Fighting childhood
obesity : it's a family affair
(Summary)
In view of the
increasing weight ratio for children in the United State. Most of the parents
don't know how to deal with their children about their weight. Because it's
hard for the families to tell their kids that they are over weight. And in the
same time they don't want their kids lose their self-confidence or feel badly.
So this article which written by Sara Verney in the National Public Radio (NPR)
talked about Packard Pediatric Weight Control Program which was founded to help family to solve this
problem .
Packard Pediatric Weight
Control Program was design on traffic light theme and divided into three colors
the red is for cake and cookies soda and some junk food. The yellow and the
green was for food are not banned. As a real example Sara talk about story of
child called Gabriel and how the program was helping him to lose weight , also
she say that the doctor was with him from the beginning so he know about his
weight and what will happen recently. The main problem was that the parents
can't talk with their children because the don't want them change their images
about themselves and it may affect them negatively. But the best way to solve
this problem as she mentioned in the article that all the family have to be
part of this program and they also have to apply on this program with their
kids as a kind of support.
Since 1999, about 80 percent
of the kids who apply for this program they have a new body with original
weight and they achieved their goal.
