Childhood Obesity by Ashleigh Patterson (guest author)
Introduction: In the nutrition class I teach, students are asked to respond to some questions concerning childhood obesity. One of those students, Ashleigh Patterson, has been asked to be a guest author on this blog site. The questions on childhood obesity and her responses are below. 1 . Do you think childhood obesity is a problem? I believe childhood obesity is a problem because there are not many children that exercise on a daily business. For many school-aged children, the only way for them to get their “daily” exercise is at school, and sometimes that is not always enough for them. When children only have school to rely on for their exercise, their diets begin to go downhill in a spiral. Their diets are can be connected not only to school but to how they eat at home, or in many cases not inside their home physically. Parents, when they arrive home from work sometimes declare that they are either too tired or it will take too long...