Smart Eating to Battle Childhood Obesity
There is finally a solution emerging to help families with their childhood obesity issues. America can finally start to battle its obesity levels and help its children become healthier human beings.
Childhood obesity is linked to issues such as high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and other social health factors such as self esteem and alienation. This latter consequence of childhood obesity -- ridicule and alienation -- has the dual effect of damaging a child both physically and emotionally far beyond childhood, and possibly for the rest of his or her natural life.
For years, medical experts have called for a multi-faceted strategy to handle this epidemic. It has been clear that any long-term answer should be fought on four fronts: physical activity, sedentary habits, socioeconomic standing, and eating habits [ii].
Yet there's room for one more pillar; or, at the very least, the identification of another element that must be part of any lasting solution. This fifth pillar, or undiscovered element, is sensible nutritional supplements.
Many overweight children have been told repeatedly by well-intentioned dieticians that eating smart is the key to overcoming this scarring condition. This is easier said than done; particularly when emotional eating or an unobserved food addiction [1] might fuel adverse eating habits.
Yet being told to "eat smart" is oftentimes not enough. Children have to be provided with foods that are nutritionally sound, and foods that they actually enjoy eating. Many people overlook the palatability of foods in helping children lose or keep off weight. This is explained below.
Most overweight children are neither unable to learn, nor willfully disobedient. Some of those children even have remarkable support from their well-adjusted families who dutifully remove the usual suspects of chips, soft drinks, chocolate bars, and other damaging foods from the home. Yet many of those same children continue to gain weight and march ever closer to the litany of health defects noted above.
These children are not doing this to themselves. Many overweight children even understand that their weight is unhealthy for them. Yet they continue to snack away in secret, or binge on foods when they get the chance, thereby undoing whatever minor gains might have been achieved in the previous few days or weeks.
Food selection is likely one of the foremost reasons for this to occur. No child is going to want to eat something that they dislike eating. This is especially true for children who have already experienced foods such as gravy, soft drinks, or donuts and find all other foods to be unpalatable. Indeed, the dietician may snack away on carrots and celery while talking to an overweight child about the importance of eating smart. Obese children usually feel that these are foreign foods and will not understand how to include them in their daily routines.
This fifth pillar, or new element, is therefore one that provides overweight children with nutritional supplements that they are going to eat. As stunningly obvious - even axiomatic - as this appears to be, it has been lost on many experts until recently.
Thankfully, as noted above, there's a solution emerging. It's one that meets this demand for tasty, wholesome foods. This solution meets the need for healthier and tastier foods. Companies now understand that their customers will eat highly nutritious and low calorie foods that include vitamins and minerals as long as they taste good. These foods often have colorful packaging which can be considered to be "teen-friendly." Companies such as MetRx, Experimental and Applied Sciences, Protica Research, and other similar corporations are producing merchandise which are nutritious and tasty. Granted, a nutritious diet doesn't begin or end with nutritional supplements. A healthy diet employs nutritional supplements to enrich and fortify real foods.
It's fine to be skeptical of this new solution since many different options have been attempted and failed. This new generation of nutritional supplements may help even the most skeptical of parents become considerably optimistic and even help their child recover from being obese.
REFERENCES
[i] Source: "The Problem of Overweight in Children and Adolescents". The US Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity/calltoaction/fact_adolescents.htm
[ii] Source: "Childhood Obesity". American Obesity Association. http://www.obesity.org/subs/childhood/causes.shtml
Childhood obesity is linked to issues such as high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and other social health factors such as self esteem and alienation. This latter consequence of childhood obesity -- ridicule and alienation -- has the dual effect of damaging a child both physically and emotionally far beyond childhood, and possibly for the rest of his or her natural life.
For years, medical experts have called for a multi-faceted strategy to handle this epidemic. It has been clear that any long-term answer should be fought on four fronts: physical activity, sedentary habits, socioeconomic standing, and eating habits [ii].
Yet there's room for one more pillar; or, at the very least, the identification of another element that must be part of any lasting solution. This fifth pillar, or undiscovered element, is sensible nutritional supplements.
Many overweight children have been told repeatedly by well-intentioned dieticians that eating smart is the key to overcoming this scarring condition. This is easier said than done; particularly when emotional eating or an unobserved food addiction [1] might fuel adverse eating habits.
Yet being told to "eat smart" is oftentimes not enough. Children have to be provided with foods that are nutritionally sound, and foods that they actually enjoy eating. Many people overlook the palatability of foods in helping children lose or keep off weight. This is explained below.
Most overweight children are neither unable to learn, nor willfully disobedient. Some of those children even have remarkable support from their well-adjusted families who dutifully remove the usual suspects of chips, soft drinks, chocolate bars, and other damaging foods from the home. Yet many of those same children continue to gain weight and march ever closer to the litany of health defects noted above.
These children are not doing this to themselves. Many overweight children even understand that their weight is unhealthy for them. Yet they continue to snack away in secret, or binge on foods when they get the chance, thereby undoing whatever minor gains might have been achieved in the previous few days or weeks.
Food selection is likely one of the foremost reasons for this to occur. No child is going to want to eat something that they dislike eating. This is especially true for children who have already experienced foods such as gravy, soft drinks, or donuts and find all other foods to be unpalatable. Indeed, the dietician may snack away on carrots and celery while talking to an overweight child about the importance of eating smart. Obese children usually feel that these are foreign foods and will not understand how to include them in their daily routines.
This fifth pillar, or new element, is therefore one that provides overweight children with nutritional supplements that they are going to eat. As stunningly obvious - even axiomatic - as this appears to be, it has been lost on many experts until recently.
Thankfully, as noted above, there's a solution emerging. It's one that meets this demand for tasty, wholesome foods. This solution meets the need for healthier and tastier foods. Companies now understand that their customers will eat highly nutritious and low calorie foods that include vitamins and minerals as long as they taste good. These foods often have colorful packaging which can be considered to be "teen-friendly." Companies such as MetRx, Experimental and Applied Sciences, Protica Research, and other similar corporations are producing merchandise which are nutritious and tasty. Granted, a nutritious diet doesn't begin or end with nutritional supplements. A healthy diet employs nutritional supplements to enrich and fortify real foods.
It's fine to be skeptical of this new solution since many different options have been attempted and failed. This new generation of nutritional supplements may help even the most skeptical of parents become considerably optimistic and even help their child recover from being obese.
REFERENCES
[i] Source: "The Problem of Overweight in Children and Adolescents". The US Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity/calltoaction/fact_adolescents.htm
[ii] Source: "Childhood Obesity". American Obesity Association. http://www.obesity.org/subs/childhood/causes.shtml
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