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As childhood obesity is a present and future threat to America?
I’m doing a research paper on CHILDHOOD obesity for my English class. I already have the causes, consequences, prevention and statistics of obesity in children. All I need to leave now, as childhood obesity is a present or future threat to America. Any ideas or links to articles will be highly appreciated.
Rather or not one supports the currents wars that America is in, we do need a military and the obesity of children will threaten our ability to protect ourselves in the future. The military has released reports stating a lot of recruits have been turned away due to their physical condition.
Also, being overweight increases the health problems in kids which could lead to more days missed at school. Our education system is already struggling to educate kids so the more school a kid misses do to illnesses, the least likely he/she is going to grow up to be a doctor, engineer, scientist, inventor, etc. Then there’s payment of the illnesses, cost of insurance will go up for everyone.
So not only will be not be able to protect ourselves from outside forces, we won’t be able to support or care for ourselves, we will be at the mercy of other powerful nations, and that is never a good thing.