The Fight To decrease Child Obesity in America and to educate people on how to prevent it.

1. CHILD OBESITY PREVENTION
M AT T H E W E G A N
NICK LUCANIA
M AT T H E W M A L I N O W S K I
TORI PEOPLES
LOGAN PONCE
MARTELE WILSON

2. FINDING OUR STORY
• We brainstormed ideas that we all thought were important
• The one idea that everybody thought was important health and obesity
• We concentrated that goal into Childhood Obesity because it was an important
and emotional topic
• We felt an emotional and important topic would be the best way incorporate all
the Dragonfly Effect’s Framework

3. FINDING OUR STORY
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4. APPLYING THE DRAGONFLY FRAMEWORK
• Focus: Childhood Grab Attention:
Obesity Prevention • Use shocking
• Emphasis on building an statistics, pictures and
online community for videos
prevention • Tweets about health
• Different topics like: articles and studies
Bullying and
Obesity, Nutrition, and
Physical Effects of
Obesity longterm

5. APPLYING THE DRAGONFLY FRAMEWORK
• Engage: Members • Enabling Others To
share stories Act
• Dieticians and • Reading Open Forums
Pediatricians answer about Childhood
questions for members Obesity
• Members get support • Personal Stories to
from the online touch the readers heart
community • Easy to follow
• People are encouraged directions to start
to post videos about healthy lifestyles
their successes

6. TOOLS
Facebook Page
• Open Forum for Discussion
• Photos
• Wall Postings : Research and Helpful Tips
• http://www.facebook.com/pages/Child-Obesity-Prevention/197345313678198
Twitter
• Statistics about Childhood Obesity
• Re-tweets of other articles
• Follow us @NO_CHILDOBESITY

7. EXAMPLE OF RETWEET/ FB POST
• Psychological/ Bullying on Obese Children
• Children who are teased about their weight tend to have
poor body image, low self-esteem, and symptoms of
depression.
• They tend to get bullied and talked about in schools so
most of them end up missing school or skipping classes.
• Their self-esteem is low and they use food as their
comfort zone, which is usually high in fat, sugar and
calories.

8. EXAMPLE OF RETWEET/FB POST
Nutrition and Diet
• Children are consuming excessive amounts of
sodium, simple carbs (sugar), and bad fats on a
daily basis.
• Researchers have found children who eat school
lunches are 29% more likely to be obese.

9. EXAMPLE DISCUSSION TOPIC FOR FB PAGE
• How to make healthier lunches
• Simple ways for children to get active
• Setting an example for your children
• Portion control
• How to shop healthy and thrifty at the grocery
store

10. LEGACY
• An online community devoted to all
aspects of childhood obesity
• To enable other parents and
children to fight this epidemic