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Research on Childhood Obesity in Middle Childhood

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Imagine that your agency has asked you to research the growing incidence of obesity in middle childhood. Examine its causes, its impact (on children's health, psychosocial, and cognitive development) and ways to counteract it. What solutions, if any, are schools, community organizations and social service agencies in your area providing? What else could or should be done? What educational or other programs could be developed to help solve the problem?

I have to right a 3-5 page paper on childhood obesity and these are some of the questions I have to answer.

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This soltuion provides assistance on researching the growing incidence of obesity in middle childhood. It examines its causes, its impact (on children's health, psychosocial, and cognitive development) and ways to counteract it. It examines potential solutions, if any, that the schools, community organizations and social service agencies are/could provide as well as other things that could or should be done, Finally, educational or other programs are explored that could be developed to help solve the problem of child obesity in middle childhood.

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