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Given such observations, it is not surprising that at least one study has found turning off the television set to be a promising approach to prevention of childhood obesity.23 Particularly distressing are reports that food commercials stimulate "antisocial" behavior in children, not just inappropriate demands for advertised products. Beer commercials, for example, influence fifth- and sixth-graders to have more favorable beliefs about drinking, greater knowledge of beer brands and slogans, and more strongly stated intentions to drink beer as adults.
The well-financed promotion in schools of soft drinks and other foods of poor nutritional quality directly undermines federal efforts to improve the dietary intake of children and to reduce rates of childhood obesity. Even though colleges (and now entire cities, such as Huntington Beach, California) have become advertising vehicles for soft drink companies, elementary and secondary school students surely deserve some protection against commercial interests that contribute to poor nutrition outside of school, as well as within.
The increasing prevalence of childhood obesity results from complex interactions of societal, economic, demographic, and environmental changes that not only encourage people to eat more food than needed to meet their energy requirements but also encourage people to make less healthful food choices and act as barriers to physical activity. In part as a result of the overabundance of food in the United States, and the consequences of overabundance for the food industry, the diets of most American children do not come close to meeting nutritional recommendations.

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Thus we have decided that obesity can't be controlled because it is largely inbred at the same time that childhood obesity has skyrocketed, even as our society is ostensibly undergoing a physical fitness craze. Supposedly, Americans are more concerned with fitness than ever before; yet our kids are fatter than ever before (as well as frequently using drugs and alcohol). We are unable to get a handle on physical fitness for our society as a whole, and our health messages seem not to be reaching most of those with the worst health behaviors.
Problems rooted in ghetto life, in addition to substance abuse, include violence, childhood obesity, and the poor health of the fetus and newborn in America relative to every other industrialized nation in the world. And although these problems are worst in the ghetto, middle-class America also suffers from a version of each problem more severe than those found in other economically advanced countries.

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Indeed, childhood obesity seems to be associated more with inactivity than overeating, and strong evidence suggests that 80-86% of adult obesity begins in childhood. In the adult population, Brownell and Stunkard found that obese adults were less active than their normal-weighted counterparts.8 However, it is still unclear whether inactivity is a cause of obesity or a result of it.

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