.1. Raising awareness.

• In the recent years, mass communication has developed substantially and has contributed to the increase in the number of children and adolescents affected by obesity. However, it is possible to use mass communication to educate people in general and specifically parents on the condition (Gupta, Goel, Shah and Misra, 2012).
• When the population is well informed about the ways to avoid childhood obesity and how to control the condition then there will be a definite improvement as many more people would take action. Social media can also be used to promote healthy behaviours and lifestyles which are a critical factor in abolishing childhood obesity.

4.2. Healthcare experts on childhood obesity.

• Since it is evident that the number of healthcare experts on childhood obesity is very little, increasing the number of experts will go a long way in abolishing childhood obesity (Stewart and Wild, 2015).
• This can be achieved by training more experts and encouraging the public to seek help from the healthcare providers about the condition.

4.3. Physical activity.

It has been proven that daily exercise helps reduce the amount of fat in the body in overweight children and adolescents, this is also true for prevention in healthy weighted youths and children (Bunce & Hunt, 1987). This can be achieved by encouraging activity in children and young people for example, an introduction of an active physical activity education program that will ensure that all school-going children have a chance to participate in some form of physical activity when in school. To encourage the youths and children to participate, the schools’ administrations and the instructors should make the activities interesting to attract the students.

Another way of promoting physical activity is by creating an environment that allows for various physical activities, for example, building gyms will attract more people to exercise while more sidewalks will encourage walking to places.

4.4. Healthy food environment.

Creating a healthy food environment is also a major factor in the eradication of childhood obesity. This will be achieved by making healthy food and beverages easier to access and at the same time restricting access to harmful foods that have high calories and little nutrient value. The methods for achieving this include; prohibiting a sale of sugar-sweetened drinks in childcare centres and preschools, as part of school meals and revision of school wellness policies. Lowering the cost of healthy foods and beverages at places where children and youth congregate.

4.5. Targeting schools.

Children and youth spend most of their time in schools therefore a foundation for lifelong good health can be laid in schools since they have an opportunity to improve youth health and tackle obesity at a young age before it becomes a problem (Ogden et al, 2014). An avenue that can be explored in schools is education. Students can be helped to maintain healthy lifestyles by incorporating nutrition and physical activity lessons into the curriculum (Borys et al, 2012). School physical education should also focus on engaging students in regular activity.  Students can also be surrounded by opportunities to eat healthy foods and stay active outside the classroom to promote a healthy lifestyle by including healthier food offerings in cafeterias and prohibiting the sale of unhealthy foods and developing safe walking and biking routes to and from school to promote activity.

4.7. Child care.

Child health care providers are in a position to teach parents about healthy lifestyles including healthy eating and activity habits. They can also instruct parents on how to provide a safe and healthy environment for children to grow, play and eat. Also, they can provide the children with healthy foods that are age appropriate and also provide a safe environment for the children to have sufficient physical activity

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