Causes Of Childhood Obesity

Many different factors contribute to the cause of childhood obesity. These can be split into modifiable and non-changeable causes.

Modifiable:

• Low family income and unemployed parents


•Over-exposure to adverts of junk food and video games/tv programmes

•Lack of physical activity

•Anything that takes up time which could be spend doing physical activity. E.g. watching TV or playing video games.

•Eating high calorie and high in fat foods. Also eating snacks when you are not actually hungry


Non-Changeable:

•If you have overweight or obese parents you may be more genetically prone to obesity.

Refernce: American Obesity Association-http://www.obesity.org/subs/childhood/