Program Design on Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity has become a very serious epidemic today, it is estimated that about 16.3% of children all over the world are obese.in the past four decades the rate of obesity for children that are aged between 6 and 11 years has gone up by more than four times.it is a serious pandemic since obese children are likely to suffer health consequences not only in their childhood and adolescence but also throughout their lives as adults. They are at risk for problems of joints and bones, sleep apnea, psychological and social problems, health diseases, type II diabetes, cancer, osteoarthritis, and stroke. Childhood obesity is an epidemic that cuts across the lines of ethnicity, family income, and race however, there are certain populations that are at a higher risk as compared to others. Some of the populations that are at risk include Latinos, African Americas, Native Americans and low income individuals.

As we have seen the issue of childhood obesity is a serious that needs urgent attention. Therefore there is need for the creation of a program design elements on childhood obesity.

Mission statement

The mission statement of this program is "eliminating obesity from the lives of our children." We have seen that obesity has become a common disorder among our children today. Therefore there is the need of taking the necessary steps to ensure that there is a reduction of the number of obese children in the world today. This calls for measures to be taken against the increased trend of obese children and instead ensuring that children are living lifestyles that will help in the prevention of obesity. The mission statement of the program should be embraced by all stakeholders involved including children, their parents, teachers and the entire community. If embraced we will surely see a reduction in cases of children with obesity in the near future.

Goal(s)

There are several goals which are involved in this program. The goals include bringing down the number of children with obesity in the world...

This means that the aim of the program is to bring down or prevent any more children from this disease. This is because obesity among children has been on an upward trend and therefore there is the need to ensure that the numbers go down as quickly as possible. Therefore the main aim of the program is to reduce childhood obesity in the world today. Another goal is to sensitize all the stakeholders involved on the how dangerous childhood obesity is and the reasons why they should ensure that children are supposed to be prevented from this disease as much as possible. Another goal is to sensitize the stakeholders involved on how they can easily prevent childhood obesity. With this goal the program will be able to make it clear on the roles that each of the stakeholders has to play when it come to dealing with the obesity pandemic among our children (Pekruhn, 2010).
Objectives

There are various objectives of this program that are geared towards the reduction of childhood obesity among children. These objectives include;

1. To get children a healthy start of life

This first objective involves recommendations for mother getting good prenatal care, supporting breastfeeding, adhering to limits on screen time and childcare that involves giving nutritious food to children as well as offering them opportunities of being physically active. This will also require setting of goals that will see the increase of the amounts of fruits children eat to about 75% of the level that is recommended by 2015 with subsequent increases in the years that follow. Another thing involved in this objective is ensuring that there is an increase in the uptake of vegetables in children and at the same time decrease the amounts of sugar that is added to many of the products.

2. To empower parents and caregivers

The second objective involves educating parents and caregivers with food menus and nutritional labels that are easy to read and at the same time adhere to the dietary guidelines in the world. There should also be an…