In my last blog, I share that obesity in children is mainly caused by unhealthy eating habits, and inadequate physical activity. Because these eating
patterns begin in early childhood, attempts to reduce overweight among children
must start early. The essential and effective approach for preventing obesity
or overweight in children is through practicing healthy eating diet (Macé & Shahkhalili, 2010).
Eating behaviors as well as
physical activity among children are guides which are established in childhood,
but some studies consider that physical activities may not be effective enough
to reduce obesity. Selections of children’s foods are influenced by what
parents provide them and healthy foods give nutrition for developing bodies while
modeling safe eating habits and ways.
Diet with
minimal or standard amount of fats and provision of high simple carbohydrates
has been reported to be simply as valuable in generating a small weight loss as
an equivalent diet having high input of complex carbohydrates. Nevertheless, some
analyzes propose that sugar and drinks apply a weaker impact on satiety and can
contribute a lot in promoting the rate of obesity among children. Some other issues
are whole grain and dietary fiber element of the diet, this is vegetables and
fruits. Furthermore, raising amount of dietary protein from 12 to 20% of sum
energy can provide an extra approach to reducing fat and adequate carbohydrate
diets, and have the possibility to improve satiety (Debruyne, Pinna, & Noss, 2011, p.279). In contrary,
Professionals consider that children are planned to be sedentary or sporty and
forcing them into physical activities can have minimal impact on whether the
child is obese or not (Mela, 2005, p.35).
The research reported that although lower than half of boys and one in seven
girls do the suggested length of exercise daily and this is not reflected in
their physical appearance.
Availability of food, family
practices, and social norms at schools and child care services help in controlling
the eating behaviours of children. They may influence kids from taking a healthy
diet or make sure those children with excessive contact to unwholesome foods,
which possess more calories, have knowledge about its hazards. Furthermore, studies
report that parents practicing healthy eating habits would make their children
follow the same. Therefore, practicing better eating behaviors in children and
making sure that they retain these practices for a longer time would help in
reducing the possibility of obesity.
Providing a healthy diet is the
keystone of most favorable development and growth for babies and teens. A healthy
diet permits children to carry on with their education successfully. Eating
wide range of meals during early age is probably to set up food preferences
which will remain into old age. The food favorites of several people at old age
are likely to resemble the foods which they mostly consumed during their early
age. For instance, kids who consume huge amount of energy dense foods are
probably to become obese, particularly if they are inactive.
The study involving around 400
six years old kids in California reported that the quantity of exercise children
perform is not connected with their Body Mass Index (Wing, 2009). Children who perform enough exercises were in a good
health when they evaluated the fat contents in their blood and blood pressure;
however the quantity of exercise they perform did not affect the fat level. In
early age, physical activity is linked with a continuous development in
metabolic health but not with an adjustment in obesity or BMI. From above
discussion, we can conclude that eating good diet is more effective than
forcing children to do exercises. Despite this opposition, children should be
encouraged to do more exercises to enhance their better health.
References
Debruyne, L., Pinna, K., & Noss, E. (2011). Nutrition
& Diet Therapy. Florence, KY: Cengage Learning.
Jay, P. (2011). Obesity on
Children. Journal of Economic Perspectives , 25(2): 140–159.
Macé, K., & Shahkhalili, C.
(2010). Dietary fat and fat types as early determinants of childhood obesity: a
reappraisal. Int J Obes (Lond) , 34(7): 12-30.
Mela, D. (2005). Food,
diet and obesity. New York: CRC Press.
Wing, K. (2009). Healthy Diet in
Children. Journal of Cunsulting and Clinical Psychology, 32(3): 2-34.
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