Childhood Obesity Speech

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Childhood Obesity

My fellow schoolmates of________, I come to you today to inform you of childhood obesity worldwide. Obesity is a condition in which body fat has accumulated to such an extent that health may be negatively affected.

Obesity has been called the new worldwide epidemic by many doctors. Obesity is, easily, the world's fastest growing health concern. This condition, though, is not limited to adults. Doctors have recently found that nearly thirteen percent of all children suffer from this problem and that statistic seems to go up each year.

Understanding the jump in childhood obesity rates is directly linked to understanding obesity itself. Other institutions, though, suggest that a child whose body weight is at least 20% higher than a child of a similar height is obese. No matter what the exact definition, obesity is, simply, excess body fat. Why, though, is obesity such a concern? I mean, hey, an extra snack or two can't really harm a kid, can it? Actually, yes, it can.

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Obesity cannot only increase the risk of psychological problems in kids, like eating disorders, depression, and anxiety problems, it can also put them at risk for all sorts of physiological problems including heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. In fact, forty-five percent of all new cases of juvenile type-II diabetes are obesity linked.

Childhood obesity increases the risk of orthopaedic problems. Because kids are forced to carry extra weight that their bone structures simply cannot handle, bowed legs and arthritis are increasingly present. Obese kids also have more skin disorders than children of a healthy weight. Obesity increases ...

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