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CHILDHOOD OBESITY. WE NEED ACTION NOW
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changes are necessary in nearly every Before, during, and after school, at home, and at the doctor's office; what a child eats and how he or she spends the day should all be considered, and possibly altered, to prevent youth obesity. "Now is the time to focus on making broad cultural changes to how we deal with the epidemic of youth obesity," says William H. Dietz, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Physicians are overwhelmed in trying to treat childhood obesity in the clinical setting. Embracing and adopting a chronic care model in our schools and communities is a key strategy for us to solve the problem together." Dietz joined an expert panel for a symposium titled, "How Can Lifestyle Interventions Decrease Obesity in Youth?" Panelists outlined a number of steps that can be taken by parents, educators, and community officials that can be adopted to help children develop a lifetime of healthier habits. |
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Experts
agreed the most successful strategy to combat would be to
promote a mix of lifestyle changes, such as increased physical
education classes, walking to school, and reductions in
television watching. Recommendations of the panel included specifically promoting vigorous activity for children, which has been shown in studies to be more beneficial, setting aside ½ day a week for family fitness, and designating a single area of the home for eating so no food is consumed in front of the TV. Other ways to promote better eating habits are to offer more fruity snacks and to allow kids to sample and grade different vegetables and to prepare the ones they like. One of the most important places where changes in activity and diet should be promoted is at school. Young people obtain about 30-percent of their calories and do about 30-percent of their physical activity in schools, but the quality of foods served and activity programs in schools has been poor, making school an unhealthy environment for many children.
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Experts say there are successful models for programs which increase activity in schools and in after-school activities. They call on policy makers and educators who have the power to adopt these approaches. Programs, they say, would be especially effective in inner-city school and community settings, and that young urban children and adolescents are most in need of such interventions.
The metabolic syndrome is a prevalent condition in North America, with nearly 25 percent of U.S. men and women having the syndrome along with roughly 15 percent of Canadian adults. An individual with the metabolic syndrome has three or more of the following factors: high blood pressure, high blood glucose, high plasma triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, and high waist circumference.
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