Razan Taofek

AEP1

Core class

Reading Reaction Journal # 4

Children problems.

Obesity among Children

Reference:

Poussaint, A. Obesity among children. from http://life.familyeducation.com/health/obesity/29523.html

Vocabulary:

1) Youth: is the period of life for child before they are a fully mature adult.

2) Obesity: being overweight.

3) Sedentary: sit down a lot to do something without exercise.

4) Inactive: not working.

5) Diabetes: is a medical condition in which someone has too much sugar in his blood.

6) Kidney: organs in tour body that take waste matter from your blood and send it out of your body as urine.

7) Caregiver: is someone who responsible after another person.

8) Onset: beginning.

Summary:

This article talked about the increasing obesity epidemic in childhood and how sedentary activities like watching the TV or sitting at the computer or playing video games are ways to increase that; also eating fast food and getting no exercise can be ways to bad health and obesity. After that the author talked about how obesity is related to diabetes threat, which is a caused of health and heart problems, especially in families who have a history of disease. Then the author gives parents some advice to prevent obesity, which depend on a good plane to do that. This advice is, first, put a limit on watching the TV for one or two hours. Second, parent and children have to learn through a nutrition program how they can make healthy diets. Third, diminish fast food and do some exercise or physical activities.

Reaction:

In this article the author talked about the obesity epidemic; I agree with him in every thing he said, but I have little comment on that.

First, he said that watching the TV or sitting at the computer or playing video games are causes for obesity; that is right but those are not enough reasons for obesity; there is another things that can also lead to obesity, like psychological problems. For example, there are some people who are eat a lot if they feel sad or anxious, so I recommend visiting psychologist and nutritionist.

Second, the author said that obesity is cause of heart or health problem, but actually that is not enough, because obesity is a cause for a lot of problems like weakness in mind.

Finally, I suggest that parents take their children to psychologist, nutritionist, and pediatrician to get a good plan to avoid obesity.