Childhood Obesity

Causes behind Childhood Obesity

A child feels as if human life is meant only for enjoying food. Generally children and parents take meals together. It is a well-known fact that wrong habits of eating and living are responsible for causing obesity in childhood. A child usually imitates parents’ habits and imbibes their wrong habits quickly.

Lack of adequate physical activity also plays a major role in causing obesity in childhood. Also lack of encouragement prevents the child from participating in the sports activities at school. This lack of adequate physical activity later on manifests its results through the accumulation of layers of fats in the body. As the obesity keeps on increasing the physical activity of the child goes on decreasing. In terms of physical growth obese children are ahead of normal children by several years. Excessive food intake affects the physical growth and obesity is its natural consequence.

It is not desirable to impose a big dietary cut in the treatment of obesity in childhood. A child should be given enough food so as to maintain his existent weight. As the child grows, he moves towards his ideal weight.