Why an alarming one third of American children under the age of eleven are overweight The incidence of childhood obesity is rising strongly. There are about 30.3% of American children aged 6-11 years are overweight. While 15.3% are already obese. He is also obvious that a child with at least one parent overweight or obese is likely to become the same thing.
If you map the source of childhood obesity, it would be from the home and immediate environment. Children pick up habits and inherited traits of those around them. Some children grow up obese because of a genetic predisposition inherited from a parent or both. Some grow obese due to a cause quite different: the sedentary lifestyle. Adding to the destruction of the incidence of obesity is the reduction of physical activity.
Because children today have the technology as an entertainment and hopefully a source of learning, they become subject to less physical effort they intend to or not. At the time, the children play in the sun running up a tree. Now, they destroy the armies of zombies or perform the tasks assigned by a manager from the CIA or hack other computers.
Although parents did not intend their children to stay all day watching TV or playing a computer game until their eyes pop out, parents are sometimes not control can not be with their children 24 / 7. The prevalence of this lifestyle was a factor of production in which children grow up addicted to this hobby while trying to compete with their peers.
The incidence of childhood obesity is also formed by the most obvious reasons: the fast-food diet high in calories and rich in fat that the West is so fond of. Maybe if children were born in a craze for fruits and vegetables, obesity was not a growing threat to health worldwide. At this stage, the incidence of childhood obesity has increased so because of the change in lifestyle brought about by technology and food sources.
Note that the incidence of childhood obesity is worse in developed countries, where food is abundant and the technology is within reach of a child. However, the incidence of childhood obesity in developing countries is likely to follow suit if the prevention of similar events are not undertaken.
Among the causes of obesity, there are underlying factors contributing to poor genetic diseases, illnesses, medications, special diets because of certain diseases. These cases vary between subjects with obesity may or may not depend on the immediate environment, but only according to a medical problem.
Children are also subjected to unsanitary conditions and mental eating disorders. Both are packaged together there is no definitive answer as to whether the cause of the other.
Obesity is a serious problem, whatever your age, and whatever stage you are in your life. For this reason it is important that obesity is not ignored, but addressed as soon as possible so that people can enjoy their life to the full as possible with as little physical discomfort.
Posted on February 18, 2010.
