Childhood obesity is a very important subject and is full of details. Perhaps the first step is to review together what modern medicine says about obesity in children, and then we talk about the role of parents on the personal level and in the small and large family.
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Obesity is a global problem. The percentage of overweight among children, including those who suffer from excessive obesity, is about 30%. Therefore, the issue is important and dangerous because it affects the child's health organically, psychologically and socially.
Some Causes of Obesity in Children
- Less than 10% are obese due to hormonal or genetic disease, and obesity is symptomatic in a range of other symptoms that are part of the original disease, the most important examples are thyroid and adrenal glands.
- The rest, about 90% of patients are obese due to genetic, environmental, behavioral or social readiness.
- Children who enjoy breastfeeding as a single source of food for at least 6 months are less likely to suffer from obesity in their childhood and then their youth.
- It is worth mentioning that many children are victims of the food habits they were exposed to - babies or children - or the habits and family atmosphere that did not care about sport or raise a healthy food culture, or were exposed to community propaganda campaigns interested in marketing food even if it is unhealthy, Great.
- Children with obesity in their childhood often suffer from obesity for life.
What is the Negative Impact of Obesity on Child Health?
- High incidence of diabetes "type II", as well as heart disease and atherosclerosis and diseases of bone and liver in the future, and some studies linked obesity with other diseases such as psoriasis.
Unfortunately, some types of cancers occur more frequently in children with obesity.
- The psychological and social impact on the child is severe and painful; where often colleagues, but many of those who deal with him in the street or in the school to put "marks" on him, Vnadnh names and recipes with ridicule and discomfort, but they may consider it a material of humor and permanent dandruff, which may hurt him Desire to isolate and avoid people.
What are the preventive and then therapeutic alternatives to obesity in children?
This part I call every religion to read it several times.
First, obesity is a chronic disease as a whole of chronic diseases; it remains with your child for the rest of his or her life, so you and your family need to realize this and work for life. This often requires contact with a family doctor or a specialist obesity doctor.
Secondly, the most important and permanent role in the treatment of obesity is to create a knowledge environment about the facts of obesity and healthy food, and the importance of knowing calories, and make sports a lifelong and loving lifestyle, and set the example of the child behavior of all members of the family, especially father and mother.
Third: Behavioral and psychological support is very important and important elements
- Spreading the atmosphere of stimulation and encouragement about the fat child.
- Communicating the scientific conviction that he is often not fully responsible for his obesity.
- but he can with some effort to control them as he has to love his body and his appearance and does not care much about the words of people, and may need behavioral and cognitive sessions.
Fourthly, one of the most important elements of the so-called "lifestyle change" is to convince your child to develop a daily program that includes sports + a few sugars + many fruits and vegetables. This can be done as a daily written diet plan and is followed regularly with your doctor.
All of the above is the role of the parents primarily as sponsors of the child and the family.
Other Alternatives in Cases of Obesity
Some other alternatives are recommended in cases of obesity, and the role of the family involved with the doctor specialized in the selection:
1. Use some medications that help to reduce or stabilize the weight.
2. The use of balloon designed for those who suffer from obesity and excess to be done through the system includes the application of all means of changing the lifestyle mentioned above.
3. The last solution is to resort to one of the surgery of obesity such as belt or masking or conversion of the path; we should not resort to them except in the cases of obesity, and after the preparation is appropriate psychologically and organically.
It is important to note some important details and conditions, including:
- The child should not be less than 15 years old.
- Ensure that the medical team from the family and the child's compliance with instructions, which are most important commitment to vitamins and salts for life.
The obesity of your child is a shared responsibility, the bulk of which is the community and the family, especially the father and mother, and the biggest price is paid by the children themselves. Is it our responsibility to relieve our children of what they will suffer in their present and future?
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