Childhood Obesity

[Institution Name]Childhood Obesity

Introduction to childhood obesity

Childhood Obesity is a serious health problem or condition. It is defined or explained as a disorder in which child carry large amount of body fat as compared to his sex and height. A person or a child is considered as obese if his BMI (body mass index) which is weight in kilograms divided by the square of their height in meters is greater than or equal to 30.

During past three decades world authorities give priority to childhood obesity by considering the rate with which it is increased in the world especially in United States. It is believed that increasing number of disorders in the children is the major cause of increasing this disease in children. Lot of progress has been made to understand the genetics of obesity and physiology of hunger control in children. Obesity is also cause of some serious syndromes in children.

Causes behind selecting Childhood Obesity

Childhood obesity becomes very serious problem for all over the world especially United States now a days. Professional and predictors of disease says that childhood obesity if increased with current increasing rate becomes most serious disease world children have to face in the future. The government of all over the world countries tries their best to reduce the rate of childhood obesity in their regions as it generates and causes certain very serious types of diseases and reduces life expectancy in the children. Let us consider some reasons that force me to select “Childhood Obesity”.

Childhood obesity in United States

The available occurrence data available through various research shows that childhood obesity is rapidly increasing throughout United States, but the patterns of this increment vary with age, time, geographical region and sex. The highest and peak rates of childhood obesity are mostly observed in big cities of United ...