Fed Up Documentary

The new kid on the block for female weight loss is the Baby Food Diet. This new fad diet that recently joined the bandwagon of celebrity diets that promise fast weight loss offers much to be explored. So we decided; we’ll spend some time to explore if this fast weight loss diet is really worth your time and money too! The Baby Food Diet is based on consuming nothing but Baby food, all packed in little jars. It promises a high nutritional value, making it one of the healthy diet plans, while keeping the calorie count for each meal very low.

“In the United States, the percentage of children and adolescents affected by obesity has more than tripled since the 1970s”. (CDC, 2018)” The definition of obesity is “BMI at or above the 95th percentile for children and teens of the same age and sex.”(CDC, 2018) Childhood obesity is a very scary thing. If a child is obese they are at risk for countless things later in life. Discussing the: cause of childhood obesity, the effects of childhood obesity and some preventions of childhood obesity may bring strong awareness to childhood obesity as a whole. Furthermore, the CDC says that there are three main causes of childhood obesity in the United States.

Life threatening diseases and more than 300,000 deaths per year are what the epidemic known as obesity can do to you. Obesity is an epidemic and has been recognized as a disease. Obesity has been recognized as a disease by the American Medical Association. Obesity rates are raising faster than ever. In fact, 1 in three of all Americans are obese.

The idea that “food deserts” are the leading cause of obesity is broad, complicated and somewhat paradoxical. For example, “food deserts can occur in a community when available and accessible stores fail to offer healthy, affordable food” (Source A). With the idea that food deserts are the leading cause of obesity, this broad idea states that obesity can be cured by throwing down more grocery stores and problem solved. However, as stated in source C, “We have stressed throughout the course of our work that simply plopping down a grocery store doesn't mean that these problems are instantly solved” (Source C). This counters the idea provided in source A because it opens up the idea that there are other causes to the epidemic.

Processed food is a large problem in the U.S. But what is food processing? It is the process of transforming raw agricultural products, such as grains, vegetables, meat, or milk, into end products to be sold to consumers. But fast food, sugary drinks and candy are regularly considered as the motivating forces behind America 's child obesity epidemic. What exactly is obesity?

Celina Canuto English Comp I 12/11/15 What should we eat? After a long day of work, the idea of spending time cooking a decent meal seems too exhausting to accomplish. With so little time to fit our fast paced schedule, we tend to gravitate towards a new solution of ordering quickly fixed meals. Today, a hot meal can be just a phone call away and ready to be devoured. We constantly favor other individuals to prepare our food instead of taking the initiatives ourselves, thus becoming the evident fault in the American diet; here is where a solution becomes a problem.

If we do not do something about it there will be an increased amount of deaths due to it. This cause should be treated with high regard and try to help other people that suffer from obesity before it is to late. Inform them on not only how to lose weight but also tell people who are not yet obese how to maintain a healthy lifestyle and do not become at risk to the symptoms that may lead to death or the reduction of their remaining years alive. Also make sure to keep an eye out for yourself. When you can try to home cook meals, exercise daily, and watch the amount of calories you consume so you do not end up

Obesity can lead to death, and fast food leads to obesity. Almost 300,000 people die every year from problems connected to obesity/being overweight(Scholastic). This is saying that nearly 300,000 people die each year, just from being overweight or obese. This is important because it shows how fast food leads to obesity, and obesity leads to death. Also, obesity can lead to long term health issues.

Shown fun games that encourage movement that ultimately promotes more physical activity throughout they child’s day. With help from the community grocery store and local physicians the promotion of healthy choices continued incorporate the family involvement. The effects from this study may have resulted in less obese children entering kindergarten at the beginning of the school year, but it may have also effected the families’ health as well in a positive way. With the rise of the obesity epidemic, I think that CHILE intervention should be incorporated with all levels of the education system. As children become less and less active and cheap easy meals become more accessible this education on healthy lifestyle choices and movement is valued information for all

1. Introduction The rate of childhood obesity has increased over few years. There are 41 million children in the world are overweight or at risk of obesity. Childhood obesity is a serious health problem. It cause physical ,psychological , and social problems.

The documentary “The Weight of the Nation Part One (Consequences)”, does an excellent job of depicting how severe the health consequences are in correlation to the obesity epidemic. The utmost thought-provoking data in this documentary is that 68.8% of American adults are overweight or obese. When it comes down to it, people should not be looking the other way, because the nation needs to come together and make it a priority to discover a solution. In addition, morbid obesity has outstandingly increased since 1980, which I for one find that particularly alarming. This epidemic is a concern in which ascended over the span of the last thirty years.

Children that suffer from obesity face higher risk of having social, medical and academic problems. The popularity of technology and fast food eating is causing the childhood obesity epidemic to progress at an alarming rate. Unless actions are taken, there is no chance of it slowing down. Childhood obesity in the United States has become an epidemic. There are several factors that influence obesity in children.

History, Depth, and Breadth In 2008 Healthy People 2020 introduced the leading health indicator NWS-9 Reduce the proportion of adults who are obese. This measure falls under the health topic on nutrition, physical activity and obesity. The World Health Organization describes obesity as the ‘epidemic of the 21st Century’ (Specchia et al., 2014, p. 255). The obesity rate had doubled up to 33.9% from 1980 to 2008 when the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Healthy People 2020 released their leading health indicator on adult obesity (Specchia et al., 2014, p. 255). The latest Healthy People 2020 data shows the rate up even more at 37.7% in 2013-2014 (HHS, Healthy People 2020, 2016).

HELP CHILDHOOD OBESITY Childhood obesity has gained a lot attention in recent years, according to this particular article the percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2012. Similarly, the percentage of adolescents aged 12–19 years who were obese increased from 5% to nearly 21% over the same period. >Ogden CL This is showing the poor management in kids over the year. These problems are mainly from the advertisement of fast food, lack of physical activities, and parental control is the major effects health. Obesity is a medical condition resulting from excessive fat accumulation in various body parts .The easy way to define in this case comparing body weight/height.

The contribution of each of these factors has been studied, and although genes play an important role in the regulation of body weight, the World Health Organization Consultation on Obesity concluded that behavioral and environmental factors ( sedentary lifestyles with a mixture of too much energy intake) are primarily responsible for the dramatic increase in obesity during the past two decades.