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Posts Tagged ‘Childs Obesity’

Child obesity, ie, overweight in children is a growing reality for 15 years: more and more children and adolescents are over weight, both in size and age. For example, a 10 year old boy weighs 7 kilos.

In addition to genetic and environmental factors, childhood obesity is the cause in the lack of healthy food education by the adults around children. Parents, brothers, uncles, grandparents and teachers we forget that part of education is to teach the child to eat a variety of food and encourage them to try new flavors.

In the fast pace of our lives we forget that the main cause of child obesity is poor nutrition education, letting the child choose his own pleasure, which always tastes lean toward sweet or too salty.

It is key to help the child to eat everything, leaving no free choice feeding to avoid future health problems. A balanced diet is important, but should not be imposed, but agreed with the child. It is also important to perform daily physical activity, which helps maintain healthy body and heart.

Treatment and Counseling
The methods to reduce the degree of obesity in terms of behavior modification should first analyze the behavior focused on actions related to food (type and frequency of food consumed) and the background and consumption behavior food).

We must lead the way with a family basis. The family needs to get a set of skills for behavior change is appropriate. Parents should be aware of the poor eating habits and activity of your child (or family in general), and the behavior of their parents to the problem.

Behavior should be amended in a slow and gradual, but permanent, making small changes only when they have managed to establish previous changes.

Emotional support is very necessary during adolescence, a period in which worsen the emotional problems of children with obesity and family, so it is advisable to work in groups to support family impact.