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Causes of Childhood Obesity
Obesity is defined as an excessive accumulation of body fat. Obesity is present when total body weight is more than 25 percent fat in boys and more than 32 percent fat in girls. There are various medicines like Phentermine, Adipex etc. which aid in the weight loss for adults but these medicines are definitely not meant for children.
Causes of Childhood Obesity:
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Family: A child whose both parents are obese has a higher chance of
developing obesity as compared to other children. This can happen for a
variety of reasons like genetic factors or may be the sedentary
lifestyle of the parents or the lack of exercise
in their daily routine. This can make the child born with obesity. - Inactive Life: Children these days spend more of their time on playing video games and watching T.V. This has prevented the children of today to engage in some healthy ground activities like sports. Hence children |
- Heredity: Since not all children leading a sedentary lifestyle, watching more of television, and eating just about anything does not make every child obese therefore researchers are working upon the reasons that why it is so.
| Heredity
has recently been shown to
influence fatness, regional fat distribution, and response to
overfeeding. In addition, infants born to overweight mothers have been
found to be less active and to gain more weight by age three months
when compared with infants of normal weight mothers, suggesting a
possible inborn drive to conserve energy. - Lower income and education levels correlate to lower physical exercise levels in developed countries. - Television advertising of food and |
Being overweight can cause:
1. Low self-esteem and bullying
2. Behavior and learning problems
3. Stress and anxiety
4. Comfort eating
5. Depression
6. Type 2 diabetes
7. High blood pressure
8. Asthma and other respiratory problems
9. Sleep disorder
10. Liver disease
11. Early puberty
12. Eating disorders
Prevention of Childhood Obesity:
Obesity is easier to prevent than to treat, and prevention focuses in large measure on parent education. In infancy, parent education should center on promotion of breastfeeding, recognition of signals of satiety, and delayed introduction of solid foods.
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early childhood,
education should include proper
nutrition, selection
of low-fat snacks, good exercise/activity habits, and
monitoring of television viewing. In cases where preventive measures cannot totally overcome the influence of hereditary factors,parent education should focus on building self-esteem and address psychological issuesChildhood obesity is an increasingly difficult problem. Action, if taken early, can change the outcome for obese children or even |
The more overweight the child, the greater the risk.
