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A 20 page paper outlining a health promotion effort targeting families in West Harlem, New York, with children under five years old for the purpose of educating parents in better nutrition thus improving children's nutrition. Other objectives include providing parents with workable techniques; build a sense of empowerment among participants; positively affect long-term health by avoiding/reducing obesity and avoiding its complications; and have fun in the process. The health promotion education and intervention program is designed to increase poor mothers' awareness of the nutritional content of common foods; lead them to make better choices for food for their families; and provide them with workable, useable techniques to alter their families' eating habits. The long-range goal of the program is to reduce obesity rates, improve nutrition and to establish healthy eating patterns that will persist into adulthood and throughout children's full adult lives. Bibliography lists 30 sources.
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30 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KShlthPromNut.rtf
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Promoting Better Nutrition Among Poor Children is a health promotion effort designed to improve the nutritional standing of children in West Harlem. Healthy People 2010 Section 19-4
specifically addresses nutrition for children, focusing on growth retardation as a result of malnutrition. This is not normally a great problem in the United States, but other nutritional deficiencies
certainly are. Without proper nutrition in the early years, childrens intelligence and immune systems can be negatively affected. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the US, paradoxically often
accompanied either by malnutrition or at least less than optimal nutrition (Olshansky and Ludwig, 2005). It has been long known that eating patterns
are established in childhood that without conscious intervention in later years persist throughout life (Healthy People 2010). Fontanarosa (1998) reports that obesitys adverse health effects are well known and
...include increased risk of hypertension, ischemic heart disease, stroke, diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidemias, as well as increased risk of some cancers ... Obesity-related conditions contribute to an estimated 300
000 deaths annually in the United States, second only to tobacco smoking as a leading cause of preventable death (p. 1866). Illustrating the
spiral effect of poor nutrition, Americas obesity epidemic now has led to the emergence of a developing diabetes epidemic as well (Mason-Chadd, 2005). The most casual assessment of where
these problems are most pronounced reveals that poor people are most at risk, and that race and ethnicity constitute a primary risk factor. Overweight "and obesity are observed in
all population groups, but obesity is particularly common among Hispanic, African American, Native American, and Pacific Islander women" (Healthy People 2010). The single
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