Childhood Obesity

Childhood Obesity
Obese children will grow to be obese adults. In other words, an entire generation of unhealthy people.

Causes and Effects of Childhood Obesity
A few years ago, having a chubby child was considered to be a good thing as it was a sign of well-to-do family, but today a child being overweight is an invitation for chronic diseases like the diabetes and hypertension.

Childhood Obesity Facts
Childhood obesity can lead to numerous health problems in children. Here are some childhood obesity facts that can help you understand causes and prevention of obesity in children.

Fast food and Obesity in Children
We all know what causes obesity, and that is eating too much of the wrong kinds of food and not getting enough exercise. Some studies have shown that fast food causes obesity in children. However, the fast food industry claims that their foods do not cause obesity in kids. So, is there a link between fast food and obesity in children?

Childhood Obesity Statistics and Facts
According to research, Childhood Obesity results in high percentage of Obesity at adult stage as much as 70 percent. What is worse is that this rate is on increase and almost doubled in the last three decades. Let us have a look at more intriguing Statistics and Facts about childhood Obesity

Authorities May Take 218-pound 8-Year-Old Away from His Mother
British officials said Monday that they are considering taking a morbidly obese 8-year-old boy into protective custody unless his mother improves his diet.

Elementary Principal Bans Playing Tag During Recess
No wonder our country is dealing with an epidemic of childhood obesity—another elementary school principal has said that children can no longer play tag, touch football, or other unsupervised "chasing games" during recess.

10 Easy Back-to-School Tips to Help Children (and Parents!) Eat Smarter This Fall
Childhood obesity is at an all-time high in America, while the overall nutritional value of school lunches continues to plummet.

Childhood Obesity prevention tips
Watch out if your child does not spend his/her energy in any physical activity and instead he/she likes sitting in front of a TV screen for hours eating junk food, if he/she is getting lazy to such an extent that he/she don’t even want to move across home, if your child eats too much and move too little, this might lead your child to obesity...

Childhood Obesity - What You Need to Know
Childhood obesity is a large and growing problem everywhere in the western world. Obesity affects a child's entire life if not caught and changed early.

Child Obesity and Its Variety of Problems
There is a drastic rise in childhood obesity since past few years, if it goes unchecked for few more years then it could be very harmful. The advent of technology has given birth to many harmful effects especially on the health of young children either directly or indirectly.

It Aint Baby Fat – Obese Kids Are In Danger
Doctors, conducting ultrasound tests to probe inside their young subjects, found that obese children, as young as 10, had the arteries of 45-year-olds; not to mention other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease.

Obese Children Get Picked On Too Much!
I've always felt sorry for the obese child who gets picked on too much. If you look into their eyes you can see and feel their pain.

Put The Parents Of Overweight Children In Prison
An article that compares childhood obesity to child abuse.

Why Are We Seeing So Many Obese Children?
There is no doubt that childhood obesity is rising alarmingly and so we take a look at just what is causing the current epidemic.

Fat Friends Equals a Fat You
Did I hear " Fat birds of a Fat feather flock together".

Middle-aged Britons Healthier Than American Counterparts, Says Study
Higher US health spending fails to bridge gap with UK · Disparities may be result of childhood obesity

Child Obesity facts and treatment
Article contains the information on child obesity and their treatments, and some relative facts that parents take in consideration and their child free from obesity

Don’t Let Your Child Fall Into the Obesity Trap!
More and more children each day are falling into the fat trap, and it’s scary. – Being overweight puts them at a higher risk for diabetes and heart disease, and no parent wants to see their child go through that. Here we’ll address some different things you can do to help your kid be at their healthiest!

What Parents Can Do to Fight Obesity in Children
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re well aware of the huge coverage in the media, especially television, regarding the rapidly growing rate of obesity in children.

Top Tips for Weight Control in Children
Be firm in relation to your goals in relation to your child's diet and exercise program. Be patient and persistent, with a degree of flexibility in your approach, but do not weaken. You can't expect your child to eat sensibly and exercise regularly if you are lolling on the couch, glued to the TV, waving them out the door with a jumbo sized packet of corn chips clutched in your fist.

New Nutrition Standards Could Help To Curb Rising Obesity Rates In Children
The prevalence of junk food in our schools has undoubtedly been fuelling the problem of rising obesity rates in children. Hopefully, however, a newly published report will finally put a stop to the ready availability of junk food in our schools.

Could Pure Fruit Juice Help To Lower Obesity In Children?
It has long been held that you should not give your children pure fruit juice because it encourages weight gain, but is this really the case? A new study has provided an interesting answer.

China Targets Childhood Obesity With Compulsory Dancing
Compulsory waltzing will be added to the Chinese national curriculum in September under a new campaign to reduce childhood obesity.

Child Obesity - What Factors Result In A Child Being Obese?
Obesity is a hot topic these days as obesity rates in the West continue to rise at an alarming rate and obesity is now commonly being seen in children. It is no surprise therefore that a great deal of research is being channeled into the problem of child obesity in an effort to find both its cause and a cure.

Obesity In Young Children Is Now Being Seen In The Very Young
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States and has now even become a substantial problem in teenagers. A recent study however shows that the problem now extends beyond the adult and adolescent population and that obesity is being seen in children as young as three years of age.

Digestible Nonsense
It is absurd to try to learn about trends in child obesity from the story of one extremely fat boy. By Zoe Williams

Rewarding Our Children... with Obesity
Medicating or manipulating with food ain't a great long term strategy for anything. As long as we use food as a reward for certain behaviours (especially with our kids), we're in trouble. We are a society which starts this pattern early and we need to stop it.

Fast Food Feeding
We are seeing more obesity in children at younger ages. The rise in childhood obesity has been steadily climbing in recent years.

Overweight Kids
Is your child overweight or struggle with weight issues and addictive eating? Discover an underlying cause of weight issues and what you, the parent, can do about it.

Childhood Obesity Television
Could your television be making your children fat? A recent scientific study suggests your television could be the greatest enemy in the fight against childhood obesity. Find out the insidious reason why that television stations don't want you to know...

Obesity, Its Hazards and Cures
More and more children have been found to have the overweight and obesity problem and in children there will be many more health problems at a younger age. These children are in danger of a stroke, heart disease, diabetes and high cholesterol. By the time these children are older they will be fighting against multiple diseases.

How Parents Can Affect Their Children's Weight
Can parents help affect the weight of their children? This article describes a number of ways in which they can have a significant affect on their weight and ultimate livelihood.

Children 'gain Weight As They Watch Tv'
Children consume nearly as many calories as are in a packet of crisps with every hour they spend watching television, according to US research.

Declare WAR On Childhood Obesity
Enough junk food. Enough TV and computer games. Enough of idle time eating, eating and eating some more. Enough of the CRAP coming out of the food manufacturing industry. It's time we declared WAR on childhood obesity.

Childhood Obesity Study
How many more dire predictions do we need from one childhood obesity study after another before we take action? Let's make junk food manufacturers put health warnings on their nutritionally barren, hazardous foods...

Backlash in the School Cafeteria
Almost one in five school-aged children is considered obese in the United States.

Childhood Obesity - What can we do?
Thoughts on the childhood obesity pandemic, as seen from a full-time athlete's point of view.

Mum you are KILLING me
Is your child overweight, are you worried for him/her, are you overweight and want to do something about it. Well there is no time like the present.

Kids Learn Vital Lessons to Help Fight Childhood Obesity
The prevalence of childhood obesity has quadrupled in children ages 6 to11 and nearly doubled in adolescents ages 12 to19 in the past 25 years according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES).

Doctors warn 22m children are too fat
As many as 22 million children throughout the world are overweight, according to the World Heart Federation, which warns that obesity is laying the ground for a 'pandemic' of heart disease.

Slavish eating, child obesity, and green bananas: what the researchers found
Life may have been harsh in the desert quarries of ancient Rome, but the labourers managed a River Cafe diet all the same.

The Fat Kids are Back
Notes on the Couch Potato Nation.