Summary: The Increase Of Childhood Obesity

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Sara E Benjamin, Angie Cradock, Elizabeth M Walker, Meghan Slining and Matthew W Gillman purpose is to provide insight on regulations concerning childhood obesity in child care centers. They touch on the increase of childhood obesity and the resulting health problems arising because of it. They emphasize that although genetic factors are relevant, it's the increase in consumption of sweetened beverages that is at great fault for childhood obesity. Other factors that play an important role in the increase of childhood obesity is offering food as a reward. As well as television and screen time, mostly because there is a shown decrease of physical activity resulting from it. They stress that child care centers play an important role in the nutrition