Causes, consequences and prevention of childhood obesityThe increase rates of childhood obesity are a course for concern among policy makers and health care practitioners because of the health risks involved. According to the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (2012), childhood obesity in America has tripled among adolescents and doubled in children in the last thirty years, to the extent that by 2010 a third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese. The risk off cardiovascular diseases and morbidity increases with more cases of childhood obesity. Childhood obesity is not only a health concern for today`s generation, but also for future generations who may be adversely affected by the epidemic. The immediate and long term effects of childhood obesity are many and hence there is a need to prevent the epidemic of obesity.Ding, E, L & Hu, F, B. (2008). Childhood Obesity via Mendelian Randomization Analysis, PLoS medicineThis article reviews the applicability of the Developmental Over nutrition Hypothesis, which presupposes that pregnant obese mother expose their children to obesity having a long term effect on the children`s appetite , energy metabolism and appetite control. They subsequently say that a previous study published in PLoS Medicine showed that the hypothesis is plausible and is more associated with mothers while the father offspring association was weaker. Mendelian Randomization (MR) supposes that there are specific genes that determine childhood obesity in line with the propositions of the Developmental Overnutrition Hypothesis. Even though, the two authors did not find the MR analysis to be true, it is vital to delve into the nature of the study. A 95 % confidence interval provided a wide range of the results which makes the estimation process to be less unreliable. Additionally, investigation of a specific gene is not a straight forward matter as one needs to identify specific characteristics. Lean, M, E.J. (2010). Childhood obesity: time to shrink a parent. International Journal of Obesity, 34: 1–3doi:10.1038/ijo.2009.200In this article Lean argues that parents are the main determining factor in child obesity, the article further proposes that our own actions determine obesity especially with the growth of consumerism in the global economy. The author points out that the costs of obesity are manifested among the adults, but strategies to reduce child obesity are common while those of adults are fewer. This notion emanates from the assumption that reducing case of child obesity has a long term effect of altering behavior eventually minimizing adult obesity. However, there is no indication that reducing childhood behavior reduces ensuing adult obesity. Generally, the presence of fat parents is associated with fat children of the same sex as the parent. Lean further goes on to say that reducing adult obesity is vital, this is because childhood obesity emanates from pa adult obesity and hence interventions shou...