Childhood Obesity Persuasive Essay

Childhood Obesity As more and more fast food chains pop up and more restaurants serve fatty foods, the more children are diagnosed with childhood obesity. What many don’t know is that childhood diabetes can affect any child in any culture. No matter how healthy the meal may be if your children are not active than they can start to get bigger and bigger until their weight kills them. We all know it’s harsh to say but do you want to have to never see your child healthy? In this essay I will tell you what childhood obesity does to a child’s body and how it can affect their life in the future, how to prevent childhood obesity, and how to reverse a case of childhood obesity. Also yes, reversing childhood obesity is possible but reversing the medical …show more content…
You have a child, they have childhood obesity. Let’s say they are a 10-year-old boy and they have a BMI, Body Mass Index, of 23. According to the BMI chart they are overweight because the BMI of 23 is the healthy weight of a 15-year-old boy. Here’s another scenario, you have a 12-year-old daughter who has a BMI of 25. Since she is the 95th percentile she is considered overweight. A BMI of 25, for a girl, isn’t healthy until age 20 and even there she would still be at risk for obesity. These two scenarios have probably given away what I’m going to talk about next. How to reverse childhood obesity. Now before we get started let me tell you something. If a child has gotten a disease from childhood obesity, like diabetes, you can not reverse the disease. You can make the child lose the weight but the disease will always stay. Like preventing obesity a good diet and a lot of exercise is the key to losing the weight of childhood obesity. Many children have taken action and lost the weight they put on when they were younger with the encouragement of their parents yet some have chosen to be obese all their lives and most likely end up on “My 600-Pound Life”. It isn’t right for children to be tortured with the weight they hold when you, as their parent or a trustworthy friend, could help them with the weight loss. Tell the child how you feel, sit them down and tell them the obese lifestyle isn’t for them. It doesn’t take strenuous daily activity and super healthy, veggie only lifestyles. Diets can be fun and getting the weight off them can bring up their self-esteem and end the bullying they might be receiving. Exercising doesn’t have to be hard and painful, it can be fun and aimed to help the child without being “boring” per

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