Case: Child Obesity

After discussing creating a tool to promote healthy eating/living in children during the last meeting, I decided that it might be a good idea to find out some more information about it.

According to BBC Health (link below) currently 20% of children are overweight and 2.5% are severely overweight or obese.

The National Obesity Forum has a section of their website devoted to obesity in children (link below) and details a community-based programme called MEND (Mind, Excercise, Nutrition - Do it!). The page has a lot of useful information about obesity in children, such as the effects and ways to tackle it. The interesting point on this website is that they believe "A reward system (non-food based) may help to motivate children to achieve their goals and will act as a marker of accomplishment." The tool we produce could be this reward system, or maybe a combination between educational and motivational with rewards for achievement.

Link to the BBC's Health - Child Obesity website can be found here

Link to tge National Obesity Forum - MEND can be found here