The Cause of Childhood Obesity

How can children know what is in their food, if no one is really sure?

By: Ashley Weidman

Childhood Obesity: An Epidemic • Childhood obesity affects

many children. • Media has labeled it as an

epidemic (Zieff and Veri 156).

Food Intake• More fat and sugar

consumed = weight gain.• Americans have doubled

their intake of sugar in the last 4 decades (Fed Up).

https://www.nutriliving.com/infographics/childhood-obesity

The Problem with School LunchesSchool lunches:• Excess calories• Excess fat• Excess sodium

A Sedentary Life• Physical Education classes are less demanding• Children are obsessed with electronics

http://www.villageyouth.org/child-obesity/

Isn’t it all just too expensive? • Trying to fix these big problems costs a lot of money.• How can it be done?

QuoteWhat you do today can improve all your

tomorrows.

–Ralph Marston

Works Cited• American Heart Association. American Heart Association, Inc., 2015. Web. 22 Nov. 2015. • http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ralphmarst132966.html?src=t_motivatio

nal• Fed Up. Dir. Stephanie Soechtig. Radius TWC and Atlas Films, 2014. Film.• Granlund, Dave. “Kids less fit than parents.” Cartoon. The Cagle Post. 30 Nov. 2013. • Granlund, Dave. “School vacation.” Cartoon. The Cagle Post. 5 June 2015. • Moss, Michael. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. New York: Random

House Trade Paperbacks, 2013. Print. • Nestle, Marion. Food Politics. California: University of California Press, 2002. Print. • Oliver, Jamie. Speak Up for Better School Meals. 2015. Jamie Oliver Food Foundation.

Web. 28 November 2015.• “Special Health Issue: Our Super-Sized Kids” Time 23 June 2008: 1. Web.