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Part 1
Child Development 124
Article Review
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to review the article and reflect on how experiences can alter our genes.
Instructions
Please read the following article, Early Experiences Can Alter Gene Expression and Affect Long-Term Development.
Answer the following questions:How do experiences potentially alter our genes?
What are epigenetic modifications?
What are the potential impacts of stress on a child?
What are some things that can be done to reduce potential stress for children and parents?
List 2 things you found interesting and why?
Part 2
Child Development 125
W11 Discussion Childhood Obesity
Please Read the Week 11 Discussion Notes in the Learning Module First.
TV and obesity are not unrelated; children are sitting and watching rather than running and playing. And TV is the perfect time for ingesting unhealthy, fat producing snacks. Part of the joy of mindlessly watching TV is crunching something in your mouth. TV promotes increased consumption. Over 400 studies have now been done, one after another showing that TV time is coupled with both obesity and poor food choices in children and adults. Television viewing occupies a large portion of people’s lives, even infants and very young children. One well known statistic is that children graduating from high school have spent more hours in front of the TV than in school and this must be added to the hours they have spent with video games and computers. Children are in love with the computer. Surfing the internet, playing games, and connecting with friends occupy children for hours at a time, in some cases making television itself a thing of the past. To be a child no longer requires a trip to the library, the park, or a friend’s house. Here are 3 of the facts that you will read about in the notes for this week, these are a few that really stood out to me.
Children watching Saturday morning cartoons see a food commercial every five minutes.
34% of children with poor reading skills watched 6 hours or more of TV daily.
The average child sees 10,000 food advertisements a year. 95% are for fast food, sugary cereals, soft drinks, and candy.
Please read the notes on obesity in this week’s module then comment and post one more fact (other than the 3 that I just mentioned) that you learned from reading the notes. Pick a fact that really stood out to you or was most surprising.
Chapter 10 Discussion Notes
American children are growing heavier every year. Right now, 15.3 percent of 6 to 11 year olds and 15.5 percent of 12-19 year olds are considered obese, and estimates put 25-30 percent of our children are overweight according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Today’s children face a lifetime of serious health problems and a severely impaired quality of life if we as educators and parents don’t do something to decrease the increasing rates of childhood obesity in this country and around the world. The simple truth is; our kids eat too much sugar, fat, and calories have too few fruits, vegetables, and fiber; and exercise too little. Kids are developing type 2 diabetes before the age of 10, going blind from the complications, or needing coronary bypass surgery before age 25. Not every child will develop this way. Some will (a) have a protective biology that keeps them from gaining weight despite what they eat; (b) not be interested in food; or (c) be active enough to stay thin.
TV and obesity are not unrelated; children are sitting and watching rather than running and playing. And TV is the perfect time for ingesting unhealthy, fat producing snacks. Part of the joy of mindlessly watching TV is crunching something in your mouth. TV promotes increased consumption. Over 400 studies have now been done, one after another showing that TV time is coupled with both obesity and poor food consumption in children, adults, the U.S., Spain, Australia, and Mexico. Television viewing occupies a startling proportion of people’s lives, even with infants and very young children. One well known statistic is that children graduating from high school have accumulated more hours before the TV than in school and this must be added to the hours people spend with video games and computers. Children are love the computer. Surfing the internet, playing games, and connecting with friends occupy children for hours at a time, in some cases making television itself a thing of the past. To be a child no longer requires a trip to the library, the park, or a friend’s house. Here are some amazing TV statistics:
Children who families watch TV during mealtimes have poorer diets than those who do not.
A study of 229 preschoolers showed that even very young children recognize and remember brand logos.
A study of children ages six through eight found that 70 percent believed that fast foods were healthier than food from the home.
The risk of obesity in a preschool child increases by 6 percent for every hour of television he or she watches per day. If there is a TV in the child’s bedroom, the risk of being obese in increased by 31 percent.
Forty percent of McDonald’s advertising directly targets children.
Children watching Saturday morning cartoons see a food commercial every five minutes.
The vast majority are for sugared cereals, fast foods, soft drinks, sugary and salty snacks, and candy
Marketing to children has doubled since 1992. (about 12 billion per year on food advertising to children)
A study of Australian children ages nine to ten indicated that more than half of them believe that Ronald McDonald know best what children should eat.
34% of children with poor reading skills watched 6 hours or more of TV daily, compared with 6% of the best readers who watched that much TV.
Nearly half of all the foods advertised during children’s programming are cakes and candies. The average child sees 10,000 food advertisements a year. 95% are for fast food, sugary cereals, soft drinks, and candy.
About 12 billion a year is spent on advertising targeted at children. Children watching television during Saturday mornings view more than twice as many advertisements for unhealthy foods as adults see during programs aired after 9 p.m.
By age 70, the average person has spent 7 to 10 years watching TV.
The National Cancer Institute spends $1million per year on advertising the five a day program to encourage people to eat fruits and vegetables. That’s $1 million. In 1998, McDonald’s spent just more than $1 billion on advertising.
Required Supplemental Videos
Here is a 7 1/2 minute video about ADHD featuring what people with ADHD have to say about what ADHD is and what that is like.
And here is a 10 minute video explaining Autisum Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by Khan Academy
Optional Supplemental Video
Here is a 30 minute video from public television on child obesity (from 2013)
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