Childhood obesity is getting to epidemic proportions. Its no longer something that can be talked about as a might happen it is a definite and it is causing and will cause some horrendous health problems. It is confirmed that childhood obesity causes:

1) Elevated counts of cholesterol which is directly related to an increased potential for a stroke and/or heart attack.

2) Liver disease due to an insulin resistance.

3) An increase in diabetes cases - especially pre diabetes which is a condition that effects over weight youngsters especially.

4) A reduction in life expectancy - kids are going to die younger than they should.

5) Emotional and mental trauma that then can take a significant toll on self-esteem and self-worth.

Now these five problems help to reinforce one horrible fact, confirmed by The Centre of Disease Control, that our youngest generation is the first in many decades that is facing a life expectancy shorter than ours.

Over the past 15 years we have seen the obesity rate in young children double and it has almost tripled in teenagers. We are most certainly facing a crisis. Parents don’t know what to feed their kids anymore, How can they! There is so much misinformation and over-hyped gimmicks on the market that confusion and indecision have become completely normal. The real truth about some of the obese children is that they come from overweight families. What is meant by this is not attacking the easy target, it is just that if mum and dad eat junk food then it is almost definite that the kids will as well and they then assume that it is normal to do so.

Most experts feel that to cure the problem then you have to change the child but that is totally short sighted as you must target the whole family and change their total way of living. From what they eat, drink, do for leisure activities, to sleeping habits, exercise regimes and what they buy in the weekly shop. It is not a short term cure but a cure that will last through generation after generation.

Society has generated two main problems with the adult population. One being the busy life we all lead which means we do not have the time (correction - find the time) to plan for a nutritional well balanced meals. The second being that there is a generation of young parents that have been brought up on junk food, high calories and processed snacks and very few fruit and veg that knows no better.

This is a very large and difficult time bomb to defuse but it must not be allowed to go bang!!!! As it will be catastrophic for the future of the planet we call home!

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