04 Sep Obesity/Weight Management For Healthy Children
With 1 in 4 children struggle to manage a healthy weight. Obesity has been shown to have a substantial negative effect on longevity, reducing life expectancy by up to 20 years. So serious are the potential repercussions for children that a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2005 determined that this generation of children may be the first that do not outlive their parents.
Risk Factors & Reasons for Childhood Obesity include:
- ✅ High energy food intake and lack of physical activity
- ✅ Dysbiosis (imbalance of gut bacteria) in infanthood (may be a result of diet or antibiotic use)
- ✅ Chronic ear infections (may increase preferences for sweeter and saltier ‘junk’ foods)
- ✅ Childhood stress
- ✅ Overweight parents doubles the risk for overweight children
- ✅ Maternal smoking during pregnancy
- ✅ Gestational Diabetes
- ✅ Nutritional deficiency in pregnancy, especially folic acid and vitamin B12
- ✅ Low birth weight
- ✅ Not breast feeding. Various theories why, but bottle feeding tends to introduce solids earlier.
- ✅ Poor sleep
- ✅ High TV and technology use.
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