There has been concern for many decades about the growing prevalence and potential impact of being overweight. Although health professionals have voiced concerns and developed programs for children to manage their weight since at least the 1980s, childhood obesity is more prevalent today than at the end of the 20th century. Discuss the multiple sociocultural systems that contribute to weight increases in North America at younger ages, and why you believe that available intervention programs may not have had a noticeable effect on the overall population trends.
