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Nutrition and Overweight
One objective is to reduce the proportion of children and adolescence who are overweight and obese. According to the Progress Quotient Chart, 6-19 years old has negatively gone away from target by 83%.
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Progress:
My objective has not met or exceeded it's target.
Progress Toward Healthy People 2010 Targets
Disparities:
Overweight and obesidity has declined within Mexican American and black non-Hispanic children between the ages of 6-11 years old. However, for children 6-19 years olds, the prevalence was 50% lower in white non-Hispanic populations than the Mexican American and black non-Hispanic populations combined.
Progress Toward Elimination of Health Disparities
Opportunities and Challenges:
A few tools are being implemented with trying to reverse the affects of overweight and obesity rates in children. One of them is the dietary guidelines have been revised in the Food Guidance System MyPyramid. Another tool is to educate the public (children) on the food label to demonstrate choosing healthier diets. Food Labeling and Nutrition Education Tools
Emerging Issues:
The best way to implement reduced obesity rates is simply by prevention. By educating and putting in the positive effects on having a healthy diet with advertising and making actions are great ways to promote the importance of nutrition. Because obesity rates have increased, they have developed a couple new treatment options, pharmaceuticals and bariatric surgery.
Emerging Issues
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H.CON.RES.11
Title: Recognizing the disproportionate impact of the global food crisis on children in the developing world.
Sponsor: Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] (introduced 1/8/2009) Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 1/8/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Recommendation: Vote yes for H.CON.RES.11 Recognizing the disproportionate impact of the global food crisis on children in the developing world.
My Political Representative: Congressman Anthony "Tony" Sertich
I like this topic...it kind of goes along with my topic of physical activity! I'm shocked that the target has not yet been made, that there's been no changes whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteNice work Heidi. Any particular reason you chose obesity and nutrition? I liked to tools you chose to include in your post.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good topic. It is raising a lot of concern especially in school. It will be interesting to follow the progress.
ReplyDeleteGreat topic! I think that this sounds so interesting. I work with children and it's amazing to see how many of the kids are overweight. It's scary to see that the proposed bill is considering this problem a crisis, I feel that more people need to realize that it is in fact an issue not only for the US but for many parts of the world, though I feel like we might have the worst of it.
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