Obesity In Children And Its Harmful Effects

Obesity is a common disease not only in adults but also in children. What a pity! This disease is getting more and more common. What are its bad effects and how to recover it? The following helpful advices may help you.

Obesity in children will cause some other dangerous diseases like cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. Obesity not only creates bad effects to children's health but also other fields of life like study, communication, social activities, work, etc.

Children who get obesity usually are teased by other children so they are not self-confident enough to communicate and get along with other ones. These poor children usually feel a complex about their appearance and cannot gain success in their life. Therefore, helping children to prevent and recover from obesity is a very necessary action of parents to create a bright future for their children.

What are causes?

The first cause of obesity is heredity. The risk of getting obesity in children with parents getting obesity will increase from four to eight times.

Obesity usually appears in children who do not have a suitable diet. Nowadays, people usually do not bear many children. The small number of children and improvements in living standards allow people to care much about their children. The bad habit of forcing children to eat too much makes obesity become more and more common. Parents should cook balanced meals for their children with suitable amount of nutrient substances like lipid, protein, calcium, etc. Adding more vegetables into meal is also very important.

Obesity usually appears in children who do not exercise regularly. They spend hours and hours in front the television to watch cartoons and favorite films or play games with their personal computer.

How to recover this hateful disease?

Obesity is a very common disease but it is not really difficult to recover from this disease as long as you have determination and awareness of it dangerous effects. It requires attempts of not only the child but also his parents and other members in his family.

In order to help children succeed in recovering from this disease, parents should be a good example to their children. For example, if you want your child not to eat one kind of food because it will make him fatter, you should not eat that food in front of him or it will make him have desire for that food and cannot control himself.

In order to get over obesity, a good diet must be combined with a regular exercise. Parents should do exercise with their children so that he is inspired to do it regularly.

Each family should have a scale so that every member can check their weight regularly and has suitable modifications.

Children usually like sweet foods with much sugar such as cakes, candies, etc. This is also a reason causing obesity because sugar can be converted into lipid in their body. One of methods to prevent obesity in children is limiting amount of foods with sugar that children eat. Further more, the bad habit of eating candies before going to bed also causes some other dangerous diseases like tooth decay.

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