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Articles about obese children (0-50 of 822)
- Personal Training Helps Overweight Children Get Healthy
By: Stephen Daniels | - Obesity is a serious issue facing children today. Inactivity due to television and video games is only a small part of the problem. Too many have developed poor eating habits and do not understand the importance of exercise and physical fitness. Personal training can be an effective way to make sure your child has the tools they need to become healthy and stay that way.
Gym classes and recess at school are geared toward teaching kids how to stay physically fit. Unfortunately, th ...
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- Obesity In Children Rates
By: kirstenplotkin | - Our children are becoming fat, obesity in children rates are not in the small numbers you might think, it is a serious growing health problem which we have a responsibility to fix. This is not about a simple weight problem which can be solved by sending the kids out to play. Child obesity has reached numbers that nobody would have foreseen even a decade ago. Sadly, it is our own fault, the adults the parents the teachers anyone who has an influence over what children eat.
Already ...
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- Obesity Epidemic In Children
By: Dr. Jacqueline E. Campbell | -
Miss P. recently took her 8 year old son to see me " Doctor, this child is just getting too fat. All he does is eat junk food and drink soda "
"So where does he get that sort of food from?" I enquired.
"At home," she replied.
"So who buys the food?" I asked.
"I do," replied Miss P. "So doctor what can you going to do about his weight?" This scenario plays out frequently in my office.
I do not have any statistics on our popul ...
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- Why Are Our Children Overweight?
By: Brenda Simard | - Being an overweight child has many negative connotations. Children can be very cruel without totally understanding that they are hurting someone's feelings. An obese child lacks self-esteem and social acceptance. But why has the number of overweight children doubled in the last twenty years?
One thing to remember is that not all issues with weight are due to being lazy or not eating properly. There are genetic disorders and diseases that, unfortunately, will cause children to be ove ...
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- Childhood Obesity
By: Cindy Paiva | - Obesity, or over-nutrition, is the generalized accumulation of fat both beneath the skin and throughout the body. Some children are big, or stocky, because they have large skeletal frames. They are not obese. There are general guidelines for appropriate weight for a given height, but these are only general guidelines.
For a girl who is 1.09 meters tall (43 inches), the average weight is 18kg (40lbs). Anywhere between 15-22kg (33-46lbs) would be considered healthy. Your daughter's 33 ...
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- The Main Causes Of Obesity: Is The School Environment The Blame For Childhood Obesity
By: Daniel Beasley | - Obesity is on the rise for people of all ages, sex and race in the United States. Moreover, the number of obese children has increase in recent years and the number continue to rise. Many parents are alarmed by the serious matter of child hood obesity and look for methods and solutions to this problem. Furthermore, the school system has changed a lot in recent years and can be one of the main causes of child obesity.
Many schools are cutting out more physical activities to save o ...
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- Reviewing Obesity Statistics
By: petersonbran | - The most recent research statistics on growing obesity disclose a dangerously overweight world population. During the last 10 years, there was a dramatic increase in obesity in the world, especially in the United States, England, and Canada. Over the years, the occurrence of obesity has also steadily increased among all genders, ages, all education levels, and ethnic groups.
Obesity is a severe health condition where a person accumulates an abnormally high proportion of body fat. Th ...
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- Obesity Epidemic - A National Emergency - It Is Crucial To Look At The Lifestyles We Have Acquired
By: Paul Oliver | - Obesity epidemic is a term which describes the timely and accurate health condition caused by overweight populations around the world. It is indeed a shocking fact that obesity epidemic as the name suggests has become an epidemic in literal sense. The obesity epidemic condition in America outweighs the gravity of the problem in every country in the world bringing forth health hazards which proclaim National emergency in the frontline.
While obesity epidemic is common to both chil ...
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- Childhood Obesity - As Parents, Now Is The Time For Us To Encourage A Healthy Lifestyle
By: Paul Oliver | - Health problems such as obesity have become a major issue in America as well as the world. Childhood obesity statistics reveal staggering facts about the situation in America. The number keeps increasing each year and authorities are trying to take action to prevent it. But has it really resolved the issue?
Children are the most hit area when it comes to obesity. According to childhood obesity statistics, if the parents of the child have been obese when they were small, the child ...
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- Body Fat Guidelines To Support Healthy Weight Loss In Children And Adults
By: Tess Thompson | - Obesity is the excessive accumulation of fat. It can have negative affects upon the overall health of an individual. A person is considered overweight or obese based on his Body Mass Index (BMI). The BMI is calculated by dividing the weight of an individual by the square of the height (lbs/in2). According to the World Health Organization (WHO):A person with a BMI of 25 is overweightAn individual with a BMI of 30 or above is considered obese.
These numbers and indexes should be treated as ...
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- Health Risks Of Childhood Obesity And Natural Weight Loss Programs For Overweight Children
By: Tess Thompson | - We all know that obesity can increase the possibility of certain serious diseases significantly. Many times the seeds of obesity are sown in childhood, since significant weight gained in childhood is often carried into adulthood.That is not the only concern that exists with regards to childhood obesity. Childhood obesity is also the cause behind various adult diseases that are being reported in children and adolescents. The incidence of such diseases was previously almost nonexistent among child ...
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- Causes Of Childhood Obesity
By: Jan Edwards | - Causes of childhood obesity
The UK government finally admits....Most children in Britain are not doing enough exercise to keep themselves healthy and prevent obesity. That didn't really take a lot of working out!
Over 260,000 people in England responded to the poll for the official Change4Life campaign, which suggests (rather than "concludes) that children are leading increasingly sedentary and less active lifestyles. Again, it didn't really take a lot of thinking about, did it? Un ...
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- What Is Child Obesity
By: natural remedies | - Childhood obesity has become a dramatic problem in not only the United States but also in other developed countries of the world. The childhood problem stems from a condition whereas excess body fat begins to negatively affect the child's well being and health. Since the presence of childhood obesity has such a vast effect upon a child's health the problem is considered by many physicians to be of paramount importance and has been designated as a serious childhood health concern.
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- Teaching Children About Obesity
By: natural remedies | - Obesity is a huge and growing problem in America and around the world. And the childhood edition of this problem is a 21st century tragedy thats not only costing our nation billions of dollars, but its costing millions of kids their confidence, their self esteem, their willingness to try something new in public for fear of failure, and consequently their capacity to live full and productive lives.
More and more parents are hiring personal trainers to work with thei ...
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- Obese Children Watching
By: natural remedies | - Today's children make up the digital generation. They've been surrounded by computers their entire life and are not as physically active as children of past generations were. Instead of going outside and playing, they tend to hang out indoors, watching TV and playing computer and video games. the amount of time spent in sedentary activities is a strong predictor of weight gain. According to the recent studies, decreasing the amount of activity by less than four minutes each day can result in a p ...
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- Health Risk Of Obese Children
By: natural remedies | - Obesity is not just a cosmetic consideration; it is a dire health dilemma directly harmful to one's health. In the United States, roughly 300,000 deaths per year are directly related to obesity, and more than 80% of these deaths are in patients with a BMI (body mass index, which will be discussed later in this article) over 30. Obesity also increases the risk of developing a number of chronic diseases. In the United States, women are slightly more at risk for becoming obese than men. Race and et ...
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- The Devastating Psychological Effects Of Child Obesity
By: Joanna Dolgoff | - The psychological effects of being an overweight child are severe. Overweight children tend to suffer from low self-esteem, depression and loneliness. These children also face discrimination beginning at a very young age and are more likely to become suicidal.
Obesity and Self-Identity/Depression
Children get a sense of their own identity by monitoring how others perceive them. A child's self-esteem is greatly influenced by how others respond to them. Since our ...
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- Diet For Obese Children
By: natural remedies | - Obesity has been receiving a lot of media attention recently with statistics showing that the problem is increasing at an alarming rate. Historically obesity has been exclusively seen as a problem of adults, becoming more prevalent with advancing age, however with childrens lifestyles becoming less and less active due to a number of factors, obesity in children is also on the rise. There have always been fat children but they were always an exception to the norm.
Excessive ...
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- Finding Weight Loss Plans For Children
By: Andrew Maule | - Are you looking for a weight loss plan for your child or children you are responsible for? Weight problems are ever more present in todays day an age where fast food and junk food are all too often seen as real food. Children are gaining unhealthy weight and ruining their childhoods in the process. Overweight children are often the brunt of many jokes and many times made to be outcast in their social groups at school and in social situations. If you are trying to help a child out of thei ...
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- Childhood Obesity Obesity In Children And Adolescents Statistics And Risk Factors
By: Daniel Beasley | - Kids are supposed to gain weight as they age; however there is a limit to how much weight they should gain. The prevalence of fast food, sugared snacks, computers, and video games, coupled with a decrease in physical activity, has caused more U.S. children to become overweight or obese.
A serious medical condition affecting children (ages 6 through 11) and adolescents (ages 12 through 19), childhood obesity occurs when a child is well above the normal weight for his or her age and ...
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- Genetic Factors Contributing To Obesity
By: Daniel Beasley | - Research has shown that if both parents are obese, there is a 71 percent chance that their children will be obese. If one of the parents is obese, there is a 42 percent chance that their children will be obese. Furthermore, if neither of the parents are obese, there is an 8 percent chance that their children will be obese.
Some researchers believe that children inherit their body structure from their parents. Children of bigger built parents (endomorphs) are usually big and children of n ...
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- Causes Of Childhood Obesity : Who Is To Blame?
By: Jan Edwards | - Overweight children often suffer at school from teasing about their appearance and stereotypes regarding their character, due to preconceptions that overweight children are "lazy" or "have no feelings".
They are often subjected to exclusion by their peers, which can affect their emotional well-being.
Many obese children are so embarrassed by their bodies that they try and disguise the problem by wearing oversized but unflattering clothes.
They are also reluctant to take ...
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- How To Protect Our Children From Obesity
By: James Rosenau | - When we were children we grew up worrying about getting on the bicycle and riding with our friends or playing baseball and football. We always had plenty of choices to get the exercise that we needed and didnt even know we were getting it. Now days you can see that things have changed. We used to have to go to our friends house to talk to them and now they have cell phones and internet to communicate. Meaning they dont have to move or walk anymore. They also have video games to ...
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- Modeling Life For Your Children
By: true2you | - Fast forward 20 years; your children might be 20, 25 or maybe even 35. It doesn't really matter how old they are. What matters is whether or not they will learn the important family values that you wish to impart. Now I understand that, as mothers, we don't have complete control over the choices our children will make in their adult years. They won't always choose our values, and that's okay. However, when they are still at home, we have more influence than you might imagine. By simply "be ...
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- Baby Fat Or Belly Fat: Catching Childhood Weight Problems Early
By: Bev Grey | - Will your child's baby fat go away by itself, or should you be concerned?
Doctors are seeing more overweight children develop Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and other life-threatening conditions at younger and younger ages. Most of these conditions can be prevented with a change of lifestyle. If you think too much fuss is made over children being overweight, maybe you need to reconsider.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, ...
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- Children Eating Habits
By: Peter Hutch | - Eating Habbits in Children
Children need to develop good eating habits early in life. Overweight is the most common nutrition problem among American children today, nearly tripling over the past 30 years. Twenty-five to fifty percent of todays children will become over-weight or obese adults. If children learn to make proper food choices, these statistics can be decreased.
CHANGING HABITS
Using food as a reward to entice good behavior. "Behave now ...
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- Obesity In Our Children Has Now Reached The Very Young
By: Don Saunders | - Obesity is now at epidemic levels in the US and, perhaps not surprisingly, is now commonly being seen in teenagers. It would seem however that this epidemic has now spread outside of the adult and adolescent population and we are starting to see obesity at young ages that many people are finding it difficult to believe.
Although it is hard to believe, a recent study that looked at just under two thousand children reported a disturbingly large number of both overweight and obese ch ...
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- Finally Something Is Being Done To Tackle Obesity In Schools
By: Don Saunders | - The rate or obesity in our children is increasing quickly and the blame, to a certain extent, is being laid at the door of our schools. It is no surprise therefore that we are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of articles talking about child obesity and cafeteria foods.
During the past 20 years the incidence of overweight among 6 to 11 year olds has increased from 7% to almost 18.8% while the incidence among teenagers has risen from 5% to 17.1%. and, until recently, there h ...
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- Is Gastric Bypass Surgery The Right Solution For Obese Children?
By: Don Saunders | - While the number of gastric bypass surgeries being performed each year is going up as obesity rates continue to rise in most western countries, a lot of people still believe that surgery is not the right solution for obesity in teens. Nonetheless, this could be changing and, although numbers are still relatively small, teenage gastric bypass surgeries increased by 300% between 2000 and 2003.
There are presently two considerations for most surgeons when it comes to surgery as an an ...
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- Why Are We Seeing So Many Obese Children?
By: Don Saunders | - Obesity rates, which have already reached epidemic proportions in many western countries, are continuing to rise and so it is not surprising that we are seeing an increasing number of overweight children. The dangers of childhood obesity today are all too clear, but what leads to child obesity?
As with many conditions there is no one cause of child obesity and several different factors, usually working together, come into the equation when we are looking at obesity in children.
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- 4 Quick And Simple Meal Planning Tips For Families Battling Child Obesity
By: Don Saunders | - If you are one of the many families trying to tackle to problem of child obesity today then here are four tips to help you when it comes to meal planning:
Tip 1 - Buy the right ingredients. The starting point for any meal planning is to ensure that you are working with the right ingredients and here we would suggest that you should look at meals consisting of about 50% vegetables and fruit, 25% proteins and grains and at least one serving of milk or low-fat yogurt per day.
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- Is It My Fault That My Child Is Obese?
By: Don Saunders | - Whether or not it is your fault that your child is obese is a very difficult question to answer although, in most cases, it is probably true to say that you are at least in part to blame. What is true however is that it is certainly your responsibility as a parent to lead to fight to solve the problem. But where do your start?
Most children will follow the lead of their parents and so your starting point must be to make sure that you are following a healthy diet. If you are not ea ...
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- 3 Reasons For Skyrocketing Child Obesity
By: Don Saunders | - A few short years ago child obesity was a rare thing but today it is all too common around the world and especially in the United States, which now has one of the highest rates of child obesity of any country in the world. There are of many reasons for this problem, but here are the three main causes:
1. A lack of exercise. When I think back to my own childhood it was common for kids to spend most of their free time out of the house running around all over the neighborhood with th ...
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- The Ten Commandments Of Healthy Weight Loss
By: Bev Grey | - Losing weight isnt easy, especially when youre constantly on the go. Following my Ten Commandments for Healthy Weight Loss can make the process a little easier to manage and the results, inspiring. If you find it helpful, you might want to post it on your refrigerator door, TV, in your office cubicle, or any other place where you will see it every day.
I. Thou shalt not eat unless thou art hungry. Eating when bored, lonely, angry, or upset will increase thy weight tenfol ...
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- 8 Tips For Dealing With A Picky Eater
By: Bev Grey | - If your child is a picky eater, there is a good chance that he or she is also overweight, since many picky eaters only consume foods high in fat or sugar. Giving your child a whole new outlook on healthy food is all you need to ensure wholesome choices at mealtimes. How can you change your childs food tastes without a major battle? Here are some suggestions:
1. Set a good example. If you enjoy a wide variety of foods and dont complain about the ones you dont lik ...
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- 5 Easy Ways To Help Your Family Lose Weight In 2008
By: Bev Grey | - If your family is overweight and at risk for obesity-related illnesses such as diabetes, heart problems, high blood pressure, etc., you may be able to make a big difference in their health with a few simple changes:
1. Turn off the TV. Many families turn on the TV as soon as they get up in the morning, and dont turn it off until everyone goes to bed. Why live your lives through TV characters? Except for homework, limit your total screen time (TV, computer and vid ...
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- A Message For Overweight Kids And Teens: Ask For Help
By: Bev "Grandma" Grey | - If you are overweight kid, don't be afraid to ask your parents for help. I know that you may think they are too busy, don't think it is a problem, or will just tell you to "eat less and get up and move instead of sitting around all the time. It isn't quite that simple.
Please let your parents know how you feel. They love you and want what is best for you. They want you to be happy. They may not have any idea how your weight is affecting your life. I'm sure if you are open and h ...
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- Effects Of Obesity Increase Among Children
By: Abdulmajeed Alkatheeri | - Recent statistics shows that the number of girls using diabetes medicine has increased to the double in 2002 and 2005 in the United States. The main reason for this increase is obesity.
It was announced in the American Public Health Association that children at different ages are taking drugs and medicines originally made for adults' treatment. These drugs are made to treat adults for heart disease which are caused by eating too much and lack of exercises. Also there was an ...
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- Helping Your Child Be Healthy And Fit
By: Iri McPhee | - Today, feeding children is based on concerns about heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and high blood pressure. There is reason to be concerned. More than 20 percent of Western children are overweight with a good chance that 50 to 70 percent of them will remain overweight as adults. It is important for parents to set good examples of healthful eating.
Research shows that children develop eating habits similar to those of their parents. While it is a parent's job to provide balanced ...
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- Child Obesity And Arthritis
By: Cliff Baker | - Arthritis is typically associated as an older person's health problem, so doctors and other health practitioners often do not expect obese children to face the same painful experience. Consequently, arthritis symptoms frequently are not treated promptly because they are most likely not accurately diagnosed until the pain becomes severe.
Growing pains and certain diseases, like chicken pox and mumps, are regarded almost as rites of passage in youth development. However, there are ...
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- The Roots And Causes Of Childhood Obesity
By: Cliff Baker | - The roots of childhood obesity can be loosely grouped into both controllable and non-controllable factors. The controllable factors include those that when changes are applied, they may result in children losing weight or simply remaining physically fit. The options with the non-controllable factors are very limiting.
Among the controllable factors that impact childhood obesity are lack of physical activity, a sedentary lifestyle (for example, more TV viewing than activity, like s ...
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- Childhood Obesity: Physical Effects
By: Gurion Blattman | - Obesity can be a problem as early as kindergarten for some children. Children who suffer from obesity will most likely endure a lifelong struggle with physical and emotional consequences.
Physical effects of obesity in children include difficulty keeping up with physical activities, problems sleeping, and trouble with breathing. Not only are obese children more often affected by asthma, they also have problems with sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is being recognized with more freque ...
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- Teaching Healthy Eating Habits Will Help Obese Children
By: DMF | - Obesity in school aged kids is out of control. It is the parent responsibility to establish limits and control the amount of food the child eat, children lack this ability.
Here are some tips that will help you keep track of your child's food and eating regimen and help him fight childhood obesity. By eating poorly and not having good eating habits will effect the eating habits of your child and will lead to being lazy and becoming heavier and unhealthy. Your entire family will b ...
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- Fighting Back Against Child Obesity
By: Tom Haye | - Experts tell us that amount of overweight or obese children have reached epidemic proportions. The current figures show that over 65% of Americans are obese with almost 30% falling into the clinically obese range. This trend spills over into the statistics for children with around 15% to 20% considered to be overweight and almost 30% of those are clinically obese. Research has shown that children who are born to parents who are obese are likely to become obese themselves.
Man ...
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- Sleep Apnea Effects In Overweight Children
By: Nishanth Reddy | - Sleep apnea is recognized as a common condition among overweight children. If your child has sleep apnea, he stops breathing for a period of 10 to 20 seconds during sleep. The interruption of breathing may extend up to 2 minutes. This episode may occur hundreds of times in a single night.
Sleep apnea can be caused by complete obstruction of airway or partial obstruction. Therefore obstructive sleep apnea is defined as obstruction of airway during sleep. Due to the obstruction of ...
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- Weight Loss Camps For Teens And Children
By: Chris Chew | - If you are a parent concerned about your overweight children or teenager, why not take them for a vacation at a weight loss camp. There are 2 benefits in this, firstly, you are on a vacation with your kids spending quality time together and at the same time able to educate your children or even yourself about permanent weight loss. Your family can thus live a healthy lifestyle and avoid the dangers of obesity diseases.
Every year, millions of children around the world leave home i ...
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