What are the dangers of obesity to children?

Living conditions are getting better and better now. As long as children have any requirements, parents will try their best to satisfy them, and will not restrict them on diet, because most parents believe that it is best for their children's health to be able to eat. But in fact, if children eat without restraint, it will easily lead to obesity. So below we will introduce to you the impact of obesity on children.

1. Obese children have high blood lipids

The blood lipids of obese children are significantly higher than those of normal children, and dyslipidemia is a high-risk factor for atherosclerosis.

2. Obese children are more susceptible to respiratory diseases

Obese children have fat accumulation on their chest walls, which restricts chest expansion, reduces compliance, and limits diaphragm movement, affecting lung ventilation function, reducing respiratory resistance, and making them susceptible to respiratory diseases.

3. Obese children are prone to fatty liver

The incidence of fatty liver in severely obese children is as high as 80%. Childhood obesity is an important risk factor for inducing fatty liver. Hypertension and high blood lipids are danger signals for the development of fatty liver in obese children.

4. Obese children are more susceptible to digestive system diseases

The prevalence of digestive system diseases in obese children is 15%, which is significantly higher than that in normal children (4%).

5. Obese children have low immune function

Obese children have low immune function, especially significantly reduced cell activity, making them susceptible to infectious diseases.

6. Obese children have hyperinsulinemia

Obese children generally have hyperinsulinemia. In order to maintain the needs of sugar metabolism, they are forced to secrete large amounts of insulin for a long time, which leads to failure of pancreatic secretion function and causes diabetes.

I hope that parents can pay more attention to these common sense issues and not assume that children can eat whatever they want. If you do not establish scientific eating habits for them, then if your children become obese, the impact on their bodies will be relatively large. Therefore, parents can pay more attention to this aspect and urge their children to exercise more and lose weight.