In Wilkinson’s book chapter three looks three distinct influences and causes for obesity in youth ranging from family, peers, and society. He describes that parents have a big impact in preadolescents but once the child reaches adolescents and beyond there influence begins to shift to their peers acceptance. Once a child hits adolescents and past they begin to worry about how their peers begin to see them and worry more about how they would be viewed by their friends as well as people in their school. From this point Wilkinson takes a look at the various things that adolescents have access to things that are high-dense food rather than selling things that are healthier to students do to being able to receive more of a profit from the sales. …show more content…
Sure they wont be able to have those foods at home but once they go to school or a friend’s house, or in general to a place that they can have those types of food they tend to do so. To me it seems that Wilkinson is trying to say that we do need to be careful what we allow our children to eat but at the same time we cannot just tell them they cant have those foods because they are going to eat them anyways. Another cause that parents have on obesity especially in adolescents is allowing them to watch to much television because they themselves watch too much television, so parents today are setting the wrong example to their children but not just in this sense also when it comes to physical exercise. Parents need to show that they are willing to put in the work in order to be healthy to get their children to do the same thing how can they tell their child to do some thing when I fact they cant even do it