Food for Thought
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Food for Thought
Lindsey Scott
ENG 122
Ms. Tina Miller
June 25, 2012
Food for Thought
After researching the board topic of Childhood Obesity there are many factors to this rising problem. The effect of parent’s jobs, involvement with their children, home life, health and today’s food prices have a direct effect on the children. It has become easy for parents to put the blame on fast food and school lunch programs. Yet they are the ones with the direct connection with their child’s health. This research will show details, stats and information proving that parents are leaning on the easy way instead of adjusting to food industries prices and today’s economy. It is time for parent’s to look at themselves and use the resources that are available to help budget and plan a healthy lifestyle for the next generations. Enough is enough; parental laziness is causing innocent children to not only be teased in school, have low self-esteem, but be at risk of long term health problems.
Young children are very influential and copy what they see their parents do. Giving them microwave meals and fast food is easy for parents that are tired after work and not wanting to spend the time making a healthy meal. The number of obese children has skyrocketed. Just in preschool aged children, 1 out of 7 children are obese. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) These parents need to put aside their own needs and take responsibility in raising kids knowing how important it is to eat the right things. Since the economy has taken such a huge hit and jobs are harder to find, it is taking a toll on the children’s health. Fast food is cheap, healthy organic foods that should be eaten are outrageously priced. People have to put the nutritious value of food in the back of their mind and go off of what they can afford for that meal. “In the United States, the number of overweight children and adolescents has doubled in the last two to three decades” (Deckelbaum, 2001). Rich or...
Lindsey Scott
ENG 122
Ms. Tina Miller
June 25, 2012
Food for Thought
After researching the board topic of Childhood Obesity there are many factors to this rising problem. The effect of parent’s jobs, involvement with their children, home life, health and today’s food prices have a direct effect on the children. It has become easy for parents to put the blame on fast food and school lunch programs. Yet they are the ones with the direct connection with their child’s health. This research will show details, stats and information proving that parents are leaning on the easy way instead of adjusting to food industries prices and today’s economy. It is time for parent’s to look at themselves and use the resources that are available to help budget and plan a healthy lifestyle for the next generations. Enough is enough; parental laziness is causing innocent children to not only be teased in school, have low self-esteem, but be at risk of long term health problems.
Young children are very influential and copy what they see their parents do. Giving them microwave meals and fast food is easy for parents that are tired after work and not wanting to spend the time making a healthy meal. The number of obese children has skyrocketed. Just in preschool aged children, 1 out of 7 children are obese. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) These parents need to put aside their own needs and take responsibility in raising kids knowing how important it is to eat the right things. Since the economy has taken such a huge hit and jobs are harder to find, it is taking a toll on the children’s health. Fast food is cheap, healthy organic foods that should be eaten are outrageously priced. People have to put the nutritious value of food in the back of their mind and go off of what they can afford for that meal. “In the United States, the number of overweight children and adolescents has doubled in the last two to three decades” (Deckelbaum, 2001). Rich or...