St.+Cyr,+Erlynn

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__**The Problem**__: Is that children aren't getting enough exercise and that the rate of child obesity increases.
= Let's Move! "Move Your Body" Music Video with Beyoncé =

This is similar to Michelle Obama's "Let's Move campaign". It supports I First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! to help curb childhood obesity. NABEF stands for National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation.

My solution: Parents/Guardians and teachers should stick together and help fight child obesity.
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 * American Rapper "Fat Joe" discuss his experience with being overweight and how other people who are dealing with being obese can overcome it. **

__**My SAP Project**__

Erlynn St.Cyr 6/12/11 Jr. English Gr.11 Ms. Doherty

__ **Obesity in Children** __

“Mom, I made the Honor roll!” said Jack in excitement. “Can I h ave Mc. Donalds for a week

mom, you promised that if I made the Honor roll I can have Mc. Donalds for a week.” “Of course son

you can.” said Maria. This is a child’s dream to have Mc. Donalds for week it was mine as well, but is

eating too much fatty foods affecting childrens health? Yes! Most people I recently interviewed said t

hat obesity is when you're fat, that's partly right but it doesnt only deal with you weight it deals with

you health as well.

Between 16 and 33 percent of children and adolescents are obese.(7) The real reason to

why children are obese is because of poor diets and lack of exercise or outdoor activities this gradually

increases child obesity and also increase health problems. My solution to this problem is

Parents/Guardians should motivate children to have fun outdoors than indoors. Another Solution is that

teachers should play a role and encourage children to go to Recess and play. My Last solution is that

Parents/Guardians should be strict with their children concerning their health and physical activity.If

noone takes actions, one third of children whom are born in 2000 or later will likely get diabetes pr

any heart related diseases.(4)

Obesity in children is known as children whose body mass index also known as

(BMI) is more than or equal to the 95th percentile for children of the same gender according to //Alvin,//

//Dr. , Virginia B. Silverstein, and Robert Silverstein.// In other words, if children go over their limit they

will be considered as obese. The reason why obesity is a problem is because children are suffering from

heart related disease such as : High Cholesterol, hypertension, respiratory problems, depression at a

young age, diabetes (Type 2), and e.t.c. (3). These factors can lead to deaths, there's nearly 300,000

deaths each year. (7) This is obviously a ridiculous amount of deaths in children each year and we need

to stick together to decrease these outrageous numbers. Statistics show that about 17 percent of

American children ages 2-10 or 1 in 6 are obese. (8) Another reason to why child obesity is a huge

problem is that it will be passed down in their (children) genes. It is said that a child with an obese

parent, brother, sister and any family member is more likely to become obese according to

//emedicinehealth.//

The causes of obesity in children are lack of exercise and of course poor diets or a

combination of these factors. Lack of exercise is one of the two because children nowadays prefer to

stay home and play with any type of technology than go outside and play.(10) The more they stay home

and play video games, listen to music the higher the obesity rate will increase. For example, when a

child gets like a day or a two out of school they stay home all day and watch T.V, eat snacks, and play

with any type of technology waiting for the next couple days to arrive. I remember when I was in

kindergarten I used to get sent home for disrupting the class or fighting with other kindergarteners.

Instead of going outside and play with my Hasbro car or play with my tea sets I just sat in my little

chair in my house and watched Cartoon Network all day until my mother told me it was time for me to

go bed. I used to disrupt the class purposely so I can stay at home and watch cartoons all day with no

physical activity involved. This led to me being obese as well as me being depressed. The point I’m

trying to get across here is that staying home and not doing any type of movement can affect you later

in a negative way.

The second cause to child obesity is of course poor diet. Children are always in the mood for

Mc. Donalds or any type of fast food restaurant. You ask a child what time of food they would like to

eat the first thing they would say is Mc. Donalds. This is not a good thing, the child should say they

would like to eat “Mommy’s cooking” or something homemade. In my opinion I feel that the toys are

attracting children to eat so much fast foods because the Company make toys to attract children to buy

kids meal so they can get the toys. Almost everyday nearly one third of U.S children aged 14-19 are to

eat fast food and more likely adds an extra six pounds per child each year and increases the chances of

obesity. (11) “Millions of dollars are spent each year on fast food that intentionally attracts children”

( //lead author Dr. David Ludwig Director of the Obesity program at Children's Hospital Boston.)// From

what Dr. Ludwig just said, once canse find that Mco.Donalds, Burger King, or any major successful

fast food company can attract children as I said before. For instance, I remember my mom telling me a

story on how I used to eat Mc. Donalds everyday and that was the only thing I ate. That led the Doctor

to put me on a strict diet because I was beginning to be over my normal percentile (BMI) as I

mentioned earlier.

From this these causes can lead to serious effects such as depression and

heart/cholesterol problems and eventually death. Depression is an affect of child obesity because a

study has founded that children and young adults who have trouble with being overweight are likely to

have a high rate of depression than regular sized children.(12) I've gone through depression in my

middle school years because of my weight. My class mates would always call me a “chubby wubby”

penguin or “miss fatty” because my cheeks used to cover my whole face they would say. This affected

my self-esteem as it still does today. This happens to children who face the same problem I did when I

was younger. Depression can also affect the child's school studies because they may feel as if they

don’t fit in with everyone else because of their weight is not the same or equal to theirs.

Another effect of child obesity is heart- related illnesses such as High cholesterol,

hypertension, respiratory ailments, orthopedic problems, and depression. (8) These can also lead to

deaths. These illnesses have been increasing in children as obesity rates increase. Type 2 diabetes is a

disease that happens when your blood levels of glucose are too high. It is a big probleme that can lead

to serious health issues. Type 2 diabetes is common for children who suffer from obesity because

children are eating junk food than ever before.(13) Obesity in children puts them in danger of getting

high blood pressure and high cholesterol.(14)“Diabetes has doubles about 2.36 percent of child

hospitalization back in the late 90's.” according to Dan Collins.

People all over the U.S came up with so many solutions to prevent child obesity. Does it

work? Hopefully in a couple of years the lives of children will be safer and healthier. For example

Michelle Obama's “//Lets move”// campaign is a campaign launched by the Fist Lady to encourage

children to do something active not every day but once in a while to get into the habit of going outside

and playing outside. The campaign gives Parents/Guardians information on what actions to do to direct

their children to the right path. I feel that this campaign is one of the best campaigns I've researched

because it has so many interesting things about it. For example, American Singer Beyonce took part in

this project. She made a music video that makes children get up and dance even me!. “The physical and

emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our nation is at stake”

(//First Lady Michelle Obama at the Let’s Move! launch on February 9, 2010// ) (4). From this you can

tell that Michelle Obama is trying to say that the children lives are at stake if we don’t stick together

and stop it as well as their health. I feel that this campaign needs to have a commercial and should play

it on every children channel to attract children from their seats and take part in this campaign.

Another common solution that everyone says is to exercise, but is exercising going to

help decrease obesity? Well yeah it will but will kids think that exercising is fun? No. When a child

thinks of exercising they think of something Mom or Dad used to do. Parents/Guardians should bring t

them to the park or any fun field event that would attract children. For example, Six Flags is one great

place to bring a child to decrease obesity and help prevent them from staying at home eating on snacks

or watching their favorite television show.

My solution to this problem is that Parents/Guardians should bring their children out

more often, because nowadays parents have no time to spend with their children which partly will get t

them to watch T.V all day. Parents should also motivate their children to do something that has to deal

with Physical Activity than rewarding them with food or electronics each time they do something

positive. This makes children think that it's alright to stay inside to eat snacks and play with video

games unless they're doing something good. Another solution is that Parents/Guardians should take t

their children to school by walking with them. Walking them to school will get them o get used to it

and want to walk to school everyday. Bus rides and cars prevents children from working their muscles.

Teachers should also play a major role in their students lives. They should encourage children to go to

recess and enjoy themselves. Instead of staying inside and writing “I will not talk in Mr. Glee's class”

one hundred times in detention, teachers should bring them outside and run three laps around the s

school. I think my solution is better than the others and will help bring about positive changes because I t's different than any other solution out there. Everyone’s else solution is almost the same thing, but

mine is interesting and can interest Parents/guardians even children.

In conclusion, child obesity has been increasing rapidly over the past 30 years and its time for

us to make a change. Children are obese because of lack of exercise and poor health choices. To

prevent from it getting higher than it is. Parents should encourage their children to play outside and

feed them a good portion meal.


 * Initial Proposal**

__//**Social Issue/problem**//__My social issue is on obesity in children and in Adults and how the number continues to increase each year with lack of physical activity Physical activity helps maintain good health and without it they're not maintaing good health but bad health instead. The problem around this issue is that many oeople are suffering with heart disease and diabetes because they prefer to stay indoors and play video games, watch t.v, and or eat on fatty snacks, with no outdoor exercise in between.Games is one of the reasons to people being overweight because they will be more focused on the game then outside. What level is there to beat outside? If this continues we will lose not only our children but the children will lose the meaning of life as well. //This is a good topic. You might want to focus on just children, but you could focus on both. Maybe your solution could involve family activities, something that would help the adults and children.//

I feel that less electronics and television and more outdoor activities can help solve the problem because it'll help the health. Another solution to this problem is to give yourslef a limit to how much games you can play a day. For example, you can play video games once a week and do something fun outside of the house then inside. If we all work together this can decrease heart disease and e.t.c. We need to make time for ourselves and find a way to have time for physical activity as well by going out and playing hockey,soccer, and e.t.c Finally, another solution that can help this problem is if we feed on less fat and more vegetables. Vegetables have many vitamins and is very helpful to maintain good health especially children who like to eat fatty foods everyday. //So you are proposing more exercise and a better diet, which is something that all health experts promote. Try to think of a creative solution that would get people to break the strong habits they have now--also, time is a factor for a lot of people. They say they don't have time to cook and exercise--you might need to work to find solutions that show it doesn't take as much time to eat healthy and exercise as people think.//
 * __//Tentative solution to this problem//__**

My purpose of writing is to not only to persuade children and Adults to go outside and enjoy mother nature but to change the numbers of obesity in America. We don't want to be the number one nation with obese in the world. It'll be better if we were the number one nation that participates in physical activity instead. Another reason to why i'm writing this is to influence children that they can go out there and have fun with exercise. Exercise is not only push-ups and jump and jacks, You can make dance moves with friends and share them with other people. You can have levels in soccer from easy to extremely hard, You can play hide-and-seek and find the person who's hiding behind a tree. There are so many fun things you can do outside, even when the weather's horrible there's something you can do outside! //Do you think you want to focus primarily on children? That is a good focus if you choose it, and it might help to make your topic more focused.//
 * __//Purpose for writing//__**


 * //__Research Action Plan__//**

For my research action plan i will need eight sources for my solution paper. One of the eight sources must be print sources. Three need to be elctronical materials like databases and one through four must me other resources such as interviews, surveys, and e.t.c. To find theses sources i would look in the IRC when our class has a chance to go and use the class time wisely instead of talking with my classmates. The steps i would take to find these sources is to use the library for databases and print sources, and my electronic sources i can use my House computer. I will complete my initial research for my solution paper by May 13, 2011. I need 42 note cards for my solution paper. The steps i need to take to reach my note card goal is to to do a little everyday because if i wait till the very last moement to do them it would be impossible for me to finish. I will complete my note cards and annotaed works cited for my solution paper by May 19, 2011 //Good plan, detailed and you show you understand it.//

Erlynn, this is well done. You are thinking in your writing here, which is exactly what you should be doing now. Be sure you have some clear questions to research and that you are working to find a solution that goes beyond just telling people to get outside and exercise and eat better. You might want to focus specifically on children, but you don't need to. I think they have done studies that show childhood obesity is on the rise, and it's largely due to electronic games and things like that (which is what you started out talking about). (on time)

__My Intermediate Reflection __

===My original solution in my proposal to children obesity was to find something that would encourage children to play more outside than inside. Better outdoor activities would attract children to be outside. Finally, the foods; we need motivational speakers to come and talk to children about the dangers of being overweight and the risks of it. //**(do you think motivational speakers will really be enough to keep students active and eating the right foods over the long term?)**//===

===My solution is still feasible because the government can provide better programs for children whom are suffering with overbesity or children who are making their way there to being overweight. For example the "Let's Move" campaign by Lady Obama is one great way to make kids enjoy the outdoors. By this we can not only save our children's lives but our lives as well.===

===Because of lack of physical activity and poor diets, too many American children are overweight. My solution to the issue of overweight children, is to variety of programs that children can choose from so that after a while children won't be "bored" with the program they can move to another one. **//(good idea to think of introducing variety. where would these activities be offered? are you going to address diet as well?)//**===

=== The audience that I'm trying to reach are the children who get "bored" and decide that eating and playing games inside are "fun". My solution has advice and stuff you can do to help children from being obese and ways that we can bring the increase numbers of obesity children decrease. ===

__//Research//__

 * The increasing numbers of obese children
 * Children's opinion about exercising
 * How we can prevent obese from increasing
 * The effects of being obese
 * how my solution can change the face of America

I still need to know :

 * 1) Children's point of view on poor diets
 * 2) Adults point of view on their Children being obese.

**__Strategies__**
=Causes/effects: this will help me find out the causes of being overweight and the effects of being overweight.= =Statistics: This will help me see the numbers of american children being obese.= =Definition: I can make people understand the realy meaning of obesity and the dangers of it and e.t.c= =Anecdote: I can let people hear from other people's experience with being obese. (**//this is a good choice)//**=

__Annotated Bibliography__

 * 1) ==**"Preventing and Treating Childhood Obesity." //World Book Science Year// 1 Aug. 2009: 5. //eLibrary//. Web. 20 May 2011. This article is about the causes and affects of childhood obesity and how we can prevent it from increasing. (tags: //none// | [|edit tags]) **==
 * 2) ==Fruhbeck, Gema. "Childhood obesity: Time for action, not complacency." //British Medical Journal (International edition)// 5 Feb. 2000: 4. //eLibrary//. Web. 20 May 2011. this article is about the stiduiews of obesity and the programs that can help limit it. It also tells you what you can do to lose fat. ==
 * 3) ==Meerschaert, Carol. "Managing obesity in children." //American Dietetic Association (Journal of the American Dietetic Association)// 1 Sept. 2002: 3. //eLibrary//. Web. 20 May 2011. this article is about the BMI of children and how it generally increases. It also describes the effects of childhood obesity and how you can notice it. Finally, it talks about the foods that doesn't really help obesity. (**tags:** //none// | **[|edit tags]** ==
 * 4) =="Eat Healthy | Let's Move!." //Let's Move!//. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 May 2011. . this is one campaign that can keep children on their feet! (**tags:** //none// | **[|edit tags]**) ==
 * 5) ==St.Cyr, Rose. Personal interview. 26 May 2011. my om describes here experiences with being overweight when she was a child. (**tags:** //none// | **[|edit tags]**) ==
 * 6) ==Alvin, Dr., Virginia B. Silverstein, and Robert Silverstein. //So you think you're fat?//. New Jersey: Harper Collins, 1991. Print. this book represents the causes and effects of being overweight, anorexic, and e.t.c and how we can manage to deal with it. (**tags:** //none// | **[|edit tags]**) ==
 * 7) =="Obesity In Children And Teens | American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry." //American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry//. American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, n.d. Web. 12 June 2011. . this states the statistics of obesity ==
 * 8) =="Why Obesity is a Health Problem for Families and Children." //National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute//. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, n.d. Web. 12 June 2011. . provides statistics and facts (**tags:** //none// | **[|edit tags]**) ==
 * 9) =="Obesity in Children." //Emedicinehealth//. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June 2011. . has information on child obesity (**tags:** //none// | **[|edit tags]**) ==
 * 10) ==" Search Results child obesity Search for child obesity ¦ CEA Digital Dialogue." //CEA Digital Dialogue//. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June 2011. . (**tags:** //none// | **[|edit tags]**) ==
 * 11) =="Fast Food Linked To Child Obesity." //cbsnews//. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June 2011. . explains how fat food relates to child obesity. (**tags:** //none// | **[|edit tags]**) ==
 * 12) ==Clayson, Mark . "Childhood Obesity and Depression." //EzineArticles Submission - Submit Your Best Quality Original Articles For Massive Exposure, Ezine Publishers Get 25 Free Article Reprints//. Dr. Mark Clayson , n.d. Web. 12 June 2011. . describes depression as being an effect to child hood obesity. (**tags:** //none// | **[|edit tags]**) ==
 * 13) =="Effects of Childhood Obesity." //Weight Loss Home Page//. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June 2011. . explains diseases caused by obesity. (**tags:** //none// | **[|edit tags]**) ==
 * 14) =="Type 2 Diabetes - By Category." //diabetes.about//. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June 2011. . describes types of diabetes. (**tags:** //none// | **[|edit tags]**) ==
 * 15) ==Collins, Dan . "Childhood Obesity A Serious Problem." //cbsnews//. N.p., 11 Feb. 2009. Web. 12 June 2011. . diabetes back then and diabetes now. (**tags:** //none// | **[|edit tags]**) ==