"What''S For Lunch" Obesity?
Submitted by freefortermpapers on 06/24/2008 03:00 PM
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"What''S For Lunch" Obesity?
What's for lunch? "Obesity"
If the schools take precautions to help and prevent the health of the victims and future victims of childhood obesity, then schools will impart education to children for a lifetime of responsible wellbeing.
For example, I experienced a first hand look at how obesity is debilitating the lives of our young ones. I went to the park to read a book in reference to this subject as my son played in the playground, a father approached with his three kids all raging between 4 and 7 years of age. What made this family stand out was that his three kids were extremely heavy a girl and two boy's in comparison to the other kids their height that were at the playground. Taken back because just in that moment, I was reading the list of illnesses that directly derives from overweight ness. I was so angry that I literally saw myself walking over to the father and showing him the pages I was reading. I caught myself staring at him (Father) cause all I was doing was blaming him for the damage he was deliberately to his kids. Though I am no medical doctor, couldn't the father see that it just doesn't look right that other kids are running to and fro while his kids waddle? They would walk right by certain activities because they couldn't jump up to reach or swing from them, things that all other kids were able to do while having fun. Naturally they struggled climbing up the net to sly down the slide. For what seemed like minutes, I was drawn to the little girl's body how her belly hung from underneath her shirt and her face was just so big with no neck to separate it from her shoulders. I thought about how hard the little girls' life was going to be, being so heavy not only in social circles would it be difficult but ever having a positive self image (Rimm38). As I sat on the grass with the book in hands and watched my son Ashton climbing up the wall my heart felt afflicted for all that I had seen, and I said to myself that I...
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