11/29/2007

Infantile obesity

How it affects the children
Today in day, the figures of obese adults in the population are enormous, and that enormous they are also it those of the infantile population: more than 25% of the children of the world they already have problems of overweight, only in the European Union it is been above 30%. The great paradox is that in the population's places where we find
undernourished or anemic children, also the figures as for infantile overweight shoot.
The infantile obesity has special transcendency because many obese children will continue being it when becoming adults, unless they adopt and some healthier patterns maintain regarding feeding habits and of physical exercise.
The good thing is that acting on time, in these ages is easier to revert those habits and behaviors that took to that situation.
When the obesity persists after the twenty years and it was not corrected on time, it is very probable that is suffered of obesity in the mature age. The adolescents with overweight have 70% of probability of ending up permanently being obese.
This is increased in 80% if one of the parents is already obese or he/she simply has overweight.
Besides all this, the obesity in the stage of the childhood, produces psychological and social consequences.
The obese children, frequently, have complex of inferiority, rejection and a low self-esteem that maintain during all their life.
This discrimination, caused by prejudices, attributes to the obese ones a null autocontrol capacity on its impulses. This rejection that you/they suffer unchains antisocial attitudes, depression, isolation and inactivity that it takes them to eat more, being perpetuated the problem.
To all this we add him that the urban environment every time it contributes less to that the boys are in activity:
they usually pass in the computer instead of making sports, they no longer walk toward the school, the television and the videogames they play a fundamental list of their sedentary life, among others.
The consumption of goodies, sweet cookies, sugary drinks, snacks, cakes, and others along day, as well as the quick foods and the one doesn't use of the “to share the table in family”, they are also causes that this problem grows day by day.

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