can childhood obesity be a topic for a persuasive speech?
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What are you trying to persuade someone to do? \nI don't see how this can be.
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Supersize Me.  It's a lot about McDonald's but it really shows how obesity affects your quality of living.
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a topic for a speech could be Should the driving age be raised....why? Give example.
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A tax on soft drinks as a way to combat obesity will not work.  Neither will a tax on fast food or junk food.  People have to be educated about diet and exercise and that will take time, just like it did with smoking and second hand smoke.  Perhaps warning labels should be placed prominently on super sized portions of french fries, soda pop and double cheeseburgers similiar to the warning labels on packs of cigarettes.  The battle against obesity begins early at home.  My beloved mother did not allow us kids to eat junk food, drink pop or sit all day in front of the TV.  This tax proposal is nothing more than a posse of politicians trying to make it look like they are doing something about a serious problem.
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How about the incidence of eating disorders among young women?  Or the reasons to support use of medicinal cannabis?  Or is world overpopulation real or is it an urban myth?\n\nThere are more suggestions at this site.  Good luck with your speech.
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Yes there is. We need to get kids more active. Kids spend too much time watching TV and playing video games. They should spend more time playing outside. Fast food is also a problem, it is high in fat with little nutrition.
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Honestly...have you been completely oblivous over the last 5 years? Have you been hiding in a shell?  All we see on Television is ways of combating Obesity. I dont thinks it necessary for me to answer this!
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They sometimes get teased by their friends for not being capable in doing physical exercise and simply just for being fat or for eating too much. But one needs to know which friend are just joking and which are being mean. Usually obesity are caused by doting parents who thinks that making their child obese means that they really care about their child. All kids cry for food as a toddler, but parents need to make their stand clear and be mindful of how much the child really needs to keep healthy and fit. So I guess, society should start at these parents first and then the children when they grow a little older and are more mindful about their surroundings
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I'm a high school teacher, and I think it would be interesting to look at eating disorders among high school athletes, particularly wrestlers.  There is tremendous pressure on these young men to maintain their weight and ranking.  There has been enough written and research regarding young women, but I think that school-sanctioned disordered eating patterns in wrestlers and football players needs to be investigated.
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NO.Children's metabolisms are not ready for that kind of product in any way shape or form. They need their fats to power their minds and growth. it is for serious athlete's to use under supervision.\n\nCraig - Naturopath
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I think you have your thesis: The subject has two sides. Maybe try something like: Gastric bypass surgery is a controversial technique with both benefits and risks.
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i got these websites just by running a quick yahoo search.  obesity is a devasting disease.  you might just try interviewing a few overweight people  for your project as well.  They will have some things to tell you about being overweight and the problems they face.  not just the discrimination, the name calling, the looks we get, but also the problems with shopping, the problems at restraunts, public transportation, health issues, there are so many things out there that the general public does not understand.  they just say well why dont you just lose the weight?  it is not that simple.  Just sit down and talk to a few besides doing the "normal" book work.  You might just get enlightened and have a whole new appreciation for people of another size.
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most definitely...obesity in children can cause juvenile diabetes, plus it puts a strain on the heart.
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If I could give a coherent, provable explanation to your question I would not post it here but sell it to on of the many companies that are trying  to produce anti-obesity drugs. \nYour question can at this point of time not be answered, we do not have enough knowledge of either the genetic nor environmental influences on obesity and how they interact. \nThat said, of course there is data on a lot of connections between genetic factors and weight as well as environmental factors and weight in humans.
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i am in the same position as you. It's not fair is it!!\nUnfortunately for us, I doubt we will lose weight when we have kids. We will more likely put it on.\n\nI just think that at least we will have an excuse for being fat when we have kids! We can just blame them and make them repay us in hugs!! :)
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The root cause? Poor parenting skills. Letting kids choose to eat bad food, or even choosing it for them. Not instilling good eating habits and good food choices from day one into the child.  This is aided by a plethora of advertising aimed at children (sugary, fried and fast food) with toy and movie tie-ins.\nThe results? A lifetime of being overweight, unhealthy and discriminated against.
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point out the growing number of obese children in the world\n\nor the benefits of exercise, like, it increases indorphins that make you feel better, therefore increasing the likely hood of a child not becoming anitscocial, and may help prevent underage smoking.\n\nor you could argue the fact that exersice increase brain activity, therefore stimulating ones learning abilities.