Children and Obesity- Lindsay Haw

Obesity is growing at an alarming rate. It is a serious issue in the United States right now, especially with children. It is causing serious health risks that need to come to an end. Parents are usually the main reason for their overweight children. Parents need to buckle down and have more discipline to their children if they want them to grow healthy, strong and happy. Obesity can cause serious health issues such as high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, bone and joint defects, shortness of breath, sleep disorders, early development, liver and gall bladder disease, depression and much more. Children deriving these health risks are limited to what normal children can do, like activities such as gym class, or playing sports at recess. It also can shorten their life. Obese children may develop serious depression for many reasons. A major reason is being ridiculed by other children who do not have weight issues. Ridiculing is very common in today’s generation and it hurts children who are overweight. They might not have as many friends as other children do and this can cause depression. They might get very lonely. In this generation parents spoil their children way too much. With fast food, video games, and all the new electronics, kids are not getting the proper food or exercise they need to grow properly. Parents try to make their kids happy. They basically give their children what ever they want just to please them. If a child is continually begging and pestering a parent to stop at Cold Stone to get some ice-cream, it is common for the parent to stop and get their child ice-cream just so they will stop pestering them. Fast food is exactly how is sounds. Parents are busy and sometimes are not able to or do not want to cook, but they know they have to feed their kids, so McDonalds or Burger King is fast, delicious to kids, and it food that gets the job done. These foods are very unhealthy and filled with calories, that should only be ate as a once in a while treat, not an everyday meal. When I was young, it was a struggle for my parents to get me inside for dinner from playing football with the neighborhood kids. Kids now a days are growing up around televisions and video games. This eliminates children from getting the daily exercise that they need to grow-up and develop in a normal and healthy way. Parents are a major factor in helping fix children and obesity. It needs to start now before it becomes worse than ever.

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