How to control childhood obesity

Everyone knows that although chubby children look cute when they are young, sometimes, if the body is too fat, it will affect the child's physical health. Especially for children's bones, if they are overweight, it can easily lead to bone deformities. So parents need to know how to control children's weight. So, how to control childhood obesity?

1. Control your diet and pay attention to your diet. It should mainly consist of nutritious, low-oil, low-fat and low-calorie foods. In addition to three meals a day, you also need to eat more vegetables and fruits.

2 Strengthen physical exercise. The best way to control weight is physical exercise. The key is to persist, run more, play football, and play basketball.

3 Parents should let their children move more and do more, let them complete some housework independently, do not let the children be carried around, and pay attention to the small details of activities in daily life.

4 When you have time, spend more time with your children outdoors, playing small games and having fun together. This can help control your children's weight and enhance the family atmosphere.

5 Parents should set a good example, do not ridicule the child, do not let him feel inferior, give him more encouragement, start with himself, you can go for a walk after dinner, go to the square to do the following fitness equipment.

A child's weight is under the control of his parents and himself. By strengthening physical exercise and controlling his eating habits, he can effectively control and lose weight.

At present, the obesity problem among teenagers in my country is becoming increasingly serious, but there is actually no unified standard for determining obesity. There are generally two types of evaluation criteria:

1. Standard weight method: The standard weight method for the Asia-Pacific region published by WHO: standard weight (kg) = height (cm) -

105. If the actual weight is 10% higher than the standard weight, it is considered overweight; if it is between 20% and 29%, it is considered mild obesity; if it is between 30% and 49%, it is considered moderate obesity; and if it is higher than 50%, it is considered severe obesity.

2. Body mass weight method: The method for measuring overweight and obesity adopted by the World Health Organization in 1997: body mass index method (BMI).

BMI = weight (kg) divided by height (m) squared. The world standard is that a BMI of 18.5-24.9 is considered normal, and a BMI greater than 25 is considered overweight.

An MBI greater than 30 is considered obese. my country has issued two sets of data standards based on its actual national conditions.

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