obesity in the US

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Source 1:
Cheung, Patricia C., et al. "Childhood obesity incidence in the United States: a systematic
review." Childhood Obesity 12.1 (2016): 1-11. Retrieved from:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26618249.
This article is a scholarly overview of obesity in children and how it is understood in the
United States. It is published online by the US National Library of Medicine National
Institutes of Health, the source is peer-reviewed and written by reputable authors, making
it credible. The authors have high qualifications in the field and demonstrate a deeper
understanding of obesity. These authors include Patricia C. Cheung who holds a Master’s
Degree in Public Health and works at Rollins School of Public Health in the
Epidemiology Department based in Atlanta. Another contributor from the same institute
is Solveig A. Cunningham, a Professor in the Department of Global Health. Additionally,
Michael R. Kramer of the Emory University who is an expert in Gynecology, Nutrition
and Dietetics and Observation Medicine and K.M. Venkat Narayan of Emory University
is an expert known for his work in various disciplines like diabetes and non-
communicable diseases in public health.
In this article, the authors address childhood obesity in terms of causes, risk
factors, measurements and the change in obesity cases as children advance to adolescence

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and early adulthood. The study identifies the inconsistency in the analyses for childhood
obesity as which is a limitation in predicting future occurrences of the incidence using
population-based studies. Furthermore, this article asserts that the discrepancies found in
the study were attributed to the diversity in gender, race, ethnicity and socioeconomic
status. However, apart from indicating the difference in measuring obesity in children as
opposed to children, the study fails to address the role of perception of child obesity in
depth. I chose this article because of the relevance of its content concerning the topic of
opinions of both childhood and adult obesity. The authors led by Cheung are highly
qualified and give useful data and information which is vital for my research paper.
Source 2:
Udo, Tomoko, and Carlos M. Grilo. "Perceived weight discrimination, childhood maltreatment,
and weight gain in US adults with overweight/obesity." Obesity 24.6 (2016): 1366-1372.
Sourced from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.21474.
This article is available electronically on the Wiley Online Library, a website that
publishes peer-reviewed materials. The site has options for registering and downloading
the content, enabling offline reading. Carlos M. Grilo, the author of this article, is a
professor at Yale School of Medicine of Psychiatry and Psychology. His work as the
Director of the Program for Obesity Weight and Eating Research (POWER) is
fundamental in this paper. According to Grilo, women associated reports on childhood
obesity with weight discrimination in that women are more sensitive about their weight
as compared to their male counterparts. He further found that childhood maltreatment
was most conscious regarding their weight and had a low increase in their BMI. Adult

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obesity is attributed to abuse during childhood and the interaction of subsequent stressors
that increase the susceptibility to assumed weight discrimination. The role of heredity,
consumption of junk food, lack of physical exercises are some of the major causes of
obesity in both children and adults. This source cites the US health records on obesity and
the results from other studies like the NESARC (National Epidemiologic Survey on
Alcohol and Related Conditions). Despite successfully demonstrating the impact of
childhood experiences in triggering obesity, the article fails to critically analyze the
difference in how obesity in both children and adults is perceived differently. This article
will aide my research by providing a basis for advanced research on the discrepancies in
the perception of childhood and adulthood obesity. The information that Grilo and his
colleagues offer is in line with the issue in question.