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  1. childhood obesity.
  2. In cities, childhood is a time filled with an incredible
  3. amount of growth, physically mentally and emotionally.
  4. Most of the behaviors developed as a child continue into
  5. adult life.
  6. So it is vital for Children to practice healthy habits
  7. from a young age, New South Wales, Children are classified
  8. as those under the age of 16.
  9. This period of time can be broken up into sub
  10. categories that include babies, toddlers, preschoolers, childhood and adolescence.
  11. According to the 2016 census, there are around one million
  12. Children in Greater Sydney.
  13. Obesity is a condition that involves the individual having excess
  14. body weight.
  15. Having excess body weight is a major health concern and
  16. can lead to other chronic and deadly complications.
  17. One world a disease that is caused by obesity is
  18. type two diabetes.
  19. In 2017 and 18, 1 million people in Australia had
  20. type two diabetes.
  21. This puts a significant burden on the health care in
  22. Australia, and it is absolutely vital that this number is
  23. lowered more concerning matter is that childhood obesity is also
  24. on the rise During 2017 and 18 25 of Children
  25. aged 5-17 were overweight or obese, but is one in
  26. every four Children.
  27. This is incredibly alarming basically during childhood dramatically increases the
  28. chances of developing diabetes later in life, which is a
  29. major health concern.
  30. There are multiple reasons for the development of obesity in
  31. Children. With many of these arising from social determinants, young
  32. and sometimes older Children are completely reliant on their parents
  33. to live a healthy childhood.
  34. One main responsibility of a parent is to provide food
  35. for their Children.
  36. But what many parents miss is the importance of healthy
  37. food in their Children's diet.
  38. Parents with poor education may not know or understand the
  39. importance of healthy eating and may be unaware of important
  40. things, such as the Australian recommended daily nutrition intake, which
  41. clearly outlines the amount and types of food that are
  42. required to eat healthy.
  43. However, it may not be a lack of education that
  44. leads to parents not sufficiently providing their Children with healthy
  45. food. It may be due to parents having low socioeconomic
  46. status or even single parent families.
  47. Healthy food is is significantly more expensive and less accessible
  48. than junk food.
  49. For example, a range of fruit and vegetables at the
  50. grocery store can sometimes end up being double or even
  51. triple the price of junk food or take away foods
  52. such as Mcdonalds, Parents with low S.
  53. E. S.
  54. May be forced to resort to john food or take
  55. away and may have no other option.
  56. Advanced technology and advertisement is also on the rise.
  57. Trajan living in cities are exposed to a massive amount
  58. of advertisement on unhealthy eating, such as Mcdonald's ads on
  59. T. V.
  60. S. Mcdonald's billboards on the side of the roads and
  61. even a larger amount of physical.
  62. Mcdonald's shops in cities compared to rural areas with a
  63. significant rise in technology becomes less time for physical toys
  64. in the outdoors and more time on TVs, tablets and
  65. telecommunications. This is a significant concern what technology is making
  66. many aspects of our lives easier.
  67. It's making our Children less social and less active.
  68. Children and cities are exposed to such a wide range
  69. of technologies in this day and age ranging from an
  70. ipod that's only purpose is to play music to the
  71. super interactive visual reality games.
  72. Many kids are staying indoors, playing video games for hours
  73. on end instead of exercising barely seeing a lot of
  74. day. This is incredibly alarming.
  75. Children that rarely exercise or do not exercise at all
  76. are significantly higher risk of developing obesity.
  77. A small step to increasing a child physical activity may
  78. be to allow them to walk to school rather than
  79. public or parental transport.
  80. Parents may be hesitant to do this as they fear
  81. the safety of their child as they walk to school.
  82. This fear of safety is also involved in allowing Children
  83. to play sports.
  84. Parents may be paranoid about that Children getting potentially injured
  85. and may resist them playing a teams for some parents
  86. may also be unable to avoid that afford registration fees,
  87. interventions. School based interventions are a great way to teach
  88. Children about healthy eating habits and educate them on the
  89. dangers of obesity.
  90. A school based intervention that aims to promote healthy eating
  91. Is conscience?
  92. It This is a school based program that is based
  93. on healthy, on a healthy food break, where students are
  94. only to eat fruit and veg that they have brought
  95. from home.
  96. Well this is a great way to implement healthy eating
  97. into Children.
  98. It does raise an equity issues.
  99. Some Children may not have fruit or vegetables they can
  100. bring from home and therefore unable to to participate.
  101. This, however, is still an effective intervention approach as it
  102. implements the idea of healthy eating, even if there is
  103. not 100 participation.
  104. The World Health Organization has also implemented an intervention that
  105. includes decreasing the amount of unhealthy food and drink ads
  106. that are advertised on the T.
  107. V. In their results.
  108. They have found that this was cost effective.
  109. However, this does not cover all Children.
  110. Many Children either do not have access to a tv.
  111. Aren't allowed to watch Tv or choose themselves up to
  112. watch tv.
  113. So this intervention, while it is cost effective, may not
  114. reach a sufficient amount of the population to see a
  115. significant decrease in childhood obesity.
  116. A government policy that serves as an intervention approach is
  117. the nutrition labelling requirements, which involves the mandatory implementation of
  118. nutrition labels on food.
  119. This provides parents with the option to look at the
  120. labels and choose healthier foods while that many parents don't
  121. have the time or care to look at these labels
  122. and may choose food purely on their opinion of the
  123. price. Overall school based interventions such as conscience sip a
  124. decrease in unhealthy food and drink advertisements and government policy
  125. on nutrition labels do serve as adequate intervention strategies.
  126. However, there's still always room to improve childhood obesity in
  127. cities is a concerning issue.
  128. It has many causes.
  129. However, with the implication implication of adequate intervention strategies can
  130. lead to a decrease in obesity.
  131. This will lead to a better quality of life the
  132. child and decrease their chances of harmful conditions and diseases
  133. such as diabetes.
  134. I hope you enjoyed this video and I thank you
  135. for your time