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Preventing Children Obesity
It is probable that about 65 % of the population In USA today is overweight and about 30% is at least clinically obese. 
Even more alarming is the estimate that 15% to 20% of the nation’s children are overweight and almost one third are at least clinically obese.
Now in particular, great thing must be done to reverse this trend and to avoid an epidemic to become even bigger than it already is. To relax and allow our children to be obese and overweight with time, we are actually short their lives seriously.
The main ingredient to help eliminate childhood obesity is the recognition. As parents, we can not take the position that is healthy for our children to be round and plump. Yes, they need to eat enough to stay healthy and grow well, but we need to know between healthy weight and what is overweight.
Often, parents guide their children’s food with the idea that they need more food, because they are growing. The fact is, however, the energy necessary for growth accounts for only about 2% of daily energy expenditure. (more…)
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Children Obesity Now Days
Perhaps not surprisingly that obesity is now at epidemic levels in the USA, it is now commonly seen in adolescents. Apparently, however, that this epidemic has spread beyond the adolescent and adult population, and we’re beginning to see obesity at an early age that many people find it hard to believe.
Although it is difficult to believe, a recent study that looked a little ‘less than two thousand children reported an alarming number of children with overweight and obesity in three years.
The study examined a group of children born to low-income families between 1998 and 2000 in two dozen U.S. cities. Both the height and weight of children registered at the age of three years, the researchers establish that approximately one third of kids in black and white were obese or overweight with this figure rises to forty-four per cent in the case of Latino children.
While all the areas that these figures are cause for great concern, the high incidence of obesity among Hispanic children is of particular interest and is so far unexplained. However, researchers have discovered that there was a trend for Latino children with overweight mothers being overweight and, furthermore, that the practice was more common for mothers of Latino children to give them a bottle at bedtime. (more…)