PSYCH 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hypertension, Stereotype, Childhood Obesity
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Middle childhood, ages 7 11, is generally a happy, healthy time of life. Obesity causes more deaths worldwide than malnutrition (see visualizing. Rates have stabilized in the u. s. since 2000, but 1/3 of children are overweight & 18% are obese (see figure 11. 2). Prevalence of being overweight among children 6 11 years old has increased more than. Average american child spends 3-4 hours a day watching tv! Several studies suggest a positive association between tv & obesity. Watching 1 hour of tv a day increases risk of childhood obesity by 60% (deboer et al. , 2015) Some possibilities : tv displaces physical activity, increased consumption of food while watching tv, advertising encourages poor food choices, reduction in resting metabolism. Tv advertising of unhealthy foods correlates with childhood obesity except in nations where few children watch tv. Obese children are more likely to be obese adults!
