Children Obesity (青少年肥胖report).docx

5YOUTH OBESITYWords: 664A Problem Solution Report about Youth ObesityBy: Shengde YuID#: 20630871Instructor: Nancy Oczkowski A growing number of teenagers in many developed countries are confronted with being overweight and some obese children have been plagued by diseases that usually occur in adults. According to a report issued by International Journal of Obesity in 2011, overweight and obesity in childhood and adolescence may lead to several subsequent diseases, such as diabetes, stroke, coronary heart disease, and hypertension (Reilly & Kelly. 2010). Therefore, in order to solve the problems that are caused by obesity among children and adolescents, school policy and childrens lifestyle should be changed so that obese adolescents can experience many physical activities and balance their daily diets. Obesity and overweight in childhood have many negative effects on childrens mental health and physical health. In recent years, substantial evidence indicate that the youth obesity is related to “morbidity and mortality”. Several diseases, which pose threats to young peoples physical health, are caused by obesity. For example, obese teenagers are confronted with cardiometabolic diseases and some chronic diseases. These diseases may lead to disability in childrens daily life and make children feel inferior (Reilly & Kelly. 2010). In addition, chronic obesity may also have an adverse effect on teenagers mental health (Duarte et al., 2010). For instance, obesity in childhood is associated with conduct problems. Besides, obesity may cause the depression among young people (Duarte et al., 2010). To solve the problems that are caused by youth obesity, school departments should implement some practicable policies that can increase students physical activity time and reduce the energy intake. There are two types of school policies that can be implemented in schools. The first policy is the food service and nutrition policy that can balance the students diets. For example, school food service should provide different types of healthy foods that can satisfy childrens daily nutrition (Nanney et al., 2010). In addition, physical activity and education policy should be improved so that the students, who are overweight, can obtain self-confidence from physical education. For example, school should provide some interesting and easy accessible PE course levels that can attract more obese students (Nanney et al., 2010). In conclusion, since children usually spend most of their time in school and obese adolescents may not make rational decisions in this problem, school departments should implement and combine these enforceable policies to mitigate youth obesity. However, although the school policies are enforceable methods, there are some barriers that cannot be ignored. The most important obstruction is the financial resources. The healthy diets may cost a lot of money and state schools may not provide enough funds to supply these healthy foods (Grant et al., 2010). In addition, students meals in school are only one part of their daily diets, family eating diets should also be changed into a healthy way. However, some low-income families cannot spend extra money in the daily healthy diets (Grant et al., 2010). There are also some cultural factors that are barriers to improve school policies. As for physical activities, some people do not participate in some physical activities due to their religious belief (Grant et al., 2010).On the other hand, advanced technologies also make more and more childrens activity time replaced by surfing the Internet and watching TV. Nevertheless, it is obvious that school policies have many advantages. For instance, these policies can cultivate childrens hobbies about physical activities and healthy lifestyles. To sum up, with the development of society, youth obesity has become an important health crisis in developed countries. It needs schools, parents and students to work together to balance youth daily diets and increase childrens physical activity time. The implementation of the policies may encounter various kinds of difficulties, such as the shortage of funds, therefore, governments should provide some funds to support the development of school policies and limit the supply of unhealthy foods and raise adolescents awareness of the healthy foods. In addition, interesting physical activity education can make children actively participate in the physical activities which can control the occurrence of youth obesity.References.Duarte Cristiane S, PhD, MPH, Andre Sourander, MD, PhD, Georgios Nikolakaros, MD, Harri Pihlajamaki, MD, PhD, Hans Helenius, MSc, Jorma Piha, MD, PhD, Kirsti Kumpulainen, MD, PhD, Irma Moilanen, MD, PhD, Tuula Tamminen, MD, PhD, Fredrik Almqvist, MD, PhD, and Aviva Must, PhD (2010). Child Mental Health Problems and Obesity in Early Adulthood. The Journal of Pediatrics, Vol.156(1), pp.93-97.Grant, Jill L., MacKay, Kathryn C., Manuel, Patricia M., & McHugh, Tara-Leigh F. (2010). Barriers to optimizing investments in the built environment to reduce youth obesity: Policy-maker perspectives. Canadian Journal of Public Health,101(3), 237.Nanney, Marilyn S., Nelson, Toben, Wall, Melanie, Haddad, Tarek, Kubik, Martha, Laska, Melissa Nelson, & Story, Mary. (2010). State School Nutrition and Physical Activity Policy Environments and