Childhood Obesity

Hazards of childhood obesity

• Learning to walk is delayed
• Obese children suffer from knock-knees and flat-feet
• Obese easily fall a victim to disease of respiratory system.
• Besides these, long-term dangers also include all those which apply to adults. Increased serum insulin levels and increased
• serum cholesterol levels and triglyceride levels are commonly found in obese.

Overweight children are more likely to become fat adults, and it can start as young as age two. This finding comes from a survey of more than 2,500 children over 18 years. The most overweight 2-5yr olds those whose BMI was greater than 95 % of children their own age were more than 4 times as likely to be too fat as adults, a study shows. A child with high BMI for his age is much more likely to become an obese adult.