Childhood Obesity
Almost everyone has come across a child who is very fat as we can call it. This is believed to occur mostly in children who feed on jug food stuff, not doing body exercises or spend most of time sleeping/ watching and maybe due to an inherited condition in the family. And in very rare situations this abnormal child body size can be as a result of medical conditions, for example, imbalance of hormone’s in the body. This unproportioned body weight to his or her age and height do not match referred to medical specialists as childhood obesity.
Any child is suffering this condition of body weight not being in proportion his or her age and height is vulnerable to contracting many diseases. These conditions include diabetes, bone complication, the early heart attack sickness and high cholesterol. Most of these teenagers tend to develop low self-esteem because they become the center of attractions and are unable to enjoy like other normal children. As a result of this the obese victims are likely to develop a healthy disorder known as depression.
This abnormal body weight can be can be prevented in several ways such as healthy eating of energy food as recommended by health professionals, bearing in mind to check on nutritive status. Overall fitness, development and growth. Ensure will maintain healthy eating the body should also be engaged in physical activities for proper metabolism processes to take place as needed.
The rapid increase in obesity cases could only have been tamed at the time of excessive eating, more so feeding on fatty foodstuffs was avoided at initial stages, engaging in proper body exercises to avoid idleness and excessive sleeping. Meeting the requirements of physical, physiological and cognitive growth and development goals can be termed as a possible solution to this disorder.