The dangers of obesity in children

Since the material foundation of many families has made a qualitative leap, the phenomenon of childhood obesity is becoming more and more serious. This is mainly because for most families, there is usually only one child, so our parents give all the good and nutritious food to their children. However, what we never expected is that the children become obese because of this, and there are many dangers of obesity in children.

In fact, to a certain extent, the harm of obesity in children is similar to that of obesity in adults. But in reality, many family members do not think so, especially the older generation. They generally think that being fat is a symbol of blessing, and since they only have one precious grandson or granddaughter, it doesn’t matter if the grandson is a little fat. In fact, this idea is completely wrong. So, let’s talk about the dangers of obesity in children.

Obesity affects children, middle-aged adults and the elderly. Currently, childhood obesity is quite common around the world. Many parents mistakenly believe that a child being fat is a sign of health. In fact, this view is largely a prejudice and is somewhat blind. Children have different weight standards at different ages during their normal development process. If they exceed the standard by 10%, they are considered obese. Whether a child is obese or not mainly depends on the parents' awareness of their feeding. Many well-meaning parents often adopt the method of force-feeding, persuading, enticing, or even forcing their children to eat. Many adults also express their love by buying all kinds of delicious foods for their children. Children are also easily tempted by all kinds of delicious foods and develop the habit of eating snacks. It won't be long before they are overnourished and accumulate more and more fat in their bodies, leading to obesity. Childhood obesity can promote the increase in the number of fat cells, making it more likely to become obese in adulthood and greatly increasing the difficulty of losing weight.

Once children become obese, the proportion of fat in the body increases, and the acidic metabolites are not fully excreted and the accumulation increases. Children will often feel tired, sleepy, and unwilling to move. Obesity leads to disorders in water, sugar, and fat metabolism, and hyperinsulinemia, which causes abnormal hunger, manifested as greed and excessive gluttony. This will easily lead to children developing laziness, becoming greedy and sleepy, forming a vicious cycle of getting fatter and fatter and having more and more problems. The fatter they are, the more greedy they are, the lazier they are, and the less willing they are to exercise, the more they lose their childish, innocent, lively and active nature. If children are obese, 90% of them will become obese when they grow up.

Obesity can also cause hyperlipidemia, fatty liver, hypertension, etc. Some children will suffer from sexual development disorders due to obesity. Boys will have hidden testicles, enlarged breasts and other developmental disorders of sexual organs and sexual characteristics; girls will experience precocious puberty or menstrual abnormalities, leading to sexual dysfunction and reproductive impotence in adulthood.

Obesity can also affect the development of children's head shape and cause them to have stupid tendencies. It is also easy to develop X-shaped or O-shaped legs and flat feet. The ability to live independently decreases, the body's resistance decreases, and it is easy to suffer from digestive and respiratory diseases.

Excessive obesity leads to decreased respiratory system function, increased carbon dioxide concentration in the blood, hypoxia of the cerebral cortex, and difficulty for children to concentrate when studying, which affects their intellectual development.

Due to changes in body shape, decreased physical strength and various embarrassing symptoms of obesity, children suffer psychological pressure, develop inferiority complex, become withdrawn and have personality disorders, leading to serious psychological development disorders in children.

Through the above introduction, we know that there are so many harms of childhood obesity. Therefore, our parents should not feed their children so many good foods in the future, because these are often the root cause of children's diseases, and if they are not stopped, it is possible that the children will blame you when they grow up, because at least the life of obese people is very inconvenient.