Childhood Obesity

Camille G. Dizon​​​​​​​​September 8, 2015

SPEECOM​​​​​​​​ Lecture Speech Outline

Topic: Childhood Obesity

Purpose: The purpose of my speech is to give information to my audience that childhood obesity is a serious health problem that can lead to death and that it can be prevented.

1. Introduction

• Attention step:

I will begin my speech with a question. I will ask my audience on what they know about childhood obesity and why do people still consider giving sweets as rewards to kids despite the increasing growth of childhood obesity.

• Involvement step:

In this step, I will show some photos of me when I was still a kid and overweight.

• Indication step:

I want my audience to have a simple idea about the effects of obesity to children. I will show a short video clip regarding childhood obesity.

2. Body

• Major point #1: Causes of childhood obesity

➢ One of the major causes of childhood obesity is the lack of discipline from the parents in choosing the right kind of food and from advertisements of unhealthy foods.

➢ Another cause of childhood obesity is lack of physical activities.

• Major point #2: Effects of childhood obesity

➢ Children who are obese have a higher risk of high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

➢ Children who are obese are prone to bullying that can cause low self-esteem and emotional functioning.

3. End with a bang

Before ending my speech, I would give some tips and suggestions on how to prevent childhood obesity not only for my audiences’ future kids but also to those kids who are currently suffering from childhood obesity. Then I will finally end it with a quote from Bob Filner saying, “Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical activities, better diet and restraint from eating” and from Mike Johanns that says, “We are very concerned with the level of obesity. We don’t want this generation of young people to live fewer years than their parents”.

4. References