Source: Mom's Handbook (ID: jqfans)
Author: Morning Mom
As the saying goes: Don't lose weight in April, sad in June!
No, seeing that the weather is getting hotter day by day, the child can only stay at home. Many parents have begun to worry about their children's "weight".
For example, a 10-year-old boy in Hangzhou who was delayed by the epidemic needs to lose 25 kilograms in 3 months when suffering from obesity, otherwise it will affect normal development.
Childhood obesity has become a major problem for many parents.
According to the 2020 Report on the Nutrition and Chronic Disease Status of Chinese Residents:
The rate of overweight obesity in children under 6 years of age has reached 10%, and the rate of overweight obesity among children and adolescents aged 6-17 years is close to 20%.
Moreover, there are sporadic cases of obesity in the news, which is even more worrying.
"One fat destroys all!"
It is said: one white covers a hundred ugly, one fat destroys everything.
Obesity, to a certain extent, affects not only the appearance of children, but also has an important impact on physical development.
Common problems are:
It is easy to get diabetes, dyslipidemia, liver abnormalities and even gallstones, as well as affect bone development.
Moreover, overweight has an indescribable pain for boys: it may lead to stunting of chicks.
Because excessively obese boys accumulate subcutaneous fat, the external genitalia are covered with thick fat, which looks relatively small from the appearance.
In the long run, this development will definitely affect the normal development of the testicles and scrotum, and seriously lead to sexual dysfunction in children in adulthood!
Parents with male babies must be more vigilant about excessive obesity and urge their children to lose weight.
As for how long is the child's "chicken" normal? You may wish to refer to the following figure:
Note: The data in the table is the length of the baby's "chicken" in a calm state.
In addition, regarding childhood obesity, parents must not hold the idea that "white fat is a blessing".
You know, childhood obesity is likely to accompany a lifetime, which is definitely not alarmist.
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed:
88% of obese children remain obese as adults.
This is mainly because childhood obesity is a chronic metabolic disease that increases the risk of chronic diseases in adulthood.
Moreover, compared with the increase in the volume of fat cells in adulthood, obesity in childhood is mostly an increase in the number of fat cells.
Even if you grow up and lose weight, the amount of fat in the body is difficult to reduce, so it is easy to lead to weight loss.
But isn't it a fat life, people have to guard against it!
How to define childhood obesity?
First look at the two children in the picture below, guess which one is overweight and which one is obese?
I believe that many people will subconsciously feel that the boy on the right is a little fatter and more massive in the senses.
In fact, childhood obesity is not simply defined by the naked eye, and more meat is obesity.
It should be comprehensively measured according to factors such as height, weight, age and so on.
Generally speaking, the main measure of obesity in medicine is the body mass index (BMI).
When the BMI value exceeds a certain indicator, it will be defined as "overweight" and "obese".
The BMI has a formula for calculating:
For a simple example, a boy is 10 years old, 1.6 meters tall and weighs 50 kg, then after applying the formula:
BMI = 50÷ (1.6) = 19.53, compared to the table, between overweight and obese, indicating that the boy is a little overweight and not obese.
Similarly, for preschoolers, there are adjustments accordingly:
Parents, you can check the table to see if your baby's weight exceeds the standard
There are thousands of causes of obesity in children
For childhood obesity, parents should not "one size fits all" from the beginning and let the children blindly diet.
Find out the crux of obesity in order to prescribe the right medicine!
In general, the cause of childhood obesity is partly genetic and partly acquired.
But according to experts, obesity and internal and external factors are related, and the impact is more of an acquired factor.
The following factors need to be prevented!
Improper diet
As the saying goes, "the disease comes from the mouth", most of the problems in the child's body are related to diet.
For example, "overeating" is easy to cause obesity, not only children are easy to be recruited, but adults are also difficult to escape their clutches.
You know, the daily energy required by the human body is limited, once it is over, the excess energy will be converted into fat, which will lead to obesity.
And breakfast must not be saved, not only related to the energy of the day, but also to increase the chance of children getting fat!
Therefore, to control weight, the first step is to control the child's mouth and adjust the way of eating reasonably.
Trans fatty acids
Trans fatty acids, where is sacred?
Some parents may be unfamiliar with this name, but you must have bought the following foods containing trans fatty acids for your children.
This type of food contains trans fatty acids, which are much higher in calories than ordinary fatty foods, and the focus is not easy to digest.
It is easy to accumulate in the abdomen, causing childhood obesity!
Not only does it lead to obesity, but trans fatty acids are particularly affected by children aged 3 to 12 years:
Affects intellectual development, resulting in memory loss and dementia in children;
In the long run, it affects children's fertility as they grow up.
It can be seen that this kind of food can be bought as little as possible!
Children may not be able to resist the temptation, but as parents, we must strive in the front line of protecting children!
Electronic screens
You think you can only eat and drink, sit still... Is it easy to make children obese?
Not really
Environmental factors are also an important cause of childhood obesity, such as watching TV, playing mobile phones, watching electronic screens...
Studies have shown that:
Watching TELEVISION is probably the most certain environmental factor for obesity in childhood.
The reason is very simple, children watch TV, usually accompanied by the behavior of eating snacks, while eating while watching, it is easy to control the amount of poor control.
As the cycle goes on, the weight will increase little by little.
Moreover, the tempting snack advertisements broadcast on TV and the food scenes in the play will greatly increase the child's appetite.
In this regard, The advice of the morning mother is to try not to let children under 2 years old watch TV.
Older children, control the time to watch TV every day, but also control within 2 hours, it is best to watch it after the child has finished exercising.
Control your child's weight ≠ lose weight
In the concept of many parents, the most direct way to control the weight of children is to lose weight.
Then say just do it, give your child a diet, don't let snacks, supervise exercise... Everything comes.
At the same time, the child is also "motivated" with words:
"Others call you little chubby, it doesn't matter";
"Fat dead, don't follow me and your dad";
"Fat like this, no one wants to grow up"...
But the problem is that as soon as the child cries and cries out that he is hungry, the parents are distressed, and the cause of weight loss also stops abruptly.
The result is often that 5 pounds are lost, 7 pounds rebound, and no weight reduction is reversed, and there is no effect at all.
After repeated failures, some parents hope to go to children's weight loss camps and let others urge their children to lose weight.
In the concept of morning mothers, weight loss is never equated with weight loss;
It is not easy to put your child in a weight loss camp to exercise, so that he feels that he is "different".
Not to achieve the effect, casually use words such as "fat" and "fat mound" to hit children.
Tell them that weight loss is for good health, not the so-called standards of good looks, white and thin.
In short, reject body anxiety, start with dolls!
Control your weight, keep fit, and start with dolls!
The growth of children is no small matter, and the problem of obesity is not only related to the appearance and posture, but also affects health and development, which cannot be ignored.
As parents, we must not let coddling become harmful, become a sharp blade that hurts the child's body, and change the child's posture, appearance and self-confidence little by little.
From now on, scientific weight loss, exercise with the baby, let the child become more sunny and confident!
Click "Like" and "Watching", may every child not have obesity troubles!
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