STOP! This Madness of Child Obesity

We all know that childhood obesity is not healthy. It's an epidemic, and you need only look around to see how dangerous it is becoming. The future of these children looks grim, and people are growing afraid. You don't have the power to solve this problem yourself. But if you have a child, stop a moment to consider his or her future.

Child obesity can be fatal

The effects of childhood obesity, if left untreated can be fatal. In fact, there are links to many different diseases from being an obese child. Heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure are just a few.

There are other effects of childhood obesity as well. At school, any child who is overweight could easily become the butt of jokes. They are frequently teased and tormented.

This is no life for a child, who never seems to be accepted and is always made fun of. Just think of what their life is like when no one asks them out to the school dance because they're "too fat". Nobody wants them to play on their sports team. They never seem to get invited to birthday parties.

Parents can make all the difference in controlling childhood obesity

When more parents realize the effects of childhood obesity, perhaps we will all stand up and make a change. But you can make a difference, starting with your own child at dinner time. Just by teaching your child the difference between what is healthy for them and what is not, you can begin to develop good eating habits that will reduce or stop childhood obesity. It is every parent's responsibility to teach their child the right and wrong way to do things. As far as childhood obesity is concerned, your child needs you to show them a better way to live. It begins with you. Don't let your child live a sad life full of health problems and loneliness.

Childhood obesity – a strain on your country's economy

In the United States hospital costs related to child and adolescent obesity have risen 300% over the last 20 years going from $ 35 million to $ 127 million in 1999. In 2004 a study released by Emory University showed obesity accounted for 27% of the growth in health care spending. A Health Affairs published study estimates that the United States will spend over 4 trillion dollars on health care by 2015. Obesity is an enemy that not only threatens our health and life expectancy, but is bankrupting countries in the process. The importance in the rise in childhood obesity is that it speaks against the scientific community's position that obesity is determined by a genetic code that must be discovered. If this were true, why would it now being showing up in the children over the last two decades?

Dieting and popping pills are not the answer to controlling childhood obesity

Anyone would be deceived if they said they have all the answers regarding the cause and solution to obesity. In a scientific environment which is hungry for knowledge, and a media atmosphere quick to release headline news, poor wisdom has been used in releasing its findings to the public. This has created weight loss as big business in many countries, full of half truths and broken promises, which at best try to treat and few heal us of this growing problem.

Childhood obesity is beyond the help of short term diet concepts, or magical weight loss supplements, which relieve parents of the responsibility of lifestyle reform. Parents must stop trying to treat the symptoms of obesity, but get to the real root of the problem. Our lifestyles no longer support the hormonal design of our bodies, we our fighting against thousands of years of hormonal evolution, and that is a lost battle. Obesity is a complex disease, caused by poor diet, lack of exercise activity, genetic or heredity influenced, stress, cultural and sleep deprivation. The only factor that is outside our control is the genes our parents handed down to us. The solution should be clear, focus on what is within our control and become responsible to control it. The answer is simple. Maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Winning the battle against childhood obesity requires a disciplined approach. As a parent you must commit to the internal change of heart today. It takes more than knowing what to do; you must develop beliefs which keep you doing what you know. You must mature to a place where the spirit, mind and body are in agreement. To defeat this enemy within it will take a spirit that is pure, a mind that is clear and a body that is obedient.