Collected Item: “How does the pandemic affect children?”
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How does the pandemic affect children?
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text
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
This article speaks about obesity in children during the pandemic. With lots of parents work being closed as well as schools, parents struggle to provide healthy options to children and are stuck with buying cheaper option that is mostly filled with preservatives and high calories that is causing obesity rates to increase. Effects of diet during youth effects eating habits that a child developss as it grows. As weight plays a role mentally and physically in a person's health, the pandemic affects children in such away.
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HST494, children, pandemic, health
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https://stateofchildhoodobesity.org/stories/impact-of-the-pandemic-on-childhood-obesity/
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A PROJECT OF THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION
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2021-04-08