, were found to consume more fruits and vegetables on a regular basis. Despite these limitations, the popularity of school-based interventions is not surprising; there are many benefits to the school environment as a context for intervention programs for children.
The children will receive less personal attention and it will cause problems with some when it comes to report card time. This is one of the main reasons of childhood obesity. The association of particular risk factors with childhood obesity manifests in very different ways, depending on a child's developmental stage.
Implement a tax strategy to discourage consumption of foods and beverages that have minimal nutritional value, such as sugar sweetened beverages. Children should have safe walking and biking routes to school and other key destinations. Preventing Childhood Obesity Unfortunately because of financial and time limitations we were not able to measure any further changes in consumption of carbonated drinks, or the socioeconomic status and pubertal status of these children.