Childhood Obesity Essay

Childhood obesity is a condition that can be directly defined as having excess body fat and is often based on Body Mass Index (BMI) and statistics show that cases of obesity have tripled since the 1970s (Flegal et al, 2015). Audience This research mainly targets key stakeholders in the health sector and the society, with the increasing need to slow the increase of overweight children. There has been increased support from all the concerned stakeholders, in homes parents have embraced healthy eating and schools in conjunction with authorities have come up with policies that discourage uptake of unhealthy foods. There have been increased efforts to discourage children from immobile activities such as computer gaming and spending time on social networking sites and engage in activities like cycling and outdoor activities.