Childhood Obesity



Childhood Obesity

Introduction

In the last twenty years, the prevalence of obesity in children has risen sharply, especially in more developed countries. The increase is explained primarily by the poor food (worse in our country by the economic crisis) and a sedentary lifestyle, but also by the presence of conflicting relationships between parents and children in influencing certain cultural norms of the time. Obesity has become an epidemic in developed countries and prevention must be based on long-term planning that includes involvement in schools. School-based interventions to achieve an adequate impact on the child population by the arrival can be achieved for children and the family. Therefore, the objective of this work is to inform readers of the causes, consequences, ways of thinking and links related to childhood obesity, to start trying to change or at least make the attempt to avoid this painful disease for children, informing them and helping them to know this world where so many little ones suffer.

Obesity is a chronic, complex and multi-factorial, which usually begins in childhood and adolescence, and that stems from genetic and environmental interaction being more important to the environmental or behavioral, which is set by an imbalance between the intake and energy expenditure. It is characterized by excessive accumulation of body fat and is manifested by an excess of weight and volume corporal. However, it is very simplistic to think that obesity is only due to excessive consumption and inadequate physical activity. Demographic and cultural changes, as the increase of single parent families or reducing the number of siblings, have affected the behavior of children in many ways, including eating behavior and physical activity. The elucidation of the role and influence of demographic factors is essential to develop effective and sustainable prevention strategies.

Discussion

There are several methods to assess obesity in childhood and adolescence, but the most widely used both clinically and in epidemiology is the study of the relationship between age, sex, weight, height, and body mass index. Especially in the second decade of life, obesity in childhood is a powerful predictor of obesity in adults; obesity has important social, economic and health and, therefore, obesity in childhood is conceived today day as a major health problem in both developed and developing countries. In general, childhood obesity in developed countries is usually more common in lower socio-economic levels, with poorer nutritional status and education, that childhood obesity is still considered as an indicator of health status. In developing countries more affluent socio-economic levels are the ones who often have this misconception of childhood obesity.

Research Questions

This research took into account various outcome measures, grouped into four categories:

a) Does BMI serve the major cause of obesity?

b) How the diet affects an individual in being obsessed?

c) How obesity is caused by the lack of physical activity?

d) What are behavioral factors that are linked with obesity?

The body mass index (BMI) is the weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters (kg/m2) is a simple indication of the relationship between ...