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The Cause of Childhood Obesity
How can children know what is in their food, if no one is really sure?
By: Ashley Weidman
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Childhood Obesity: An Epidemic • Childhood obesity affects
many children. • Media has labeled it as an
epidemic (Zieff and Veri 156).
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Food Intake• More fat and sugar
consumed = weight gain.• Americans have doubled
their intake of sugar in the last 4 decades (Fed Up).
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https://www.nutriliving.com/infographics/childhood-obesity
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The Problem with School LunchesSchool lunches:• Excess calories• Excess fat• Excess sodium
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A Sedentary Life• Physical Education classes are less demanding• Children are obsessed with electronics
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http://www.villageyouth.org/child-obesity/
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Isn’t it all just too expensive? • Trying to fix these big problems costs a lot of money.• How can it be done?
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QuoteWhat you do today can improve all your
tomorrows.
–Ralph Marston
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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
nal• 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.