1. Childhood Obesity By: Randall Wright

2. Quick Facts Childhood obesity is on a steady incline, today there are more children suffering from obesity than ever before. Today nearly 20% of children are obese. Obesity is defined as having an excess amount of body fat. Overweight is defined as having excess weight for a height from fat, muscle, water or any combination of these.

3. Quick Facts Cont… In 2008 over one third of children were either obese or overweight. Overweight and obesity are caused when one consumes more calories than he or she burns off.

4. Top Ten Causes of Childhood Obesity Go to the following website and read the top causes of childhood obesity. Causes of Childhood Obesity

5. Can you think of any other causes of childhood obesity? Get with a partner and see if the two of you can come up with any other causes of childhood obesity other than the ones on the website.

6. Ways to Prevent Childhood Obesity Go to the following websites and read about the ways to prevent childhood obesity. Prevention of Childhood Obesity Ways schools can help prevent childhood obesity

7. As A Future Educator… Find a partner and try and come up with ways that you two think you would combat childhood obesity in your own schools. Would you use methods from the website? If so which ones? Do you have any different methods that you think would work in your future school?

8. References http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/childhood/problem.ht ml http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/childhood/problem.ht ml http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/obesity/facts.ht m http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/obesity/facts.ht m http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/physicalactivity/ pdf/roleofschools_obesity.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/physicalactivity/ pdf/roleofschools_obesity.pdf