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Summer vacation "Wisdom Eats Wisdom Movement"
Keep the "mythical beast" away from obesity
During the summer vacation, many "mythical beasts" are happy to eat snacks while watching TV at home, and they will gain a few pounds if they are not careful. Summer vacation is a high incidence period of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents, and how to let children spend a healthy and happy summer vacation and prevent overweight and obesity should become a concern of parents and society.
Health hazards of obesity in children
Childhood obesity is a chronic metabolic disease in which excessive accumulation of body fat endangers health, and the specific harms are as follows:
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Affect bone development, easy to cause joint, bone, muscle damage;
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Children whose exercise capacity is affected, resulting in lung capacity, endurance, explosiveness, exercise speed, flexibility, etc., which are significantly lower than those of normal weight;
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Cause some psychological problems, such as introversion, timidity, lack of self-confidence, emotional instability, etc.;
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Affects children's reproductive and endocrine systems, causing them to develop early puberty, and in severe cases, it may also lead to precocious puberty;
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It may also affect a child's brain and mental development, and the higher the degree of obesity, the greater the possible impact on cognition and intelligence.
In conclusion, obesity can cause damage to many systems and organs, which in turn leads to chronic diseases at a young age, such as hypertension, impaired glucose tolerance, dyslipidemia, etc.
It is also very important that obesity in childhood and adolescence will continue to adulthood, including obese body shape, obesity-causing lifestyle, as well as high blood lipid levels, hypertension and high blood sugar levels, and metabolic abnormalities in obese children and adolescents, which can continue to adulthood, and obesity in adulthood will interact with chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, exacerbating the occurrence and development of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, thereby affecting the health, life expectancy and quality of life of a lifetime. Therefore, children and adolescents need to control their weight to prevent the occurrence and development of obesity.
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Contributed by Gong Weiyan, Institute of Nutrition, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention