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America’s Children: The Ugly, Unhealthy, and Obese.
Across the United States, American children are a part of the growing number in many health factors. Numerous children are victims of a variety of health problems inflicted by the insufficiency of good nutrition and physical activity. In this new decade, fast, fatty, and sugary, food have become a trend in our society. America’s children are exposed to these foods and unfortunately take part in this diet because their chief providers, parents, present them with this unhealthy diet. Not only do they have an inadequate nutritious diet, they also dearth physical activity in their lives. As parents, they have control over what foods they bring to the household and are the key role models in their children’s lives. Parents should encourage their children to have a nutritious and active lifestyle. Overall, Parents are held responsible for their child’s health.
The amount of families eating fast-food and parents who do not encourage physical activity among their children, is at an all time high. A study made by Katie Bogue, a registered Dietitian found that on average, American families eat out four to five times a week. Another study from Overweight and Physically activity among Children: A Portrait of the States and the Nation 2005 states that a survey that 28.7 percent of children only get less than three days per week of physical activity from ages ten to seventeen, because parents let children spend too much sedentary time. These children do not get enough physical activity due to the lack of parents encouraging physical activity. This reveals a parent’s absent responsibility over their children‘s
health. They apparently are not awake by the fact that their children’s health is possibly at risk. Irresponsible parents need to get out of their deep sleep and be aware of the negative health aspects affecting their children.
Parents can pursue simple steps to prevent their children from eating unhealthy foods and encourage them to eat nutritious foods. First of all, parents can eliminate fast food, and replacing it with fresh homemade meals. A family in Valparaiso, Indianapolis, the Olson family saves about $10 to $15 dollars per meal by eating home cooked meals compared to purchasing food at fast-food restaurants. If eating out is a frequent, parents could chose healthier options at fast-food restaurants. For instance, McDonald’s offers healthy food options including salads, brewed tea, and yogurt parfaits for just $1.00 each. Parents could also purchase healthier food choices by eliminating unhealthy ones, such as ditching the Oreos and buying the 100 calorie-packs by Nabisco. Parents could also purchase a variety of fruits and vegetables, if money is an issue, frozen vegetables and fruits are much cheaper and provide equal nutrients. Buying whole-grain breads, low or non-fat yogurt, and diet soda all contribute highly to a healthier lifestyle. As their main providers for nutrition, parents can make simple changes towards their health for them and their family.
Due to the absence of physical activity in overweight and obese children, parents can inspire their children to be active. Because parents are significant role models in their children’s lives, they too need to be physically active with their children. Parents can play sports or other activities such as soccer, flag football, hide-and-go-seek, tag, bicycling and various forms of physical activity for all ages of children. Parents can even take their children out for walks around their neighborhood, or go jogging with their older children. Parents can even take the whole
family to a local city swimming pool during the summer. There are countless ways for parents and children to be physically active. Having physically active parents enhances a child’s motivation to be active themselves.
Parents are not always to blame when their children are either overweight or obese. Parents do supply moderately healthy foods and execute moderate physically activity upon their children may still be overweight or obese. Reasons for this is related to other major health factors as well. A child may have hypothyroidism, a condition in which a person has a deficiency of the thyroid hormone and is caused by an iodine deficiency, or sporadic inheritance. When someone is diagnosed with hypothyroidism, a person may experience weight gain and even become obese when this condition is handled correctly. However, hypothyroidism can be treated with medication such as Levothyroxine, which is a oral supplementation. It does not matter what factors a child has, virtually all are treatable and it is capable to treat obesity in children with these health problems.
Overall, parents are held responsible for their children’s health. While some children are diagnosed with health problems such as hypothyroidism, there is treatment and it is up to the parents to deal with their child’s
I know it is long, and some of you wont care, but those that do take the time to read, please write as much as you can on what i can change, or fix

Good essay, nice use of statistics and studies. I can’t say much except maybe you should look further into the other reasons behind obesity, as in not pre-exisiting health conditions or the familt. Responsibility of marketers? Busy lifestyle? Pressure on children to grow up faster (there have been studies to show that children are growing up faster than ever before) all of these things could be factors, and i’m sure there are more.

What is your essay attempting to address? Knowing this would help people make more accurate and informed criticisms of your work. Also, the essay isn’t that long! People are just too lazy to read!

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