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Paige, Great discussion. While reading your post, a few things stuck out in my mind. First, your mentioned people with type 2 diabetes can reduce sedentary time by breaking up sitting time with activity breaks. This method of incorporating movement can really be used by anyone and is a tactic I recently used in a project in a previous class to incorporate movement in the classroom. I am a school nurse, and I was focusing on a way to increase physical activity to decrease the risk of childhood obesity for my students. This initiative was seeking to increase physical activity in the classroom, without losing learning time. Working with the teachers, we found that natural transitions between subjects, morning time, centers, and transitions in and out of the classroom offered 30-45 minutes of time for extra movement, and the kinds loved it! Research shows that to increase the participation of children in schools and
to prevent obesity effectively, active time in physical education courses and to diversify the content of in-school activity.
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The intervention my school undertook, was just one way that this can be done. Another point you made that really stuck with me was the mention of incorporating the family. Since I work in a DODEA school, the students I serve are often without a complete family, having one or both parents away either due to deployment or training commitments. This can be difficult for the children who may be in the care of a family friend or family member who is older and uneducated in what is considered healthy. Another scenario is that they may have a parent in the home, while the other is deployed, but the parent who is home is struggling with the increased responsibilities with their spouse being gone. This may come with emotional, financial, and physical demands that result in a quick and easy meal that doesn’t translate to healthy or balanced. Add to that, the food insecurity of 26% of the DOD fighting force and the less healthy option becomes the only option for many.
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While lack of food seems like it could not cause obesity, one study suggests food insecurity leads to a low dietary quality, leading to ingesting energy dense foods.
3 Couple this with stress, unbalanced meals, and inactivity, and you get the perfect storm for obesity. 1. Yuksel HS, Şahin FN, Maksimovic N, Drid P, Bianco A. School-Based intervention programs for preventing obesity and promoting physical activity and fitness: A systematic review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
. 2020;17(1):347. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010347
2. Blue Star Families, D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families. 2022 Comprehensive Report Military Family Lifestyle Survey
.; 2022. Accessed November 25, 2023. https://bluestarfam.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/BSF_MFLS_Spring23_Full_Report_Digital.
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3. Carvajal-Aldaz D, Cucalon G, Ordonez C. Food insecurity as a risk factor for obesity: A review. Frontiers in Nutrition
. 2022;9. doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.1012734
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