DQ 2

One of the difficulties of changing childhood eating habits is the uncertain degree to which environment, genetics, and culture are contributing to the adult and childhood obesity epidemic. One primary intervention would be to study the degree to which influences such as junk food advertising, school lunches, and the proximity of fast food restaurants to schools affect students' BMI. By assessing the degree to which exposure to unhealthy food advertising, meals in schools, and availability of snacks outside of school affect a student's weight, this could provide guidance as to what strategies should be used to prevent childhood obesity. On a secondary level, treating children who are overweight or at risk for obesity with specific intervention programs that could be compared against the weight and health records of control groups would give further guidance as...

Finally, at a tertiary level, communities with high populations of obese and overweight children could become the target of specific intervention strategies, like prohibiting the introduction of new fast food restaurants into the area, interventions which then would be studied over time.
However, the idea of removing extremely obese children from the home seems like a dubious strategy to lower the child's weight. First of all, finding good foster homes better than the original environment for a child is difficult, even for children in more conventional abuse situations. Secondly, the child will eventually have to return to the home, and unless the behaviors of the parents are modified, it is likely that the child will simply fall back into the same bad habits he or she practiced previously.