Childhood Obesity

1. The Cause of Childhood
Obesity
How can children know what is in their food, if no one is
really sure?
By: Ashley Weidman

2. Childhood Obesity: An Epidemic
• Childhood obesity affects
many children.
• Media has labeled it as an
epidemic (Zieff and Veri
156).

3. Food Intake
• More fat and sugar
consumed = weight gain.
• Americans have doubled
their intake of sugar in the
last 4 decades (Fed Up).

4. https://www.nutriliving.com/infographics/childhood-obesity

5. The Problem with School Lunches
School lunches:
• Excess calories
• Excess fat
• Excess sodium

6. A Sedentary Life
• Physical Education classes are less demanding
• Children are obsessed with electronics

7. http://www.villageyouth.org/child-obesity/

8. Isn’t it all just too expensive?
• Trying to fix these big problems costs a lot of money.
• How can it be done?

9. Quote
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
–Ralph Marston

10. Works Cited
• American Heart Association. American Heart Association, Inc., 2015. Web. 22 Nov. 2015.
• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ralphmarst132966.html?src=t_motivatio
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• Fed Up. Dir. Stephanie Soechtig. Radius TWC and Atlas Films, 2014. Film.
• Granlund, Dave. “Kids less fit than parents.” Cartoon. The Cagle Post. 30 Nov. 2013.
• Granlund, Dave. “School vacation.” Cartoon. The Cagle Post. 5 June 2015.
• Moss, Michael. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. New York: Random
House Trade Paperbacks, 2013. Print.
• Nestle, Marion. Food Politics. California: University of California Press, 2002. Print.
• Oliver, Jamie. Speak Up for Better School Meals. 2015. Jamie Oliver Food Foundation.
Web. 28 November 2015.
• “Special Health Issue: Our Super-Sized Kids” Time 23 June 2008: 1. Web.