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Public Policy to Prevent Childhood Obesity and the Role of Food Production and Marketing
Winzbergerová, Alžběta ; Háva, Petr (advisor) ; Tušková, Eva (referee)
This thesis is a case study focused on a relationship between public policy to prevent childhood obesity and the role of the food production and marketing in the Czech Republic. The emphasis is especially given to the institutional framework of food marketed and produced for children and its social concequences, because childhood obesity is one of them. The results from the analysis are then confronted with views and opinions of children and their parents, with how they feel about food advertising. Conclusion: advertising and production of food designated for children is not regulated in the Czech Republic. On governmental level only basic standards and rules are given and self-regulation is given precedence. Parents are aware of the huge influence of advertising on their children and that is why they are not satistied with the current situation. They would appreciate stronger legislative regulation of marketing and production of food for children.
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Self perception, body image and quality of life in overweight and obesity children aged ten to twelve
Antelmanová, Kateřina ; Hrachovinová, Tamara (advisor) ; Šírová, Eva (referee)
The thesis deal with self -perception, body image and quality of life of children suffering from overweight and obesity. The age of children ranges from 10 to 12. In theoretical part thesis deals with definition of the children obesity. The research is of quantitative character and uses several questionnaire methods. For self-perception has been chosen Self-perception profile for children inventory, for quality of life Pediatric quality of life inventory and for Body image Child Figure Scale. The dates were obtained in primary schools, health resorts and sanatorium all over the Czech Republic. In the research participated 211 children (117 girls and 94 boys). On the basis of percentile BMI the children were divided into clinical (N=50) and nonclinical (N=161). We statistically have analysed questionnaire results and we have done the comparison between clinical and nonclinical group. It has been ascertained that the children who suffer from overweight and obesity achieve in all the tests lower average scores than the children with the normal weight. Self-perception, body image and quality of life of children with overweight and obesity is lower than children with the normal weight. On the contrary, the assumption was not confirmed that the girls from a clinical group are more dissatisfied with their...
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Physiotherapy options for children with obesity
MARTINCOVÁ, Petra
This bachelor thesis focuses on the physiotherapy of obese children. It is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part includes information about obesity, its influence on health, its diagnosis as well as etiopathogenesis, and its prevention and treatment. This part deals with obesity within the epidemic context of the 21st century, as it is predominantly called in the world. Moreover, the theoretical part discusses the financial costs that are necessary for treatment, it also opens the topic of stigmatization and normalization of obesity or shows the relation of childhood obesity with Covid-19. The theory presents us with a way to approach physiotherapy. Furthermore, we will learn about the motivation of the children, the natural age relations, kinesiotherapy for obese children, and about possible physical activities suitable for obese children. Part of the practical part is research in which I was regularly exercising with a group of obese children aged 6-11 and giving them physical homework. Then, these results were qualitatively gathered and processed based on kinesiological analyses and both entry and concluding questionnaires. This thesis aimed to optimize the children's locomotor apparatus, improve children's relationship with movement, and inform both parents and children about childhood obesity and its impact on health in adulthood. This thesis describes the importance of motivating children to do physical activities, the possibilities of physiotherapeutic interventions, and lists of suitable exercises for an obese individual. For the educative part, this bachelor thesis includes a handbook for children and their parents about childhood obesity, its risks, and possible solutions as well as an exercise unit with the description of individual exercises. This thesis can be beneficial for anyone interested in the topic of childhood obesity as well as physiotherapists, for example, serving as an inspiration for working with obese children.
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Nutritional literacy of high school students
MÁTLOVÁ, Denisa
This bachelor thesis deals with the nutritional literacy of high school students. The main goal is to map students' nutritional awareness, what knowledge do students have about racional nutrition, whether they are interested in it and where they get informations from. The theoretical part describes the period of adolescence, including nutritional recommendation for adolescence, the problematic of eating disorders, children obesity, causes of obesity, prevention and treatment. The last chapter of the theoretical part describes other eating disorders. For the research part of my work, I chose the quantitative method, for data collection I chose questionnare and the collection of three-day meal plans. 84 students participated in the research, out of which 60 were women and 24 were men aged 16-20. Questions 1-5 divided respondents by age, gender, school and field of study, by height and weight. Questions 6-18 asked students about their nutritional awareness, questions 19-29 asked about students' lifestyle. In the second part I compare the three-day meal plans of 8 respondents, including the evaluation of one sample meal plan. The meal plans were calculated in the Nutriservis Professional program and evaluated after. The research shows that students' awareness of rational nutrition is at a good level, students are interested in nutrition and they stated internet as the main source of information. Furthermore, the research showed that boys have better nutritional knowledge than girls and high school students do not have better knowledge than vocational school students.
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Konzumerismus jako pedagogický problém - vybrané aspekty
JELÍNKOVÁ, Markéta
The thesis aims to outline the problematic of consumerism, development of the consumer society and the consumerism lifestyle connected with it. Furthermore, it tries to reflect the problems with keeping the optimal body weight due to massively spread consumerism lifestyle with special attention to the problematic of child and young people obesity which represents one of the current pedagogical problems. The practical part of the thesis focuses on the creation of methodical-didactic preparation, which can be utilized within the subject civic education at elementary schools. The theoretical part of the thesis was created on the basis of the following methods: professional heuristics, comparison and compilation from professional literature and other sources on the basis of which the author tries to analyze the given problematic. The practical part was created with regard to official methodical and didactical principles of teaching. The author will then asses the aspects of the consumerism representing the medical risks in the form of obesity as a pedagogical problem. It will be possible to use the practical part of the thesis as a supplementary material within the teaching about the problematic of consumerism in the civic education classes at elementary schools.
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Regime measures to affect overweight and obesity of elementary school children
Brožík, Marek ; Bunc, Václav (advisor) ; Strejcová, Barbora (referee)
Title: Regime measures to affect overweight and obesity of elementary school children Goals: The main goal of this work is a formation of excersise program for elementary school children who have the diagnosis of overweight and obesity. The goal of this work is also to chart available information about children obesity and its treatment by physical activity. The information is from native and foreign literature which is obtained from scholarly publications or articles accessed from the internet databases. Methods: We have analyzed scholarly publications and compared opinions of authorities who deal with treatment of overweight and obesity by physical activity. Results: We have found out that physical activity has essential influence on health and body weight of and individual. It is very important so that physical activity becomes part of everyday regim of children. The execise program for one week is made for children, their parents and teachers. It should be a guideline for correct reduction of children weight. Key words: obesity in children, physical activity, exercise program, elementary school children, weight.
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Lifestyle as a determinant of overweight and obesity
Wlochová, Markéta ; Háva, Petr (advisor) ; Tušková, Eva (referee)
Diploma thesis "Lifestyle as a determinant of overweight and obesity" focuses on risk factors determination which influences overweight and obesity in population in regards to failure of programmes dealing with this topic. Main goal of this thesis is to understand current lifestyle of chosen group of people because traditional understanding for reasons of overweight and obesity - higher energy income than outcome - seems to be insufficient. Further target is current Czech policy analysis, especially part of policy dealing with overweight and obesity prevention and its connection with European Union. In the first part of the thesis reader takes up with overweight and obesity as itself. This is followed by targets and research questions definition. Primary method is qualitative research. There is no generally accepted definition for this kind of research and therefore this method is briefly described here. Method used for policy analysis is content analysis. For this part i used domestic public policy documents as well as abroad ones. The next chapter is devoted to the theoretical recurrences and conceptualization of basic terms which are basement for this work. The chapter focused on development of obesity prevention policy briefly introduces into policy creation from its origins as a protection of...
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The effect of technologies on physical activity and eatning habits in adolescents
Charvátová, Pavla ; Kytnarová, Jitka (advisor) ; El-Lababidi, Nabil (referee)
Children's obesity is a global issue. Overweight is associated with many health complications and social inconveniences. The theoretical part is devoted to the general causes of obesity development, complications associated with obesity and treatment of obesity. Physical activity, children's and adolescent's eating habits are discussed in the following chapter. Short parts are devoted to describing the characteristics of adolescents period and modern technologies. The group consisted of 11 adolescents aged from 11 to 18 years. The adolescents were observed for two months. During this period, adolescents recorded physical activity, number of steps, number of hours spent with technologies (mobile phones, computers, tablets, laptops). Each of them also wrote down their eating habits. All eating habits diets were provided evaluated and compared with recommendations. Adolescents were measured twice on a bioimpedance device, their body compositions were determined and evaluated based on their measuring. Research proved that each respondent has shown a change in body composition (ratio between muscle and fat), which did not always show a decrease in total body weight. For adolescents, motivation was caused by borrowed pedometers. But not even thanks to this modern technology, adolescents were not able to...
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Monitoring of antropometric characteristics in 7-year children. Relation to family and school environment . WHO project: Monitoring of childhood obesity.
Guttenbergerová, Tereza ; Kunešová, Marie (advisor) ; Pařízková, Jana (referee)
The topic of this diploma thesis is based on European study: Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI). It is WHO Europe project. In the Czech Republic is this project lead by Institute of Endocrinology. The goal of this work is to determine childhood obesity prevalence and to monitor prevalence in relation to family and school environment. Obesity in children is an important health problem, accelerating throughout the world with particularly alarming trends in Europe. It causes a wide range of serious health and social consequences and increases the likelihood of morbidity in children and adults such as dyslipidaemia, hyperinsulimia, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, early atherosclerosis etc. Obesity is also strongly associated with orthopaedic problems and mental disorders, therefore, it is very important to monitor obesity prevalence in childhood. The goal of the work is to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity in 7-year children in the year 2010 (WHO classification and classification method of Czech republic). Another goal is to find a relation of the anthropometric data to environmental factors - identified by parents of children and representatives of schools (socioeconomic characteristics, eating habits, physical activities etc.). In this diploma thesis were measured 2594...
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Reason for development of childhood obesity not related with health condition
Horáková, Petra ; Hráský, Pavel (advisor) ; Dvořák, Martin (referee)
Title: Reasons for development of childhood obesity not related with health condition. Objectives: This thesis is focused on the subject matter of reasons for development of children's obesity not related with the health condition. I will work with children aged 11 to 15 years from the primary school ZŠ Velké Přílepy and the grammar school Gymnázium Nad Štolou in Prague. The target of this thesis include assessment of life style, movement activities and diet habits of children in an urban and a rural school. Namely such factors or conditions will be covered like lack of movement and sedentary life style, unsuitable diet habits and excessive eating, pressure of the environment, family conditions, social and economic life conditions, etc. Differences between the two mentioned schools will be examined and BMI of all children considered. Methods: The quantitative method - an inquiry - is used to achieve the results. A series of 14 closed questions focused on obtaining information from children of the two different schools. From the closed questions (age, body weight and body height) their BMI will be calculated. Together 160 children submitted the inquiry. The questions are focused on their diet regime and habits, questions related with movement activities and life style of the children. Results:...
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