Childhood Obesity and working Parents

Abstract

This paper is based on the childhood obesity and the working parents. The paper consist of the introduction about the childhood obesity, the link of childhood obesity with the working parents, the description about the childhood obesity that working parents are the main cause of the childhood obesity, is the working mother the main reason for the childhood obesity. It is difficult to determine the fats of the body directly; therefore, it can be diagnosed through the (BMI) Body Mass Index. As economy and time have changed, family has to manage more than one family income to pay all the bills. There is a strong link between the childhood obesity and working parents.

Childhood Obesity and working Parents

Introduction

In the United States, obesity and overweight in the children has become the big health problem. A condition in which over load of fats affect the health of the child negatively is obesity in the children. It is difficult to determine the fats of the body directly; therefore, it can be diagnosed through the (BMI) Body Mass Index. Normally, the word overweight is used for the children instead of the obesity. The greatest risk factors for the childhood obesity are the obesity in the parents. This can be proved by the genetics and the environment of the family. Childhood obesity increases the risk for the development of the hypertension, cholesterol, orthopedic problems, respiratory ailments, type: 2 diabetes and depression as a youth. Childhood obesity can be caused by multi factorial reasons like unhealthy eating patterns resulting in overindulgence energy intake, lack of physical activity, or may be mixture of the both (Smith, 1999).

There was a time when there was only one working parent, but now it does not working as time is changed now. As economy and time have changed, family has to manage more than one family income to pay all the bills. The children are left out at home alone because mom and dad both are out for working full time. It has been found from the studies the children of ages four to nine and elders of the age of fifties that the childhood obesity had risen around fifty percent from the elders. There are many reasons for the childhood obesity and working parents is one of them. When the difference is found between the early children and children of today, it has been proved that the percentage of obesity in full time working mothers is large in modern group of children. Particular practices of the situation are not clear but still there are few families in which parents do not care about the type of food products that their children take or prefer to eat (Smith, 1999).



Discussion

Link between the working parents and childhood obesity

There is a strong link between the childhood obesity and working parents. It has been found that children whose parents are obese or over weight, it is possible that their children may also be obese or over ...