Youth and Obesity

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Youth Sports can save obese children
Chauncey Jones
Hampton University

Obesity in America is the main reason Americans are dying every year. People can say that aids, lung cancer, or guns are the main issue of today. Well I am willing to prove that living a sedentary lifestyle is a terrible way to live, and the children of the United States are living very unhealthy. Did you know that almost 300,000 deaths are caused by sedentary living? Nearly 16 to 33% of the children in the United States are obese. (Willows, N. Prevalence Estimates of Overweight and Obesity, 97) Mathematically, the median number is 25%. That means 75,000 kids could die due to unhealthy living. I want to state that youth sports are positive for children and it provide a healthier lifestyle too.

The overall purpose of my paper is to discuss Obesity and why youth sports are positive for children. The main issues that my paper will contend are: sedentary living patterns, building character, and how technology has a negative affect on youth sports. With parents allowing their children to live a sedentary lifestyle, children are also partaking into unhealthy eating habits. Poor eating habits are the not the only thing to blame, but it seems like this generation of children does seem to be as active as pass generations. ( Finklestein, E. A. (March 2008).American Journal of Public Health, 98(3), 411-415)

The percentage for obese children has escalated over recent years. Percentages show that childhood obesity is anywhere between 16 and 33 percent just in the United States. Detrimental weight gain due to poor nutritional regimes is responsible for over 300,000 deaths each year. If I do the math, if 20 percent of kids are obese, that could possibly lead to 60,000 deaths a year. That’s huge! If obese children maintain their living patterns, they are more likely to become overweight in adulthood. (Harker, D. & Harker, M....
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