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Childhood Obesity
  • Everardo Mora
  • Electronic Research Lib.  15
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Symptoms
  • Body weight well over average Body Mass Index
  • High Blood Pressure
  • Reduced physical and social activity
  • Depression




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Causes
  • Genetic Factors
  • Eating disorders
  • Sedentary Lifestyle
  • High Glycemic diet
  • Stress
  • Over eating


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Other causes
  • Television
  • Video games
  • Internet and myspace
  • Lack of parental supervision and support
  • Junk and take out food


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Treatment
  • Exercise
  • Drugs—to reduce intestinal fat deposits
  • Bariatric Surgery
  • Diets and exercise together
  • Counseling for depression


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Tools used to gather information
  • Used EVC library Databases
  • Searched and applied CARS and other evaluation techniques for website credibility and reasonableness
  • Found web sources to be useful and learned to navigate and cite web sources effectively



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Works cited
  • Doyeon, Kim, Kravitz, Len. “Childhood Obesity: prevalence, treatment and prevention:
  • become an advocate for kids by taking a leadership role in the war on obesity.(research). IDEA Fitness Journal 4.1 (Jan 2007): 22(3). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale Group Databases. Evergreen Valley College Lib. 12 May 2007 < http://0-find.galegroup.com.library.sjeccd.org/itx/retrieve.do?subjectParam=>.


  • Glazer, Sarah. “Slow Food Movement.” CQ Researcher 17.4 (2007). CQ Researcher Online. CQ Press. Evergreen Valley College San Jose, CA. 10 May 2007 <http://0-library.cqpress.com.library.sjeccd.org:80/cqresearcher/cqresrre2007012600>.


  • Greenblatt, Alan. “Obesity Epidemic.” CQ Researcher 13.4 (2003): 73-104. CQ
  • Researcher Online. CQ Press. Evergreen Valley College Library, San Jose, CA. 13 May 2007 <http://0-library.cqpress.com.library.sjeccd.org:80/cqresearcher/cqresrre2003013100>.