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Who's Responsible For Our Children's ObesityTodayshealthsite.com

Todays Health Article

December 10th, 2011

Today young children, and even very young children (3 to 5), are struggling with obesity.  The fact is that it is not only becoming apparent but it is alarming, that over one third of our youth today are obese. According to the facts!

Childhood Obesity Facts

  • Childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years.
  • The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 20% in 2008. Similarly, the percentage of adolescents aged 12–19 years who were obese increased from 5% to 18% over the same period.
  • In 2008, more than one third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese.
  • Overweight is defined as having excess body weight for a particular height from fat, muscle, bone, water, or a combination of these factors.3 Obesity is defined as having excess body fat.
  • Overweight and obesity are the result of “caloric imbalance”—too few calories expended for the amount of calories consumed—and are affected by various genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors.

Obesity, to become Controversial

Has obesity become controversial for those same children’s parents. The question is where responsibility begins and ends today. There are those who feel that it begins with their parents, others feel education needs be  improved and the food choices there, as well. More recently others have taken it upon themselves to either advocate, or issue changes, or direct actions to be taken for our children’s obesity. Perhaps their concern,  has now  brought on some influence of these present actions.

Government Actions

The  government agencies and our Health Dogs, have for several years, been sharing reports of the alarming facts about our children’s obesity, yet awareness is always present, just look around you. The parents of these children, of which these programs target upon, need not be told of their children’s obesity, but the need for understanding, help, and education about healthy food choices and exercise.  For some, medical attention is needed and nutrition understood.

For the  most part, their reasons are that they can have  influence  on others and are being informative, but taking no responsibility for our youths obesity.

Our Educational System

Parents perhaps believe that their children,who spend a good share of their young life at school, pick up many of their eating habits away from home. Yet the argument may be that they have already established their eating habits before they started school. If that were to be true. which i am inclined to agree, the influence of the eating habits here, is there is no one to tell them NO!  Also the access to processed foods, fatty foods, and soft drinks are readily available, within their grasp. Since schools are a large market for such foods, little has been done to encourage our youth to eat better. Are educators are proclaiming they are not babysitters, thus pointing back at parents responsibility.

Marketing Campaigns in the Media

Marketing in the past decade has targeted our youth in many areas of the food and drink industry and many parents believe their children have followed their ways by this type of influence. Some parents have taken action against some of the junk food giants and basically banned the sale of  their foods or adds. (McDonald’s Happy Meals) Although they may have a good view point, McDonald’s only sell what people buy and therefore who is responsible for their children showing up at their doors?

OK, Parents Responsibility

The Bottom line is…

OK, is it Parents responsibility for the child’s obesity? Some recent actions might have you in a boil if you are a  good parent and you have done everything under your power to provide a healthy child and your child is still obese. Not every person that is obese, arrives that way, by eating. Many medical conditions, genetics, and medications that lead one to become obese. There are certainly unknown factors that we have no control of and so we have evaluate our set of conditions, and go from there.

However the controversy has come into play, legal, and medical, as to what brings actions now against parents for their children being over weight.

* Taking obese children from their families has become a topic of intense debate over the past year after one high-profile pediatric obesity expert made controversial comments in the Journal of the American Medical Association advocating the practice in acute cases.

* “In severe instances of childhood obesity, removal from the home may be justifiable, from a legal standpoint, because of imminent health risks and the parents’ chronic failure to address medical problems,” Dr. David Ludwig co-wrote with Lindsey Murtagh, a lawyer and researcher at Harvard’s School of Public Health.

*A Cleveland third grader who weighed more than 200 pounds was taken from his mother after officials reportedly said she did not do enough to help the boy, who suffered from a weight-related health issue, to lose weight.

Justification of children being separated for parents action has always been upheld by the statement of the outcome…they will be better off. No evaluation as to the trauma instilled and the damage that may occur. Could this become the future discipline of our youth obesity?

Todays Health Comments

Today if know one wants to step up to the plate and take some responsibility for our children’s obesity, than their number will continue to become staggering. Along with that fact will be the enormous health conditions and medical costs that are presenting themselves already. Are the parents afraid to say no to the influences of others? Are we so  far down this path, that there may be no help for generations to come. Are many parents now becoming victims of their own neglect, because they themselves eat the same way. Will our future obesity cases for our children be settled in court? All good or all bad, ultimately  the responsibility will lie on the parents shoulders.

Further Reading

Obese Third Grader Taken From Mom, Placed in Foster Care

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Is Our Health A Forcast Of Facts GUIDLINES And LEGAL ACTIONS

 

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