Daniel Maldonado Vázquez(katch_montanasgmail.com)
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Parents busy schedules and fears about safety prevent many
children from taking part in after school programs.
We all know exercise in our life is very important to feel better and to be in good
shape. We know that a good diet is important for not getting so many diseases and
avoid becoming overweight.
Unfortunately children not know this, they just like to have fun playing, jumping,
hiding, and doing all activities they like to do, just for fun. Adults are the ones that
need to show children the benefits of exercise to help them avoid the obesity; which is
one of the most dangerous diseases at this age.
“Over the past 3 decades, the percentage of overweight school-age children has nearly
quadrupled (4% in 1965 to 15% in 2001) Data collected as part of the National Health
and Nutrition Examination Survey”. The cause of this problem is that kids don’t
exercise because they are at home playing videogames or just eating.
“It is important to recognize that obesity in many cases can be a preventable health
condition. While many factors including genetic predisposition contribute to obesity,
dietary behaviors and rates of physical activity are two major factors that can be
modified. Schools, families, and communities can work together to alter the trend
toward obesity”. After school programs can improve dietary behaviors, by eliminating
junk food consumption that is common when children return home from school. Such
programs also increase physical activity rates among students.
Other problem is that the parent does not want to let the child go to certain activities
because the child can get hurt in the training or get disease from the sun, or something
wrong can happen.
These causes do not depend of the child because maybe he wants to go but the time
or the ideas of the parent stop him from going. This will be a problem when the kid
grows up because he wont have the habit of exercising , he will be more likely to stay
in the home just eating.
Bibliography:
http://www.nasponline.org/publications/cq/cq333obesity.aspx
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Most of the parents in this days work all day, both of them, and they don't have time for prepare healthy food, instead of that they prefere to buy fast food with poor nutrients and a lot of fat. The people have lost the nutritional culture and we have recover it. Obesity is affecting a lot of young people, specially the kids, causing dangerous diseases in them that affects their lives.
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