Monday, October 24, 2011

GENERAL INFORMATION



This information is about childhood obesity and its effects.This information it was taken from internet.

Childhood Obesity

Is a condition where excess body fat negatively affects a child´s health.
Effects on Health
The first problem to occur in obese children are usually emotional or psychologycal.
Emotion
Is the complex psychological expect of an individual state of mind as interacting with and environmental influences in humans.
Psychology
Is science of behavior and mental processes.

Obesity is cause by:


Dietaly
Bad eating habits.

Sedentary lifestyle
Physical inactivity of children has also show to be a serious cause.
Genetics
Childhood obesity is often the results of interplay between many genetics and environmental factors.
Home eniveronment
Children’s food choices are also influenced by family meals.

Developmental factors
Various developmental factors may affects rates of obesity.

Medical Illness


Gushing syndrome may also influence childhood obesity. 

Information taken from Wikipedia
By Fernanda Castro

CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF OBESITY


These are some Causes and Effects of Obesity:
Causes:
1.    Some causes  for putting on extra weight at a very young age can be traced to the modern day lifestyle or genetically triggered phenomena. In this fast life people don't have the time to prepare healthy foods.
2.    
    Physical activities and weight gain have an inverse relationship; lesser the physical activity more will be the weight gain and vice versa. In this period of virtual gaming and television, children are hardly to be seen on the playground  .
3.     High calorie fast food has replaced the healthy diet and the absence of physical activity has just added .
4.     Children, today, prefer pizzas and burgers over nutrition’s , salad and fruit.
5.     In this period of virtual gaming and television, children are hardly to be seen on the playground.

 Effects:
1.     The effects of obesity in children can be divided into 2 categories; psychological effects and physical effects.
2.      The psychological effects include lowered self-esteem,depression,fear of being disliked by parents and friends or fear of being bullied by the other children.
3.      Although the physical problems for an obese child may start a bit late, but these include life-threatening conditions such as cardiovascular risks like heart failure or stroke.
4.      The chances of the child suffering from 2 type diabetes high blood pressure, high cholesterol in future may increase due to obesity.
5.      In this period of virtual gaming and television, children are hardly to be seen on the playground.    


         Information taken from Mayoclinic.com
         By Paula Tame  

WAYS TO PREVENT OBESITY IN CHILDHOOD

1. Get out and play ball: Play with your friends some sports and funny games like running jumping or something like that is important because you need to do exercise.
2. Be a good example: This will be one of the hard part, but many of the parents aren’t at our weight either.
3. Reduce stress: Obese kids feel stress as much as parents do. In fact when parents are stressed it make kids more so.
4. Sets limits: Part of the problems is all the technologic around obese kids.
5. School lunches: Parents may send us healthy lunch to not eat yunk food .
Information taken from yahoo.com

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

WHAT IS A BLOG?


A blog (a blend of a term web log) is a type of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.
Many blogs provide commentary  on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.

By Fernanda Castro
Information taken from Wikipedia