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Childhood Obesity Is a Growing Term Paper
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Subject:Social Issues
Topic:Childhood Obesity
Document Type:Term Paper
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A survey of some of the nation's most popular fast-food restaurants revealed numerous high calorie, high fat, and trans fat in children's menu food selections. Helm found the fast-food restaurant Bojangles had an offering that was 841 kcal and had more than 16 grams of fat, with information on trans fat not available. Kentucky Fried Chicken had the offering with the highest level of trans fat. Their children's offering had 510 kcal and 6.5 grams of fat, and a disturbing 7 grams of trans fat. Subway, whose marketing program revolves around Jared, the man who lost weight eating only their sandwiches, had the children's offering with the second highest trans fat found - at 450 kcal and 5.5 grams of fat, it had 3.5 grams of trans fat. Arby's prime offender was 630 kcal and 7 grams of fat, although this offering had no trans fat.
Other high calorie, high fat, and trans fat offenders included: Burger King, Chick-Fil-a, Hardee's, Wendy's, Pizza Hut, and McDonald's.
These common fast-food chains, with their poor nutritional value offerings, are all contributing to childhood obesity in the United States.
Conclusion:
child consuming fast-food for breakfast, lunch and dinner can easily consumer more than 2,500 kcal, not including snacks and beverages, thanks to the high calorie, high fat, and trans fat content common at these restaurants. Couple this with the increased sedentary lifestyle of today's video game generation, and this can lead to an extraordinary negative effect on health, including increased obesity. With today's fast-paced, hyper-convenience society, this increase in fast-food consumption has equated to an increase in obesity in America's children.
References
Helms, L. "Analysis of Fast Food Choices Available for Children." Health Education Monograph 24(2) 2007: pp. 26-31. Education Research Complete EBSCOHost. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.…
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Helms, L. "Analysis of Fast Food Choices Available for Children." Health Education Monograph 24(2) 2007: pp. 26-31. Education Research Complete EBSCOHost. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ. November 7, 2007 http://web.ebscohost.com.
King, B. "Childhood Obesity." Alive: Canadian Journal of Health & Nutrition (299) Sept 2007: pp. 36-38. Alt HealthWatch. EBSCOHost. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ. November 7, 2007 http://web.ebscohost.com.
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