Childhood obesity can now be said to pervade the world, 99% of which is simple obesity, according to the data provided by the international obesitytaskforce (IOTF) and WHO’s burden of disease report, the current global child overweight rate is close to 10%, obesity rate of 2% to 3%, although the standards used in different countries may Although the standards used in different countries may be different, and there are large differences between regions, but in general, all regions show a clear upward trend. The results of the 2005 study on the physical fitness and health of Chinese students show that the detection rate of overweight and obesity among Han Chinese students continues to increase, becoming another major factor affecting the nutritional health of students, with emphasis on urban areas.
Obesity in childhood is likely to continue into adulthood, and without early intervention, about 75% to 80% of obese adolescents will continue into adulthood, so early intervention is needed.
The cause of obesity is very complex. In the past, people generally think: the basic reason of obesity is due to the excessive intake of energy, but the consumption of energy is less, which leads to the excessive accumulation of fat in the body. In fact, the process of obesity formation is not so simple, but the result of the joint action of genetic material and environmental factors. Let’s talk about modern society, child obesity and what factors are related to it.
1, genetic factors have to say, the occurrence of obesity in children have more obvious genetic tendency, basic metabolic rate, appetite and eating behavior also have a strong genetic tendency. Related research shows that the role of genetic factors on the formation of obesity accounts for about 20% to 40%, suggesting that obesity and genes related to both parents are obese, one of the two parents obese, both parents are not fat children obesity incidence of 75%, 40% and 15% respectively. Therefore, if obese parents, or family obese people, pay more attention to their children’s health.
2, behavior habits we are going to say is the children’s daily behavior habits, which mainly refers to eating habits, exercise habits and sleep habits.
First of all, let’s talk about eating habits. Appetite, overeating is the main reason for obesity, in modern society, children’s daily diet, the amount of staple food intake per meal, too much intake of fast food) food, desserts, soft drinks, too little intake of vegetables and fruits, resulting in more and more obese children now. And eating fast, breakfast eat less and other bad eating habits and behavior, can affect the energy intake of children and increase the risk of obesity.
These dietary factors cause children to consume more and more calories, children’s weight significantly increased, and eventually led to obesity.
Next is the exercise habits of children. The occurrence of obesity is the result of a long-term imbalance between energy intake and energy consumption, and physical activity is an important part of energy consumption. Less and less physical activity is the most important reason to explain this phenomenon. Studies have shown that inactive children are more likely to be obese than active children, and that an increase in static lifestyle is an important potential risk factor for the obesity epidemic. Static lifestyle mainly includes watching TV and playing computer, which I believe parents are not unfamiliar with. This means that some children do not eat much but are getting fatter and fatter.
Overweight, obese children leisure time physical activity level is much lower than normal weight children, which caused their own body condition is increasingly not considerable, the body will be more lazy activities, which is a vicious circle, how to stop this vicious circle, it depends on the parents Oh.
Once again, we have to talk about the baby’s sleep habits, of course, here only shallow mention, according to the current research progress and social flow, we can see that sleep time and obesity is negatively correlated, and independent of other risk factors. Sleep time is found to be a risk factor for childhood obesity, while on the contrary, sufficient but not excessive sleep can not only effectively reduce childhood obesity, more can be conducive to the development of children’s height.
Obesity factors we will briefly say so some. The following we have to say is the harm of obesity, parents think that growing fat is “over-nutrition”, “adequate nutrition”, in fact, are wrong, obese children are only excess calories, is too much fat, other nutrition may also be insufficient, and Obesity leads to many problems
We will mainly talk about three main types of hazards.
The first type of harm, the future susceptible to chronic diseases. As we have mentioned earlier, obesity not only causes health hazards, but also leads to an important cause of morbidity and mortality of various diseases in adulthood, such as cardiovascular disease, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, endocrine diseases, etc., and chronic non-communicable diseases have become the first cause of death in China at present. In addition, a study found that, regardless of whether children’s obesity continues into adulthood, childhood obesity will increase the risk of various chronic diseases later.
The second type of harm, obesity affects intelligence. Now, parents are eager to see their children, but obesity affects the intelligence of children, which leads to a decline in academic performance. Relevant laboratory research shows that obesity will cause fat in the brain tissue accumulation too much, the formation of obese brain, so that the brain sulcus tightly together, fold reduction, the cerebral cortex becomes smooth, poor neural network development, intelligence level is reduced.
The third type of harm, damage psychological behavior. Obesity in the cause of many physical diseases at the same time, but also to varying degrees of children’s psychological behavior damage. These psychological, mental and emotional damages will continue into adulthood as the obese condition is maintained. The psychological damage caused by obesity to children is mainly manifested by lack of self-confidence, discrimination, poor partnership, and poor sense of self. Compared to normal weight children, a larger percentage of obese children are depressed, are dissatisfied with their size and are often given insulting nicknames by their peers because of their obesity, etc.
Another thing we have to mention is that, according to a modern study: women who are obese in childhood will enter puberty earlier than their peers, which is what we commonly call early sexual maturity in children. It is generally believed that the increase in body fat content, the hypothalamus and pituitary gland are less sensitive to the negative feedback effect of estrogen, causing an increase in estrogen secretion, prompting early development of the body. The premature development, baby early into puberty, early into the height development period, but shorten their own height development of the great time. As a parent, you should know that your child is not only missing height, but also confidence!
The damage is great!
So we have to pay attention to its pediatric obesity problem. As a parent, the most basic diet structure should still be aware of. As follows, is a simple health reference.
1, nutritional combination of protein, carbohydrates and fat is equally important to health, one cannot do without the other, the key lies in the clever combination. That is, the combination of foods rich in fats and beans and vegetables, and try to avoid eating with rice, noodles, potatoes and other carbohydrate-rich foods. This can increase nutrient intake, but also conducive to weight loss.
2, three meals rationally grasp the amount of food eaten at three meals is another key to maintaining health, to select the same nutrients but relatively low calorie food.
3, chew slowly swallow chewing can consume a certain amount of caloric energy, eat the same food, chew slowly than wolf swallow more conducive to maintaining a moderate weight.
4, do more exercise to keep away from obesity, the most fundamental way is more exercise. For obese children, especially during the day to keep enough exercise to avoid more residual heat in the body to accumulate into fat.
5, eat less and more meals will be the same amount of food divided into times to eat, compared to a day meal, nutrient intake without loss, but the body produces much less heat, the reason is that each meal to reduce the amount of food, can reduce the blood insulin level, thus reducing the accumulation of fat.
Thus, we know what we have to do is.
Firstly, limit the intake of high-calorie foods (fatty meat, animal offal, fried foods, creamy desserts, nuts, ice cream, chocolate, etc.); secondly, limit the intake of fine staple foods and eat more brown rice (brown rice flour), whole wheat (cereal), corn, etc. (wood ear) intake; Finally, moderate exercise is essential!
These words are not meant to be alarmist, but just to wake up parents. For the sake of baby’s health, for the sake of baby to have a brighter future, childhood obesity, have to be careful! That’s all for today, we’ll talk about it next time.