Question

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Describe three things that could be done in your community to reduce childhood obesity.

Answer 1

A community health nurse can do some interventions to reduce childhood obesity in her community. The three major things are

1. Promote exclusive breast feeding during the first 6 months of a child's life. Although there is a recommendation for exclusive breastfeeding among people , a proper awareness is lacking about the tremendous benefits of exclusive breastfeeding. Home visits and survey will help to detect people who are not in exclusive breastfeeding and can facilitate awareness among them about the benefits of breast feeding and drawbacks of introducing semisolid food in earlier infancy.

2.conducting cooking demonstration in community . This will create a genuine live awareness on healthy nutrition for kids. A nurse can provide list of high protein food stuffs, demonstrate with it and give samples to families. Also she must tell about the importance of avoiding junkfoods, oil rich foods, baking foods and sweet bewerages which are the major cause of child hood obesity.

3. Conducting Health education on avoiding childhood sedentary life habits and importance of physical activities. Engaging physical activities and plays will reduce obeSity in children. Sedentary life style will contribute to serious health issues in early adulthood itself like coronary artery disease. Physical activities also gives mental freshness and peer group mingling which will promote behavioural modification .

These 3 things will help to reduce childhood obesity in children.