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This article explains the risks of childhood obesity. It is a growing problem around the world and it usually begins within the family. It also give tips about preventing and potential reversing the obesity.

This article talks about how Childhood hunger doesn't exclude the US as well. It shares ways you can help out in providing these children the meals they need.

A child's weight is their own weight meaning only they can be the ones to properly exercise to have the correct weight. The only way to prevent childhood obesity is based off of the responsibility of the child. The prevention is known to be a struggle especially because exposure to unhealthy foods are everywhere.

The article indicates that the issue with our society and how it relates to childhood obesity is in how we treat the issue, as a separate entity from all other health issues wherein the child and family receive support and resources on how to help prevent and treat their ailment. In America a child faced with Obesity is treated with distain despite the fact that the food and lifestyle pushed at them in every facet of their life is unhealthy and ultimately results in obesity and the article clearly aims to show the reader that the way in which we shift blame should reflect back at societies stigmatization rather than blame the child. How did you conclude that the child is solely responsible for their own obesity from reading the article?

This is a summary of discussions and presentations that took place in 2011 to review ways we can prevent childhood obesity.

Vaccines have made many childhood diseases rare today's day in age. There are some small risks, but the benefits out number the amount of risks. The only time a child should not be vaccinated is if they have a serious disease like cancer or HIV.

The article goes over many of the issues that parents, teachers, and children are having with common core. Parents are noticing children having an increased stressed level which they attribute to common core. In the authors opinion, teachers are required to follow a script, for fear of job loss. Some programs have also been cut from school like PE and Music.

This article is about the personal freedom right down to cookie monster himself and societies attempt at recreating him and destroying thousand of childhoods at the same time. If cookie monster isn't eating cookies anymore, than who are we?

Michelle Obama fighting the government to provide healthier choses in our schools. As part of her anti-childhood obesity campaign she works with schools to get more vegetables onto the menu and cut back on salt, sugar and fat. Schools need better nutrition and the first lady is going to fight for our kids.

What is a vaccine? When germs enter the body, the immune system recognizes them as foreign substances (antigens). The immune system then produces the right antibodies to fight the antigens. Vaccines contain weakened or dead versions of the antigens that cause diseases.

Vaccines put weakened versions of the disease in the body to strengthen the immune system. They are called antibodies, and help the body from catching future diseases.

Child labor is very wrong and should be stopped. Children are being forced to work in terrible conditions and are being deprived of their childhood.

obesity is a social issue because it is closely linked with discrimination. A person is easily viewed differently not only by their looks but most commonly, their weight. They are seen as lazy, slow, and ugly just because they are a different size.

Childhood obesity can cause a kids mental health to go bad. It is very common for a child to get made fun of by other children because of their weight. The negativity the child is receiving will soon result in a low self esteem, depression, and more.

Child obesity is a serious issue that I believe isn't being addressed. Obesity is lower in high income houses but in lower income houses it increases. Obesity affects 1 in 5 children.

Even though child labor laws were passed decades ago prohibiting employment of underage youngsters, pockets of oppressive child labor exist, literally, on American soil; child farm laborers work long hours in squalid conditions and often receive half the standard minimum wage.

This is a very strong topic. Mostly because children can't really speak up, and we are the ones that need to do it for them. You're childhood should be something you enjoy and not have to struggle through. And the fact that they are always taken advantage of, with low wages and horrible working conditions, makes it an extreme priority in social justice issues.

Today, close to 250 million children are working in the world. More than 150 million of these children are working in dangerous conditions. Additionally, each year more than 1 million of these children will be victims of human trafficking. Child labour refers to any work or activity that deprives children of their childhood.

Child labor is one of the common issues in the world. Children loose childhood to work for food.

children should not have to work all they should do is worry about going to school. parents and people who should be taking care of them need to be held countable. children are loosing out of a lot of thing because of this/

Today, children in the United States routinely get vaccines that protect them from more than a dozen diseases such as measles, polio, and tetanus. Most of these diseases are now at their lowest levels in history, thanks to years of immunization. Children must get at least some vaccines before they may attend school.

Original: Up through the early 1920's, diphtheria was one of the most dreaded childhood diseases in the United States, killing over 10,000 people every year. We started vaccinating children against diphtheria in the 1930's and 40's, and the disease started disappearing. Today it is rare for a doctor even to see a case of diphtheria, much less have a child die from it. Paraphrase: Killing over 10,000 people a year in the U.S, diphtheria proved to be one of the most feared youth diseases up until the early 1920's. Once doctors began vaccinating children for diphtheria in the 1930's the disease began to vanish. In today's world it is rare for a doctor to see a patient with diphtheria thanks to common vaccinations.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that healthy children get vaccinated. There is no evidence that proves vaccinations cause autism. Vaccines are required for children who go to school.

Allowing the body to create antibodies naturally from catching a disease has much more severe risks than getting a vaccine. The risk for a potentially dangerous outcome decreases when getting a vaccination rather than acquiring the disease naturally.