Children and Obesity in the United States
Dublin (PRWEB) September 30, 2005
Research and Markets (http://www. researchandmarkets. com/reports/c24912 (http://www. researchandmarkets. com/reports/c24912)) has announced the addition of Children and Obesity in the United States to their offering
Few topics in recent years have received as much national and even global attention, scrutiny and lament as obesity. It is a subject with broad outreach and implications, impacting across the entire demographic, economic and social spectrum in the United States. The topic of obesity has captured the attention of legislators, public health organizations and policymakers, manufacturers, urban planners, researchers, the health and medical community, schools, parents, children, activists and lawyers. In a fashion, it has brought together a nation of people in an active dialog of concern. In another way, it has created discourse and even contempt as different interests defend their opinion, their business mission or their sphere of influence.
Emerging from the many forums, symposiums, conferences and research is a common consensus that obesity is a complex, multi-factorial issue which cannot be traced to an exclusive cause. Furthermore, the factors and environmental circumstances that are considered contributory to the onset of adult obesity are likewise implicated in childhood obesity. In the case of children, however, observation and even criticism of factors such as parenting, school curriculum and meal programs as well as media and marketing is more visible and audible.
This report examines the hypothesis that is the causes of childhood obesity which cannot be traced to a few rudimentary principles or simple facts. Instead, this report considers the issue from the perspective of academic, public health, regulatory and private sector opinion and seeks to present a balance of perspectives drawn from research and opinion published to date. Information is presented to help the reader understand the environment in which, or background against which, decisions about food choices or activity are made. In other words, childhood obesity appears to be related to broad factors, such as socio-economic status, and a picture of social economics must be painted before it can be related to childhood obesity. While much data exist to correlate facts with childhood obesity, other data are more circumstantial and are presented in this way for the reader to understand and draw conclusions.
Also discussed are factors that may further influence childhood obesity in the future.
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Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
Fax: +353 1 4100 980
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