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Learning Plan 8
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LP8 Assignment: Child Obesity
Assess the nutritive requirements of healthy individuals throughout their lifecycle.
Directions: Write an essay describing the problem of childhood obesity and, based on your research, make recommendations for prevention and treatment.
Purpose: Review potential causes of childhood obesity and why it is on the rise. Reflect on what factors influence a child's eating behavior. What role do soft drinks and sugar snacks play in their weight status? For an overweight child, what recommendations would you make to help balance their weight with their height? After you have reflected on these questions, write a one to two page, properly formatted report, discussing these ideas and support with credible references.
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Childhood obesity
Childhood obesity is a situation where the excess body fat negatively affects the health of
the child. Obesity may be caused by many factors which often act in combination. The biggest
risk factor for a child to be obese is when his or her both parents have obesity (Lobstein, Tim,
2015). This may be viewed over the family’s environment or genetics. Also, it may due to
psychological or the child’s body type. Another cause of obesity is the binge eating. Children
have been eating foods which have more energy than the required one as prescribed by the
doctor. These lead to obese because the body energy needed on a child is mi...
