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What do you think causes childhood obesity?

I am taking a nutrition class for my early childhood education degree and childhood obesity is the topic I chose to write my research paper on. I would like to get some input on how you all feel about the subject. This will help in my project. No names or user id’s will be used in any part of this project. Websites to visit are appreciated. Thank you.

Weight gain or loss is the balance between food energy input and exercise energy output.

The government health department offers this insight – “Time trends show a decline in physical activity, but no significant increase in the number of calories consumed.”

So maybe eating too much is not the main cause, and a lack of physical output is.

TV and video games have been blamed, but the studies have looked into this and TV is not to blame. “video game play, but not television use, is indeed displacing the time children spend in more physically demanding pursuits.” (see source)

Video games then? Well the US state with the heaviest kids has 19% playing 4+ hours, and the state with the leanest youngsters – 3.5%. It does not mean it is a cause, just well correlated.

Could it be changes in not calorie intake, but changes to nutirtion? Maybe the food is less easily burned off and more easily stored?

Let us know the findings of your paper!!

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