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Childhood can be defined as condition whereby a child is significantly well above the normal weight for his or her age and height. This is as a result of either lack of physical activity, genetic factors, and unhealthy pattern of eating or mixture of these elements. It can only be in exceptional cases is being triggered by medical conditions such as hormonal disorder. Only blood tests and physical examination can rule out the likelihood of medical disorder as the reason for obesity.
The obese children are at risk for a number of disorders, including diabetes, early heart attack disease, high cholesterol, bone problem and high blood pressure. Childhood obesity can result in depression and low self-esteem.
Childhood obesity preventions involve maintaining energy balance at healthy mass while protective general health, development and growth, and nutritive status. The balance is among the energy a person ate as foodstuff and drinks and expended to support usual development and growth, thermogenesis, physical activity and metabolism.
The increased rate of obesity could be probably have been stopped during this time of too much food, especially fatty food, had not been available and consumed, and if the majority of individuals had been more, rather than less, physical active.
The following can considered as real possible solutions:
• Improvement in the percentage of children is meeting dietary guidelines as required by healthy experts.
• Improvement in the proportion of children meeting physical activity guidelines.
• Achieving physical, psychological, and cognitive growth and development goals.
• Reduction of mean population BMI levels
References
Koplan, J. (2005). Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance. National Academies Press
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