What are the effects of obesity on children?

Obesity is very painful for people nowadays, because if you are too heavy, it will become inconvenient for you to walk, and you may even be unable to do any heavy physical work. As long as you do physical work, you will feel a little breathless. Especially for children, the impact will be even greater, and it will even cause great problems for their growth and intellectual development, and they are prone to some diseases.

Obesity poses a great threat to the health of children and adolescents. Foreign research reports indicate that obese children's intake of total energy, fat, fat heat ratio, monounsaturated fatty acids, salt and grains is significantly higher than that of non-obese children. Sugar, salt and cereal foods have the effect of increasing systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Therefore, obese children are prone to primary hypertension and hyperlipidemia.

If a child becomes obese, it will delay the time when he or she starts walking, and often causes genu valgum, genu valgum, flat feet, etc. due to calcium deficiency and overweight. Due to obesity, children's body's reaction and resistance to the outside world are reduced, making them prone to various infections, especially respiratory infections.

Obese children have more body fat, reduced chest wall compliance, and insufficient effective respiratory volume, which leads to relative insufficient oxygen supply to the brain. Due to brain hypoxia, ATP decreases, synaptic function decreases, thinking speed slows down, and IQ decreases. Due to the slowed nerve conduction speed, the effector organs are slow to react, the operating ability is poor, and the movements are inflexible, so obese children appear clumsy, introverted and unsociable, which in turn hinders the development of intelligence.

Therefore, preventing and treating childhood obesity is an important part of improving the quality of life of the entire nation and preventing adult coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and cerebrovascular disease.

Childhood obesity can be divided into infant obesity, toddler obesity, schoolchild obesity and adolescent obesity. There are two periods when children are most likely to gain weight: one is the infancy period when adipose tissue develops most vigorously, and the other is the early puberty period.

During the infancy period, the main feature is the proliferation of adipocytes accompanied by hypertrophy. In contrast, during adolescence, adipocytes primarily hypertrophy and proliferate. Since obesity in infancy is accompanied by adipocyte proliferation, it can be seen that it is related to later obesity. Of course, there are also cases of natural relief. Therefore, obesity during infancy can also be regarded as benign obesity. About 70% to 80% of childhood obesity and pre-adolescent obesity will develop into adult obesity. Therefore, children's weight loss should start from early childhood.

This article introduces in detail the effects of obesity on children. The younger the children, the greater the impact will be. In particular, it will cause the fat in the child's body to increase and cause brain hypoxia. Parents should try their best to avoid this from happening and not let their children become obese too early.