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Childhood Obesity

Introduction


"Living in Rochester, NY is a lady by the name of Betty. She is 17 years old and weighs 440 pounds. She has been overweight since she was 12 years old. She used to go to school, but she had to drop out because people continued to make fun of me. She suffers from depression, anxiety and agoraphobia. She hates her body so much and she wishes she could lose all this weight in a heartbeat, but she can't. Now she sits around in the house all day, and when she does go out she doesn't even get out of the car"(My story). Betty is like many of the children and teenagers across America, she suffers from obesity. The question then becomes, what can be done to solve the problem of obesity in children and youth across the nation? A solution that can be done to help solve the problem of obesity is exercise recognizing also that obesity can be influenced by the parents, one can implement the plan by three ways: developing stronger physical education classes in school, letting the parents influence by monitoring what their children eat at home, while not allowing their children and adolescents to watch excessive amounts of TV. These two strategies to fight the problem of obesity will lower the rate of obesity because they will be encouraged to do something about their weight by eating healthier an a couple of solutions can be done to help solve the problem of obesity such as: gym classes required in elementary, middle, and high schools and feeding healthier food to the students. These two strategies to fight the problem of obesity will lower the rate of obesity because they will be encouraged to do something about their weight by eating healthier and exercising in the physical education classes.

Problem

Before one can understand the fact that obesity is a problem, one has to know the precise definition of the disease. Dictionary.com, which is an online dictionary that gives precise and exact definitions to words, defines obesity as "increased body weight...