Part Ii-Speech Childhood Obesity

COM 120 PART II Name Communications and media Tutors Name 11/04/2016 PART II Speech Obesity can be described as having excess body weight for in and individuals body mass. Obesity is determined with respect to height from fat, muscle, bone, water, or a combination of these factors. The cause of obesity is the accumulation of fat as the result of imbalance in calories. Basically obesity is caused by a high calorie intake and too few calories expended. There are other obesity predisposing factors such as genes, behavior, and environmental factors. Obesity is bad, childhood obesity is worse. Childhood obesity has grown in the recent past. Statistics indicate that childhood obesity has more than doubled in the past 30 years (National Center for Health Statistics., 2012). The percentage of obese children in the ages between 6 and 11 years in the US increased from 7 in 1980 to about 18 in 2012 (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, Flegal, 2014). Yet elementary schools should not ban fatty foods, such as potato chips, cookies, and soft drinks. Fatty foods, such as potato chips, cookies, and soft drinks are commonly referred to as junk foods. The first and possibly most important reason that elementary schools should