What are the dangers of obesity to children?

As the living standards continue to improve, people's requirements for their daily diet will become higher and higher, but many people will have inappropriate diets. Parents in particular should pay more attention to adjusting their children's diets. After all, they are growing up, and if there are mistakes, it will cause obesity, and obesity will cause their children to suffer from various diseases.

⑴ Obese babies learn to walk later than normal babies, and because their joints bear too much weight, they are easily worn out and cause joint pain. They are also prone to developing deformities such as flat feet, genu valgum or valgum, and hip varus. In addition, obesity leads to clumsy movements and is prone to accidents.

⑵ Obese children and adolescents are prone to hypertension, dyslipidemia and abnormal glucose metabolism. Severe cases may develop type 2 diabetes, which accelerates the formation of arteriosclerosis and causes early onset of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in adulthood. It should be emphasized that the popular view in the past was that all juvenile diabetes was type 1 diabetes. However, the incidence of type 2 diabetes in children is increasing at an alarming rate. According to statistics from Cincinnati Children's Hospital in the United States, the number of children with type 2 diabetes increased tenfold from 1982 to 1995, and currently type 2 diabetes accounts for 33% of newly diagnosed diabetic patients aged 10 to 19 years old. Moreover, the type of childhood diabetes is significantly related to obesity. The average body mass index of children with type 2 diabetes is 5±1.1 kg/m2, while the average body mass index of children of the same age with type 1 diabetes is only 20±0.8 kg/m2. Obesity clearly predisposes children to type 2 diabetes.

⑶ Obesity may cause breathing difficulties in children and adolescents, making them more susceptible to pneumonia and bronchitis. In severe cases, they may even develop sleep apnea syndrome. After falling asleep, the interval between each breath is prolonged, causing hypoxia, making them always sleepy and listless during the day.

⑷Other possible complications include: fatty liver, cholelithiasis, developmental abnormalities, etc.

⑸In addition to the above-mentioned physical harms, obesity also has negative psychological effects on children. Obese children are more likely to show depression and inferiority complex, and their intelligence levels are generally lower than those of children of normal weight.

⑹In addition, compared with normal children, obese children are more likely to become obese in adulthood. 80% of fat kids in adolescence will still be fat when they grow up. Moreover, those who have been obese since childhood have a significantly higher chance of developing complications and death than those who become obese in adulthood.

Many obese children are particularly prone to high blood pressure, because high blood pressure is a chronic disease after all. Once you have it, you will need to use medication for a long time. If you don't use medication to control it, the disease will become more and more serious, and may even cause your child to often have difficulty breathing, and it is also very easy to get pneumonia.