Obesity in our society today:We must stop it now or what is going to be our future?

Twenty years ago our country

Started to realize that obesity

Was going to be a dilemma

We all would have to deal with.

Have we met the credentials and goals set by Healthy People 2010…. I think Not!!!

As you can tell from this chart, obesity is on the rise for adolescents in America. Are we going to do anything to stop it?

What Are the

Causes Of Obesity in

our society today?

TV!!!!

Lack of Physical Education

No More Backyard Sports

Video Games!!!

FAST FOOD!!!!

Lack of Exercise

How are we going to work together to

ensure our children of the future, they

will not have to deal with the risk of

obesity?

HEALTHY PEOPLE 2010!!!

Hello!!

!!

It was

a BUST!!!!

“According to data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

(BRFSS),no state met the

Healthy People 2010objective of 15 percent, and 30 states were 10 or more percentage points away

from the objective.”

http://www.obesity.org/statistics/

"Physical education must have an aim as broad as education itself and as noble and inspiring as human life. The great thought in physical education…is to make the physical contribute its full share to the life of the individual."~ Thomas Wood, 1893

http://www.pelinks4u.org/

Childhood Obesity in America

Percentage of Overweight and Obese Children: 2007 by StateAlabama 36.1% Montana 25.6%Alaska 33.9% Nebraska 31.5%Arizona 30.6% Nevada 34.2%Arkansas 37.5% New Hampshire 29.4%California 30.5% New Jersey 31%Colorado 27.2% New Mexico 32.7%Connecticut 25.7% New York 32.9%Delaware 33.2% North Carolina 33.5%Florida 33.1% North Dakota 25.7%Georgia 37.3% Ohio 33.3%Hawaii 28.5% Oklahoma 29.5%Idaho 27.5% Oregon 24.3%Illinois 34.9% Pennsylvania 29.7%Indiana 29.9% Rhode Island 30.1%Iowa 26.5% South Carolina 33.7%Kansas 31.1% South Dakota 28.4%Kentucky 37.1% Tennessee 36.5%Louisiana 35.9% Texas 32.2%Maine 28.2% Utah 23.1%Maryland 28.8% Vermont 26.7%Massachusetts 30% Virginia 31%Michigan 30.6% Washington 29.5%Minnesota 23.1% West Virginia 35.5%Mississippi 44.4% Wisconsin 31%Missouri 31% Wyoming 25.7% Washington D.C. 35.4%

If we do not soon end this battle of obesity in our country, our children are in for a rough future. We have to maintain

Physical Education in our society today. We have to

encourage our children to play outside as much as possible.

Instead of fast food, get back to eating home cooked meals.

Limit the hours of video games played, make them read a book.

Work out as adults so our children may learn from

example. If we do these simple things, we will help with the battle against obesity!!!!!!

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