What is Our Role?

When we look at children we think about how much potential and a thriving future they hold.  We don’t even know the amount of potential they hold because it is so great.  Children can do more now than they ever could before.  Why would we want to hold anything back from them? If a child is malnourished and doesn’t not live a healthy lifestyle, these things can be taken away from them.  We have to start of the root and grow them properly.  Children need proper attention and constant nurturing to reach their full potential. 

As caretakers for these little ones we need to be looking for ways to intervene and prevent those unhealthy lifestyles.  We need to step up and find ways that we can influence and change those lives around us. 

The following article talks about the, “primary prevention of childhood obesity and has three aims: (1) to briefly describe current primary prevention approaches for childhood obesity and the evidence for their impact; (2) to elucidate promising, but untested intervention strategies using an ecological framework and evidence from experimental and epidemiological research on factors influencing children's eating and weight status; and (3) to introduce a multiphase strategy for screening intervention components and building and evaluating potent interventions for childhood obesity.”

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Birch, L. L., & Ventura, A. K. (2009). Preventing childhood obesity: what works?. International Journal Of Obesity, 33S74-S81. doi:10.1038/ijo.2009.22