Observe today
The latest release of the student physical health survey report shows that in recent years, the prevalence of childhood obesity in the mainland has been rising at an average annual rate of 12 percent, and the current overweight obesity rate of 7 to 18-year-old boys in Shanghai is 31 percent, and the overweight obesity rate of girls is 18 percent, which has become a very prominent health problem. What are the dangers of excessive obesity? How can I help my child lose weight scientifically? Let's find out.
Near the beginning of the school year, the outpatient volume of obesity MDT (multidisciplinary joint diagnosis and treatment) in the Children's Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University has surged, and it is difficult to find the first. After a holiday of lying flat and eating and drinking, parents found that their children had gained weight at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the physical fitness index was not optimistic.
According to the doctor, childhood obesity onset early, often related to family genetics and other physical factors, after entering the school age to become fatter and fatter, there is another important factor is the general eating too much, eating too well, too little exercise.
For childhood obesity experts believe that the first thing that needs to be changed is the concept of parents, many parents always think that children are still small, chubby means to raise well, and will naturally lose weight when they grow up, but they do not know that childhood obesity if not intervened as soon as possible, it is easy to cause hypertension, diabetes and other diseases, and sex hormone secretion will also lead to problems such as precocious puberty and short stature due to abnormalities.
As the only obesity MDT (multidisciplinary joint diagnosis and treatment) clinic in Shanghai, because the patients who come to the clinic are all children who are judged to be overweight and obese after being screened in the general clinic, it means that the risk of diabetes and metabolic syndrome is extremely high, and parents have more worries about the future of their children.
Different from the general specialist clinic, patients who come to the pediatric obesity MDT (multidisciplinary joint diagnosis and treatment) clinic need to face three doctors, who are from the department of endocrinology, traditional Chinese medicine and nutrition, according to a series of examination results, the three doctors together to determine the cause of the child's obesity, the degree of obesity. For children with complications, drug therapy is given and referral is given at the first time.
For those who do not need drug intervention for the time being, they focus on understanding the dietary structure and eating habits of the child's school and home, formulate a nutrition plan, weight loss program and exercise plan suitable for the individual, and at the same time cooperate with the external treatment method of traditional Chinese medicine to achieve the purpose of conditioning the physique and healthy fat loss on the basis of traditional Chinese medicine treatment.
Doctors stressed that at present, there is no drug suitable for children's weight loss in the world, parents should not trust any weight loss product advertisements, can not abuse health care products and drugs, must go to regular medical institutions for treatment. In addition, weight loss is not an overnight thing, children's compliance is poor, family members should lead by example, balanced diet, and help children develop a healthy lifestyle.