Introduction
Health related behavior and habits such as physical activity patterns and eating habits develop at a young age and are often maintained into adulthood. Hence, negative eating behavior and the lack of adequate health maintenance activities from a young age increases the risk of one getting obese and developing conditions associated with poor health such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer just to mention a few (“Impact of Food Advertising”; Balbous et al. 146). Obesity has negative effects on children’s emotional, physical, social wellbeing and has a negative effect on the health care system. Most of the diet related health ...