Obesity is a worldwide issue, especially for children. Children who have gained extra body weight are at risk of deeloping variiety of diseases such as risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, sleep apnea, and stroke when they grow older.
The goal of our site is to provide information that can help children understand and lower the risk of “obesity” :
THE GOALS OF OUR SITE ARE:
1. To provide information and resources about obesity.
2. To explain causes, effects, and ways to prevent obesity.
3.To Explain how to live a healthy life and different ways to exercise.
4.To explore cultural influences on lifestyle and obesity rates
5. To help learn about healthy nutrition and choices
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SITE ORGANIZATION AND TOOLS
To move around our site use our main menu on the left. The site is divided into main topics. These are blue buttons with graphic text. Clicking on these buttons will take you to the main topic page. In the green boxes below are links to subtopics in the section above. Here you can explore more about each main topics. Many suptopic pages also have links for more exploration. These are located on the right. Once you get to explore more pages you can return to the subsection page you were on or to the main section page.
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AUDIENCE
Kids our age should know about obesity because at a young age you can easily be distracted from living a healthy lifestyle. Many kids in America play video games all day and eat junk food. Obesity is becoming epidemic. It is important to prevent kids our age from becoming obese. Therefore, we created the site for children and students of all ages and their parents and teachers.We hope that our site will help them find information and resources about nutrition, excercise and develping a healthy lifesyle.
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