Obesity+Report

 

Childhood Obesity

Children becoming over weight is a real big problem all over the world! Do you know the National Children’s Nutrition Survey (2002, children 5-14 years of age) reported  that 21% of children in New Zealand are classified as overweight and that 9.8% as obese. This means that we really need to do something about the issue of child obesity.

There are things that we can do every day at home to help:
 * If you are looking at making a sandwich for lunch, instead of using white bread use wholemeal bread or high-fibre. By increasing the fibre content the child may feel fuller faster and not eat another slice.
 * It is best to use low fat toppings on bread such as jam, honey, banana, and tomato. Desserts should be occasional, rather than every night after dinner.
 * Try doing some fitness: Weights, press-ups, sit-ups, go for walk, try get into a new sport example, soccer, rugby, tennis, netball, swimming, BMX. Going to the gym not only helps you to lose weight but you get the opportunity to meet new people and have fun doing something different.

People become obese for lots of reasons:
 * Have no time to cook food so they get fast food.
 * Too busy and don’t have the time to exercise.
 * Don’t have the money to go out and buy food from the store then cook it.

It doesn’t help that for generations people have used food as a reward, for example “Eat all your dinner up and you can have pudding, No dinner, No pudding” or “Why don’t we all go for a nice walk and after you can all choose a yummy ice-block or ice-cream.” Children have been taught that food can be used to persuade people and that people do things for food, this can lead the child to eat food more and more as a reward leading to obesity. It doesn’t help that for generations people have used food as a reward, for example “Eat all your dinner up and you can have pudding, No dinner, No pudding” or “Why don’t we all go for a nice walk and after you can all choose a yummy ice-block or ice-cream.” Children have been taught that food can be used to persuade people and that people do things for food, this can lead the child to eat food more and more as a reward leading to obesity.

What happened to just the old fish and chips shops? Now there are heaps of fast foods in New Zealand and they all have very fatty food on their menu - chicken, burgers, nuggets, deep fried chips, ice-creams. These are just some of the fast food companies, Burger King, KFC, Mc Donald’s, Pizza Hut, Dominos, all sell food that is not good for you. Some nutritionists say a person should only eat junk food once a week, others say hardly at all or never.

People who are obese often have problems, just little things like walking to the shop, for women it can be harder to get pregnant, there’s diabetes, risk of stroke, cardiovascular disease, blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, skin problems, gallbladder disease, prostate Cancer, for woman more of a risk of breast Cancer most of these things are very scary and can be life threatening.

Obesity can affect your family, even the amount of time you spend with them, then things like having to care after you and take time off work, if you change your life it can change your familys life as well. Now if you are overweight or obese, why don’t you think and do something about it. Help yourself lose weight it will change your life by becoming healthy it will change your life!

By: Aidan

//**Miss Crawford - A great start, Aidan. I can't quite grasp the order of your report. The intro is great, but then it flicks to solutions and then to causes - I can't keep track! Try this order: Intro, Causes, Effects, Food as a reward, conclusion. Instead of using bullet points, use sentences.

 **//

Childhood Obesity

Children becoming over weight is a real big problem all over the world! Do you know the National Children’s Nutrition Survey (2002, children 5-14 years of age) reported  that 21% of children in New Zealand are classified as overweight and that 9.8% as obese. This means that we really need to do something about the issue of child obesity.

People who are obese often have problems, just little things like walking to the shop, for women it can be harder to get pregnant, there’s diabetes, risk of stroke, cardiovascular disease, blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, skin problems, gallbladder disease, prostate Cancer, for woman more of a risk of breast Cancer most of these things are very scary and can be life threatening. People become obese for lots of reasons:
 * Have no time to cook food so they get fast food.
 * Too busy and don’t have the time to exercise.
 * Don’t have the money to go out and buy food from the store then cook it.

It doesn’t help that for generations people have used food as a reward, for example “Eat all your dinner up and you can have pudding, No dinner, No pudding” or “Why don’t we all go for a nice walk and after you can all choose a yummy ice-block or ice-cream.” Children have been taught that food can be used to persuade people and that people do things for food, this can lead the child to eat food more and more as a reward leading to obesity.

What happened to just the old fish and chips shops? Now there are heaps of fast foods in New Zealand and they all have very fatty food on their menu - chicken, burgers, nuggets, deep fried chips, ice-creams. These are just some of the fast food companies, Burger King, KFC, Mc Donald’s, Pizza Hut, Dominos, all sell food that is not good for you. Some nutritionists say a person should only eat junk food once a week, others say hardly at all or never.

There are things that we can do every day at home to help:
 * If you are looking at making a sandwich for lunch, instead of using white bread use wholemeal bread or high-fibre. By increasing the fibre content the child may feel fuller faster and not eat another slice.
 * It is best to use low fat toppings on bread such as jam, honey, banana, and tomato. Desserts should be occasional, rather than every night after dinner.
 * Try doing some fitness: Weights, press-ups, sit-ups, go for walk, try get into a new sport example, soccer, rugby, tennis, netball, swimming, BMX. Going to the gym not only helps you to lose weight but you get the opportunity to meet new people and have fun doing something different.

Obesity can affect your family, even the amount of time you spend with them, then things like having to care after you and take time off work, if you change your life it can change your familys life as well. Now if you are overweight or obese, why don’t you think and do something about it. Help yourself lose weight it will change your life by becoming healthy it will change your life!

By: Aidan