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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

home cooking, child obesity, children's health, health concerns

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Sociology

Abstract

After careful consideration and several discussions with my faculty advisor about potential projects, I set out to tackle the problem of child obesity. I began my project by extensively reviewing previous literature on the issue. Child obesity is rapidly becoming one of the most prevalent health concerns in the U.S. In fact, the World Health Organization estimates nearly a quarter of U.S. adolescents are overweight or obese, and projected numbers suggest a dramatic raise in the future (Morrill and Chin, 2004). Childhood obesity rates are particularly worrisome in the Southern region of the United States, where 23% of children suffer from obesity. To date, researchers have been unable to adequately explain why children in some regions of the U.S. are more prone to obesity than in other regions.

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