The effect of obesity on children

In recent time, there has been an increase in the rate obesity among children. This has equally brought about obesity related conditions among children. There are so many ways obesity affect children, mentally, psychologically physically and health wise. The most common ones include...


EARLY MATURATION
Obesity can cause early development of puberty in girls. A condition that can increase the likelihood of menstrual irregularities. This is associated with an increase in the distribution of fat to the upper body. It increases the risk of cardiovascular problems.


SLEEPING DISORDER
Obesity can cause sleeping disorder in children. They experience intervals of cessation of breathing that last for about 10 seconds or more. This is called 'sleep apnea'. During these periods, oxygen levels in the blood falls. This causes restlessness at night.


CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
Obesity in children and poor eating habits leads to increase in the level of blood cholesterol. This is one of the major causes of heart diseases and premature deaths. When you are overweight or obsessed, your blood pressure rises, putting more strain on the heart.

PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
Obesed children are often teased about their size and rejected by their peers. They don't often in sports or other activities that require alot of movement because they are not always able to move as fast as others. This can bring about isolation, rejection and depression.


Being overweight or obesed leads to a variety of health, mental, physical and psychological issues.
However introducing a good and healthy eating and healthy living habits to your child(ren) from infant and gradually exposing them to exercises will help in checking their weight from an early stage. This will also help them live a healthy life.

Metabolism and weight loss

Some people eat a large amount of food always and still maintain a very good athletic figure. if you ask how they manage it you will get an answer like it is their metabolism. What then is metabolism and what role does it play in weight loss.

Simply put ,metabolism is the rate at which we use up energy as calories. The higher our metabolic rate the more calories we burn and the better for our weight loss and vise versa. this however depends on a number of factors.

Eating less can slow down your metabolism and weight loss according to most nutritionists. They believe that when you eat small amount of food or calories, the body believes that there is not enough food available. It then start to slow metabolism in an effort to conserve the available energy. This in turn slows down your weight loss as the body now instead of using up the reserved fat will keep it and start burning muscle tissues.

The best way to avoid this is to make sure you eat enough food to keep the body from sensing that it should go into starvation. However you should control your calorie intake to enable you achieve your weight loss. Visiting qualified nutritionists is advisable so that they can tell you the most appropriate amount of calories suitable for your dietary requirement. When dieting to achieve weight loss metabolism may slow down, however exercise can help take care of the extra calories and help your weight loss.
Regular exercise remains one of the best ways to improve your metabolic rate, gain more muscles and achieve your weight loss as it helps the body burn more calories efficiently.