Treatment and Lifestyle Changes

This video provided by youtube is a great resource to guide anyone on how to make lifestyle changes to battle childhood obesity.

There is no easy way to fight this battle of childhood obesity. However, state and local governments are putting together healthier strategies to help fight obesity, communities must support healthy eating, activities that help get kids off the couch and outside and playing.

Other ways to prevent this problem is by monitoring weight and BMI, knowing what foods are nutritional and beneficial, and what foods to cut out.

The best ways for children o fight obesity is to become more active and eat healthier. They need to had more vegetables and fruits into their diets and eat in little portions.

Parents should plan more actives for their children during free time instead of watch tv and playing video games. this would give them the opportunity for both the parents and children to be active together and strive for a healthy life.

Heart:

http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/HealthierKids/ChildhoodObesity/Preventing-Childhood-Obesity-Tips-for-Parents-and-Caretakers_UCM_456118_Article.jsp#

CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/06/politics/michelle-obamas-lets-move-turns-5-is-it-working/

Times:

http://time.com/3700930/childhood-obesity-michelle-obama-lets-move/

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