I concur with Tahani, Rahmah, and Maryam notions that educating children to consume healthy diets at an early age has a positive implication on the growth and development of children because it reduces the risk of children becoming overweight or obese. Computer based interventions have been hypothesized to offer an adequate means of addressing childhood obesity. Based on a personal opinion, computers are not the best choice for the developmental skills of these children. Despite this, researches carried out in the recent past have proved that computer based interventions provide an excellent way of carrying out nutrition education on children. This is due to the fact that videos, graphics and narrations can be merged with computer programs, which enables children to learn more on nutrition while they are using computers (Olstad & McCargar, 2009).
Parents can play a role in reducing childhood obesity by ensuring that they always consume healthy diets, which sets an outstanding example to the children who will then adopt such habits. From this reflection, I have learned a lot regarding parenting, and issues aligned with childhood obesity. More importantly, I have learned that childhood obesity is usually caused by inadequate dietary feeding practices of children at an early age. For this purpose, childhood obesity can only be prevented if parents take the sole responsibility of assuring that they ensure that their children consume adequate diets that do not contain any fats, which is the primary factor leading to obesity in children (Olstad & McCargar, 2009). What I have learned affects me in that it will change the manner in which I raise my children.
Reference
Olstad, D.L. & McCargar, L. (2009). Prevention of overweight and obesity in children under the age of 6 years. Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, 34, 551-570.
