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    Contemporary Diet and

    Nutrition: A resource list


    for educating the
    community
    Joann Myers
    HW499-1
    19 June 2016

    Childhood Obesity

    Childhood obesity is an epidemic that affects nearly half of the children in all ethnicities across the
    US. With the easy access to fast food, a fast paced and busy lifestyle, less exercise at school and
    home, and processed foods and snacks, the problem just keeps rising. To help with this epidemic
    parents, teachers and friends can use the following resources and tips:

    Let's Move! is about putting children on the path to a healthy future during their earliest months and years. Giving parents
    helpful information and fostering environments that support healthy choices

    http://www.letsmove.gov/parents

    Article: Can Low-Income Americans Afford a Healthy Diet?

    Lets move is a website full of resources and tips that can help parents, caregivers, and teachers give tips and advice to
    help our children lose weight, stay in shape, and learn life long ways of staying healthy.

    This is a good article to teach parents that healthy eating and nutritious foods can be affordable. Being able to shop right
    and provide the good foods at home, will help reduce childhood obesity in many homes.
    http://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2008-november/can-low-income-americans-afford-a-healthy-diet.aspx#.V46eNqpf
    1LM

    Journal: Parents as the start of the solution: a social marketing approach to understanding triggers and barriers to entering a
    childhood weight management service

    This is a good article for parents to read because it helps them see what issues other parents have when trying to reduce
    childhood obesity.

    Childhood Obesity: What you Can do

    Get Up and Move:

    Take a family walk or bike ride after dinner

    Play ball

    Spend time outside: 30 to 60 minutes on the playground is a great way to keep the

    Eat Right

    Try starting a garden, if the kids grow it and are involved they will want to eat

    Buy some kids cook books and have them help prep meals

    View some of the websites and resources and healthy eating and have the kids help
    shop

    Fast Food

    McDonalds, Burger King, Wendys, these and many more fast food restaurants appeal to children because
    what kid doesnt want a toy, a crown, a play place? These fast food places are also easy and quick, but they
    can cause a lifetime of health issues starting at a young age.

    Eating fast food is a choice, many are starting to have healthier options, but when it comes to the kids, they still want
    that kids meal with nuggets or burgers. The below video is just one of many that share the effects of fast food.

    Journal: Caloric Intake From Fast Food Among Children and Adolescents in the United States, 20112012.

    This is good information to get a reality on how much calories come from fast food.

    Article: Fast-food culture serves up super-size Americans:

    It all leads back to being overweight and unhealthy. This article blames society on the fast food epdimic and gives some
    tips on how to avoid it.
    http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec01/fastfood.aspx

    Fast Food: What you Can do

    In Moderation:

    On long trips pre-make healthy snacks and meals

    Only go to fast food once in a blue moon, do not make it an everyday thing

    Eat Right

    If fast food cannot be avoided find places such as Subway or somewhere that gives
    healthier choices

    Do not upgrade meals larger sizes and skip the sodas get a cup of water instead.

    Junk Food

    Snacking is something we all do, but its the snacks we eat that need to be focused on. In schools we see
    vending machines at sports games there are candy bars and sodas, and at home we tend to buy chips and
    other unhealthy snacks.

    If we can learn and see what junk food is doing to our kids and to our own bodies, we can learn how to make a
    change. This video is 25 facts about junk food. It may help you think twice.

    Journal: Junk Food in Schools and Childhood Obesity

    If you want statistics and facts, this is a good article that shares the information on how easily junk food is available and how
    it affects the body.
    http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.lib.kaplan.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=7f55809e-5a09-4378-b0b0-14c113cb157d%40sessio
    nmgr107&vid=3&hid=117

    WebMd Article: Junk-Food Facts

    This is another interesting read that gives facts about calories, tips on how to avoid fast food, and many more.

    Junk Food: What you Can do

    Buy Healthy:

    Buy foods that are not processed

    Teach yourself and your kids to read the nutrition facts and what to look for

    Shop only on the outsides of the store, stay out of the aisles,

    Eat Right

    Try starting a garden, if the kids grow it and are involved they will want to eat

    Buy some kids cook books and have them help prep meals

    View some of the websites and resources and healthy eating and have the kids help
    shop

    References:

    25 Junk Food Facts That Might Convince You To Eat Healthier. (2015). YouTube. Retrieved from:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAwC3AmWbgI

    Datar, A. & Nicosia, N. (2012) Junk Food in Schools and Childhood Obesity. Journal of Policy Analysis & Management.
    Retrieved from:
    http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.lib.kaplan.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=7f55809e-5a09-4378-b0b0-14c113cb157d%40s
    essionmgr107&vid=3&hid=117

    Gillespie J., Midmore C., Hoeflich J., Ness C., Ballard P. & Stewart L. (2015) Parents as the start of the solution: a social
    marketing approach to understanding triggers and barriers to entering a childhood weight management service. Journal
    of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 28 (Suppl. 1), 8392

    Magee, E. (n.d.) Junk-Food Facts: Are you a junk-food junkie? Here's what you need to know. Retrieved from:
    http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.lib.kaplan.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=7f55809e-5a09-4378-b0b0-14c113cb157d%40
    sessionmgr107&vid=3&hid=117

    Murray, E. (2001). Fast-food culture serves up super-size Americans. American Psychological Association. Vol. 32; No.
    11, pg 33. Retrieved from: http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec01/fastfood.aspx

    Studying the Effects of Fast Food. (2013). YouTube. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIByhK16TtY

    Sundeep Vikraman, M.D., M.P.H.; Cheryl D. Fryar, M.S.P.H.; and Cynthia L. Ogden, Ph.D. (2015) Caloric Intake From Fast
    Food Among Children and Adolescents in the United States, 20112012. NCHS Data Brief. No. 213.

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