Introduction Child obesity is one of the national and ideally international major public health crises. In the last few years there have been increases in the number of children that are obese to staggering figures(Karnik & Kanekar, 2012). Technically, it means that the child that is said to be obese has some form of imbalance in their levels of calories intake and that of the calories utilized in the body(Bishop, Middendorf, Babin & Tilson, 2005). This implies that the child is taking in more calories than they are utilizing within their body. These children are bound to build a lot of fat deposits in their body, thereby building more weight than the average child. Obesity overview In the USA there are on average one child for every five that is suffering from obesity and this number is set to rise given the lifestyle most of the population has adopted in the last several decades(Cdc.gov, 2014).