ANSWER 1: Supersizing kids means obesity among children,
increasing our children's size day by day is supersizing children.
Nowadays, it has become a great health issue among children in
America. All this is due to fast food, parents' negligence, and
working parents. Toxic environment, peer pressure, installed soda
or other food bank at different places all are responsible for
making supersizing kids.
There are different factors or reason that attribute in
supersizing kids:
- Negligence of parents.
- more encouraging them to eat fast food rather than preparing
homemade food
- food advertisment
- unhealthy lifestyle
- poor eating habits
- sedentary lifestyle
- spending more time on TV and phone, instead of playing
outside.
ROLE OF SCHOOL, PARENTS, AND COMMUNITY IN PREVENTION OF
SUPERSIZING CHILDREN:
- Create awareness
- set healthy lifestyle
- school should arrange physical activities, sports period,
etc
- set parents' teachers meeting for setting a healthy schedule
for children.
- avoid giving them phone and TV for long hours
- encourage to go outside for play
- more encourage to eat homemade food
- arrange physical education classes.
- health appraisal, check BMI, and weight.
ANSWER 2: In long term facility elderly people have to face so
many problems this will lead to declining their health, loss of
weight, loss of muscle mass, contracture, joint pain, memory loss,
loss on interest, unwillingness to live life, depression, and other
psychological changes. We can help in many ways:
- Provide them respect, care with dignity, have some courtesy,
and values their belief and thoughts.
- Assess their feeding pattern, likes, and dislikes in food.
- give chance to select their favorite food for themselves.
- Plan a menu with the collaboration of dieticians.
- provide counseling and give chance to share their own
feelings.
- provide a calm, quiet environment, allow them to involve more
in the group, interact with each other.
- Encourage them to participate in their one self-care
activities, make the decision making.
- Hire high skilled staff, provide a positive environment and
provide training to elderly people and social skill training.
- Provide high-quality care, holistic care and comprehensive care
to the elderly.
- provide hygiene and sanitation to elderly people.
- provide small but frequent foods with supplementation if
required
- check vitals, weight, BMI at a regular intervals, arrange for
health appraisal.