Why Obesity is a Chronic Disease Expressed
Childhood obesity is considered the body weight gain exceeding 20% the estimated ideal weight according to age, sex and child height. This problem is due to excess fat stored in adipose tissue.
Childhood obesity is a chronic disease. It is the disorder of affluent societies, where food resources are plentiful and varied but misused. No child is born obese, is or becomes obese due to the practice of bad habits in daily food, and little or no physical activity. We must also educate on food, and we must not forget that parents are the reference and mirror in which you look at every second, and if the parents have bad habits and eat only certain foods and reject others without logical reason, they imitate us and will do the same.
This pathology is increasingly affecting more children, and worried, concerned and alarm to both parents and pediatricians because it may be the cause of the occurrence of diseases of children or adults in full growth stage.
Consequences of childhood overweight
This is a physical and aesthetic problem that complicates any daily activity, which could create psychological problems as low self-esteem, anxiety and depression, but also means an increase in cholesterol and causes heart disease, arteriosclerosis and hypertension, and metabolic diseases like diabetes.
The absence of information, professional and family support and specific help in each case, can result in complex and other eating disorders are very common in teenagers such as anorexia and bulimia. Are false and misleading answers to the problem and begin practicing as emergency prevention or resolution, without knowing and ignoring the danger and the problems that cause these health habits, and eventually by death.