Random Posts
- Overweight and Dying - Mummy Stay With Me a Little Longer
- Best Diet Food is Apple?
- How to Stay Away From Obesity With the Right Eating Habits
- Some Tips for Healthy Weight Loss
- Why is a Personal Trainer Irreplaceable, If You Are on a Diet?
- Weight Loss Surgery-For A Healthy You Posted By : Alan Chai
- Mental Preparation for Smart Lipo
- Urban Cardio Training-are you up to the challenge? Posted By : Emile
- Fat Loss: World Class Experts Join Hands
- Dr.
Prescription Obesity Drugs
Shocking Childhood Obesity Facts Part 2
Posted by admin in Prescription Obesity Drugs, Weight Loss on April 29th, 2009
Even our infrastructure in urban and suburban areas is so designed that it discourages walking or other physical activities among children. Moreover several families now consist of both working parents who hardly have any time to prepare healthy food for their children and hence there is an increased dependence on packaged foods, several of which lack essential nutrients for healthy childhood growth while supplying excessive calories which leads to them being obese.
This problem of dependence on convenience foods, which are high in fats and calories, is further compounded by the fact that today’s children prefer to spend their leisure time in front of the television aka “Idiot box” or playing video or computer games rather than doing some outdoor activity.
In addition to all this, genetics is also responsible for obesity among children to some extent. A child with obese parents has twice the risk of being obese as compared to the one having healthy parents. Although, genetic reasons are not directly responsible for the recent prevalence of obesity, it’s surely responsible for excess weight. The prevalence of obesity has also doubled (approximately) in the last two decades.
From the above childhood obesity facts it is quite clear that one of the ugliest corollary of this epidemic is the higher chance of acquiring diabetes in later life. In this context, type 2 diabetes is fast becoming a disease of children and adolescents when the number of children acquiring this disease jumping drastically in the 90s. It is estimated that pediatric cases of diabetes accounted for less than four percent before 90s but this number increased to an enormous 45 percent by the year 2000.
- The Best and Worst Foods to Eat After Bariatric Surgery
- If you haven't been losing weight, why don't you try junk food?
- Best Ways in Losing Weight
- Obese Or Overweight?
- Are Parents to Blame For Childhood Obesity?
- Does Omega 3 Help With Weight Loss? - Be The First To Read What The Experts Are Saying
- Nutrition Made Easy, Weight Loss Made Easy, Lose Weight The 100 Calorie Way Posted By : The 100 Calorie Girls
- 3 Ways Childhood Obesity Can Be Managed and Treated
- Video Gaming - Childhood Obesity
- Obese Statistics Ignored
No Comments »
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL
Leave a comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.