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This 10 page paper discusses obesity in childhood, how it has grown, its ramifications, and ways to prevent it, among other factors. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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It has been said that there is an epidemic of obesity in America, and that includes childhood obesity, since there are approximately 22 million overweight children under the age of
five around the world; and in the United States, the number of obese children and teens has doubled "in the last two to three decades" (Deckelbaum & Williams, 2001). This
doubling phenomenon is worldwide, "including in developing countries and regions where an increase in Westernization of behavioral and dietary lifestyles is evident" (Deckelbaum & Williams, 2001). Clearly these authors are
arguing that the Western lifestyle is one major reason for the epidemic. Comorbid conditions associated with obesity, such as high blood pressure, are found in both children and adults, and
"a higher prevalence of factors associated with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes appear as frequent comorbidities in the overweight and obese pediatric Population" (Deckelbaum & Williams, 2001). In some
patient segments, type 2 diabetes is "now the dominant form of diabetes in children and adolescents" (Deckelbaum & Williams, 2001). This is particularly troubling because obesity in childhood, and in
particular, obesity in adolescence, is a "key predictor for obesity in adulthood" (Deckelbaum & Williams, 2001). Even more depressing perhaps, for the millions of people who are constantly trying to
lose weight, if they were heavy as adolescents they are at increased risk of dying younger - even if they have subsequently lost the weight (Deckelbaum & Williams, 2001). For
these and many other reasons, this epidemic has to be stopped. What brought the problem to light? It appears that the medical and scientific community has been aware of
the obesity problem for at least the last 20 years; what has changed is that the public is now aware of it as well (Jackson, Gaudet & McDaniel, 2009). It
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