Option 2: Childhood Obesity DUE: 10-15-13This assignment involves two components. First, you will watch the HBO documentary The Weight of The Nation, Part3: Children in Crisis (http://theweightofthenation.hbo.com/films/main-films/Crisis) segment on childhood obesity. Second, you will conduct a brief interview with a healthcare professional with direct knowledge of childhood obesity. Appropriate healthcare professionals may include pediatricians, pediatric nurses, school nurses, or pediatric dietitians. Develop a set of interview questions to ask the healthcare professional for an interview that lasts approximately 15 minutes. The interview may be conducted over the phone. You should create your own set of questions that ask the interviewees to relate some of the concepts from the film to their own work with children, and to address any questions that may have been raised for you by the film that you think someone with applied, clinical experience may be able to answer. Paper Format: 1) Documentary - Summarize what you consider to be the main “take-home” points from the documentary.  - Describe information you found most surprising or disturbing.  - Relate the information in the documentary to at least 2 specific concepts from the course (e.g., physicalor motor development, theoretical approaches, genes x environment interactions). 2) Interview  - Provide the healthcare professional’s name, degree, position, and years of experience. - Summarize the respondent’s answers to your questions.  - Describe specific connections between the interview responses and material from the documentaryand the course. 3) Action - Describe advice regarding childhood obesity prevention and intervention that you would offer to the following groups based on specific information from the documentary and your interview:School administrators and teachers ParentsElementary school childrenPublic policy makersFrom Video: 18+% of children are obeseIf you go with the flow in America today- you will end up overweight or obese as 2/3 of American’s doChild obesity include greater risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma and other serious illnesses Experts fear that this is the first generation of American children who will have a shorter life expectancy than their parentsLink between TV watching and overweight and obesity among childrenCutting out TV and sugar sweetened drinks may help reduce a children’s weight or prevent future weight gainGrowing debate over the effects of food marketing on the childhood obesity epidemic Responsible parenting- tackling health challenges head on Doing hard work and finding supportive, healthy communities that will instill long- term habits that promote healthy living Changes in school lunchesSugar- sweetened beverages are associated with obesity and accounts for more added sugarProper dietPhysical activity to lead a healthy lifestyle Rise of video games and decline of physical education Schools can be the center point You can do after school programs about nutrition After school programs that promote exercising Many barriers to achieving these goals- parents sometimes don’t understand theseriousness of obesity-related health issuesObesity is an epidemic and perhaps American’s biggest health problem 1/3 of our children are overweight and 18% are obeseThe cheapest food is also the least healthyAdvertising from an industry that wants them to eat more besieges kidsFood marketing to children is powerful, pernicious and predatory Four sodas a day is equivalent of an entire extra meal in terms of