Health and Fitness For Children
Obesity in children
More and more children are putting on weight and heading towards the obese category, causing damaging long and short term affects to their health, as well as putting their futures at risk. To be classed as obese a child of 4, 10” could be as little as 10 and a half stone, a worrying statistic for many across the country.
Many parents don’t actually realise the long term health implications for an obese child. The list includes diabetes, heart disease and certain types of cancers, not to mention the unhappiness being ‘the fat child’ causes for youngsters.
What can we do?
Government health warnings have been issued to try to steer kids away from the fast food diet many have been used to, but taking the chips away from the children is not always that easy. Schools are encouraging healthy eating with many learning how to grow their own vegetables in a greenhouse onsite.
Other tactics have been Jamie Oliver’s very successful School Dinners campaign where he managed to change the way our children eat at school, binning the bad foods and enjoying healthy To Read More Click Here
Posted: January 27th, 2012 under Wellness, Fitness and Diet.
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