This document discusses how to fight childhood overweight in Ecuador. It presents overweight as causing dangerous diseases in children due to lack of physical activity and unhealthy eating, rather than medical conditions. These diseases include high cholesterol, high blood pressure, early heart disease, diabetes, and bone problems. The document defines overweight using Body Mass Index (BMI) measurements and notes overweight in adulthood is associated with health issues like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, dyslipidemia, liver disease, asthma, and sleep apnea. It provides sources to support the information presented.

1. TUTORIAL
ENGLISH- LEVEL 3
Topic
How can we fight
children overweight in
Ecuador?
Members
Bolaños Gabriela
Del Rosario Kristen
Figueroa Diana
Pamela Mendiburo
Vanessa Tapia

2. CHILDREN CAN GET A
LOT OF DISEASES BY
THE OVERWEIGHT
Thesis

3. ARGUMENT
Overweight causes dangerous diseases because children have lack of
physical activity, unhealthy eating patterns, or a combination of these factors.
Only in rare cases is being overweight caused by a medical condition such as
a hormonal problem.
This dangerous diseases are:
High cholesterol
High blood
pressure
Early heart
disease
Diabetes Bone problems

4. DEFINITION
OVERWEIGHT is more precise
and designates a state
between normal weight
and obesity.
The National Institutes of
Health (NIH) now defines
overweight in terms of the
BMI which is a person's
weight in kilograms (kg)
divided by their height in
meters (m)squared.
Since the BMI describes the
body weight relative to
height, it correlates strongly
(in adults) with the total
body fat content.
Ferreira, Aparecido Pimentel, Oliveira, Carlos E. R., &
França, Nancí Maria. (2007).

5. CONSEQUENCES
Overweight and obesity in adulthood is associated with many serious physiological,
psychological, and social consequences, as listed below. Given these health and
social consequences, it should not be surprising that obesity has serious economic
consequences as well. The annual medical costs alone have been estimated as
high as $190 billion (in 2005 dollars) – 21 percent of all medical spending (Cawley &
Meyerhoefer, 2011).
Diabetes (Nguygen
et al., 2008)
Heart disease (Guh
et al., 2009)
Stroke (Guh et al.,
2009; Strazzullo et al.,
2010)
Dyslipidemia (e.g.,
high blood
cholesterol and
triglycerides)
(Nguygen et al.,
2008)
Liver disease (Clark,
2006)
Asthma (McHugh et
al., 2009)
Sleep apnea
(Punjabi, 2008

6. BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/media/en/gsfs_obesity.pdf

7. THANKS..