Childhood obesity: Current Literature, Policy and Implications for Practice Childhood obesity has become a global health concern with children as young as six years old have been reported by various organizations including World Health Organization (WHO) to be obese. While the many world countries have numerous differences in terms of culture, they share one thing in common: the causes of obesity. To reverse this worrying trend, there is need for medical practitioners directly involved with child issues to take up active roles. Nurses and mid-wives can ensure that parents follow proper nutritional regime before and after birth. Apart from acting as role models for proper nutritional practices, they can also liaise with school staffs to ensure that children take balanced diets while at school. Moreover, they should be involved in the formulation of policies by the government that will help in curbing this vice while at the same time incorporating technology such as blogs and chat rooms to answer questions from parents concerning obesity (Ben-Sefer, Ben-Natan & Ehrenfeld, 2009). Get Fit with the Grizzlies: A Community-School-Home Initiative to Fight Childhood Obesity In their effort to curb obesity, stakeholders have come up with a raft of measures but have excluded a very important aspect of the American society; the children’s and even adults’ love for sports’ celebrities. The schools’ communities should include these celebrities from the schools’ vicinity in their fitness programs. This will motivate the children to take up healthy living behaviors as these celebrities will act as their role models. However, this initiative has been tapped by few thus the various stakeholders should encourage it as it has proved to be very effective in Memphis City schools (Irwin, 2010). When two sides go to war: Newspaper reporting of ‘television food advertising restrictions’ as a solution to childhood obesity While it is a widely acceptable view that the media has big role in promoting childhood obesity through advertisement of unhealthy foods especially during children programs, quite a good percentage of media outlets do not support the proposed restriction on television advertisement of food. However, quite a good too warmed up to the idea and even proposed new measures including formulation of healthy eating policies, creation of supportive environment for physical activity and healthy eating. Moreover, the media can also help in fast tracking of the progress of this debate thereby pointing out how important they are in curbing childhood obesity (Udell & Mehta, 2008). Public Health Professionals as Policy Entrepreneurs: Arkansas’s Childhood Obesity Policy Experience Childhood obesity is a national concern which requires proper legislations to curb. However, these policies may not be popular with many politicians who are the policy makers. It is therefore the duty of the public health professionals to present their policies in a clear and concise way that can be accepted by the politicians like in the case of Arkansas. These professionals should look for a window of opportunity in terms of political parties’ ideology changes among others and present these new policies and lobby for them to be passed. If practiced, such multiple streams framework approaches will help in curbing childhood obesity (Craig, 2010). Early Childho