lundi 24 juin 2013

What are the causes of obesity in children?

Has become fatness (obesity) of the most prominent problems of children in the present time, it has increased
warnings about obesity, which may be seen by many as something simple, but it is one of the serious diseases.



What is obesity?


Obesity is increasing the proportion of total body fat compared to other tissues, which cause increased body weight, thereby increasing body mass. The baby fat is has been an increase in the stored fatty layer under the skin, and increased the weight of more than 20% of normal weight children in the same age and height.


Causes of obesity in children


There are many factors that contribute to a child obesity, which are as follows:



- Genetic factors:
May be the primary reason for the emergence of obesity is genetic reasons, there are certain genes control the greasiness percentage of in a certain place of the body, the whole body may be. Show signs of obesity is clearly the beginning of puberty.



- Psychological factors:
Due to obesity is often the reason for myself in the vicinity of the child from the family or school, especially when they are free of any tests hormonal imbalance. There are some children with depression overindulge in eating sweets in aid for themselves out of frustration or depression.



- Social factors:


The social factors of the leading causes of obesity, and these factors can be summarized in:


A. Lack of movement and lack of exercise


B. A few hours of sleep


C. Wrong food habits, which is the excessive intake of sweets and sugars and fats, and reward the mother of the children by giving them candy


D. Spend long hours in the sitting position in front of the television or computer games or


E. Artificial feeding and give the baby food is milk in infancy


And. Lack of parental attention to the quality of the food they provide for children



- Satisfactorily factors:
The child may become one of the diseases that limit the movement for a long time; leading to the injury of child obesity, and examples of endocrine diseases and diseases of the brain, and frequent arthritis and fractures. In addition, there are some medications that have side effects appetite abnormally.

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