As much as obesity has long been recognized as critical problem across the US, Europe and the world over, the case of obesity for children is even grimmer. Modern society is also plagued by the ills of poverty and the lack of appropriate education for the individuals and the societies as a whole on the dynamics of health and diet. Modern society has been plagued by various negative health conditions which enlist the likes of obesity, cancer and Coronary Heart Diseases, just to mention a few. The proliferation of various epidemics has spurred the search for meaningful and long-term solutions which has led to the importance of nutritional education for individuals and societies as a whole. Authorities have taken various significant thrusts at exploring the dynamics that characterize the importance and essence of nutritional education especially for children in modern society.

The thrust on nutritional education for the youths and adolescents has been to tap the opportunities that are presented to health practitioners as they face the capacity of the youth and the teenager to engage more into abstract thinking accompanied by the evolving psychological settings. Jamie Stang and Mary Story (2005) notes that adolescence presents an opportune time to drill the youths to examine their eating lifestyles as well determine goals for dietary transformation. Modern day nutrition education for the adolescents must take advantage of the social as well cognitive swings that characterizes adolescent development. The shifts can be the basis for the promotion and embracement for healthier lifestyles of the youths and teenagers.

In the USA alone diseases related to inactivity and poor diet and eating habits cost the health care system about $830 million on a yearly basis (Jamie Stang and Mary Story 2005). Some of the diseases that top the list are the cancers, heart diseases and diabetes mellitus among a host of others. Recent researches on the dynamics of nutrition and health have indicated that obesity has escalated to phenomenal epidemic proportions across the globe. Hellmich, N (1992) presents research outcomes of the Australian community as a tip of an iceberg on what characterizes global communities in the dimensions of health and nutrition. The results of the studies cited by the scholar show that for the Australian adults the incidence of obesity as well as that of overweight is rapidly rising.

Researches estimate that 20%-25% of the county’s children are either overweight or indeed obese. Researches also indicate that in the 1985-1997period the proportions of school children who are classifiable as obese had risen 3 times whilst the numbers of those categorized as overweight had doubled. The figures have driven authorities to the realization of; and response to the fact that the societal ills that pertain to the link between diet and health must entail the prioritization of children nutrition education.

There have been calls from various quarters that the problems of health must be approached holistically with the sole object of extirpating the root causes and not just the symptomatic indications of the mother problem. Various researches conducted have indicated that eating habits are carved in the early stages of human development and have a way of carrying through across childhood through adolescence up to adulthood. What has been established is that the kind of food stuffs that constitute children’s diet will influence the state of their health in the years to come.