Introduction Obesity refers to a health state in which surplus body fat accumulates such that it may pose unfavorable consequences on wellbeing of an individual. It is determined using the body mass index, commonly referred to as BMI, and further analyzed by fat dispersion through the waist-hip quotient and overall blood vessel threat features. The body mass index is has a great correlation to the percentage body fat and whole body fat. In children, weight is classified as either healthy or unhealthy depending on age and sexual category. Obesity in children and teenagers is not classified as a fixed figure, but in association to a past standard set, so that obesity is a body mass index larger than the 95th percentile. The reference information on which these figures are founded is from 1963 to 1994, and as a result has not been impinged on by the latest rises in weight. “Body mass index is worked out by dividing the individual’s mass by the second power of his or her height” (Kraybill, 2010, p. 112). An individual who has more body fat than is optimally fit is said to be overweight. This is a widespread phenomenon, particularly where foodstuff provisions are abundant and the standards of living are lean on the inactive. The obesity problem is a phenomenon world over and it cuts across all age groups. A fit body needs a least quantity of fat for the appropriate performance of the hormonal, procreative, and resistance systems like caloric padding, shock absorption for sensitive area as eyes, and as energy for upcoming use (Kraybill, 2010, p. 109). But the amassing of too much storage fat can mess up motion and suppleness, and it can as well make a person look unattractive. Obesity in American children Obesity in the United States has been all the time more alluded to as a main health concern in the latest decades. At the same time as a lot of developed nations have seen comparable rises, obesity levels in the United States are among the highest world over. Statistics show that by the year 2007, an approximate 74.1 percent of grown persons were overweight or obese (Bascetta, 2009, p. 34). Americans have thus become concerned about the increasing number of obese children, who mostly grow with this problem into adulthood. Causes of childhood obesity A broad array of ecological, societal, physiological and behavioral aspects acts upon energy equilibrium in the body. This is the equilibrium between energy ingestion and energy utilization. The fundamental basis of obesity and the state of being overweight is affirmative energy equilibrium. This takes place when a person’s energy ingestion from foodstuff and drink(s) is over and above the energy they burn up as a result of corporeal action and other metabolic activities, over a long-drawn-out period of time. This can be attained through a rise in energy ingestion, a decline in energy use up, or a blend of the two. The dietetic energy provision for each person differs distinctly between various regions and nations. It has as well altered considerably with time. From the beginning of the 70s to the late 90s, the standard calories obtainable per individual per day have gone up gone up in all regions of the globe other than Eastern Europe (Kolata, 2007). “The US was rated as having the greatest accessibility with 3,654 calories for each individual in 1996. B