Overweight Children What Can A Parent Do To Help? Part 1 Of 5
The latest figures released in the US state that 15 percent of children and teenagers are now considered overweight, up from 6% 20 years ago. Statistics in the UK are similar, and rising. Whilst children starve in Africa, kids in the Western world are lining up to suffer a frightening array of weight-related illnesses, including skin and joint problems, early osteoporosis, type II diabetes, bowel cancer, high blood pressure, heart attack and strokes. Recent research also suggests that obese kids are 77% more likely to suffer from asthma.
And of course in a world where TV, movies, teenage sitcoms and advertising all promote the ideal image and the fat kid is often mocked and made the butt of all the jokes, many overweight children will increasingly suffer from lack of confidence and poor self-esteem, leading to isolation and possibly depression in their teenage years.
Why do the numbers of overweight children keep going up?
* Portion sizes at school, restaurants and home keep growing
* Children have far more choice in what they eat (previous generations ate what they were...
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