According to WHO, although soaring rates of obesity in the US have attracted most attention, the situation in Europe is equally dire. Today the problem of obesity is not limited to US & Europe only, it is a global problem today. WHO predicts, if current trends continue a tenth of Europe’s children will be obese by 2010, twice the proportion a decade ago. And if no action is taken almost 150 million Europeans across all ages will be obese by 2010, compared with 125 million in 2002.
The immediate target is to stop the increase of obesity in children. Once obese, it is difficult to reverse and almost invariably progresses to diabetes. Government may be encouraged to tackle obesity on four fronts :
(a) Improving exercise & diet.
(b) Especially in schools, making healthy foods more available
(c) Regulating the advertisement of junk foods for kids in the electronic media.
(d) and counseling people against over eating.
Meanwhile British researcher said good health not only benefits the individual but also a nation’s economy. The researcher studied the link between health & wealth in economically well-off countries, finding healthier people were more productive, earned more, and spent more time in the work force.
(Extract from Times of India dated 15th Nov 06.)
Addition by the blog owner : Why should we wait for Government to tackle your or your child's health ? Start by yourself from today. You know "Charity begins at home". Try to correct the wrong food habits and life style of your child to control his obesity and help him take a turn to a right direction :
§ STOP giving Soft drinksyour to your as these soft drinks are nothing but poison.
§ DON'T make them overeating. To my experience, most of the parents of today having only one child, they love their child by feeding too much unnecessary.
§ STOP giving junk foods like pizza, burger, maggi, noodles etc to name few.
§ GIVE them fresh fruits instead of junk foods. Avoid too much of sweets.
§ Most of the children today don’t eat vegetable, which is again not good for health because vegetables supply many essential nutrients for our body. Try to change the habit and give them Vegetables..
§ Don’t go for foods just for tastes, go for nutritional values.
§ Avoid eating out as far as possible.
§ Now come to life style. Nowadays most of the children are in the habit of doing finger exercise with the remote control of the TV or key board of the PC. Change this to free hand exercise ( with expert's guidance) or Yoga or atleast some sports activity on the play ground or club.
§ Do not allow children to sit on TV or Computer hours together. This habit harms children maximum because they are sitting at home idle when they should be at play ground.
This is how the middle class or village children are generally not Obese because their parents can't afford to give junk foods to their children and forced to eat vegetables, and other foods which is better than the junk foods.
The immediate target is to stop the increase of obesity in children. Once obese, it is difficult to reverse and almost invariably progresses to diabetes. Government may be encouraged to tackle obesity on four fronts :
(a) Improving exercise & diet.
(b) Especially in schools, making healthy foods more available
(c) Regulating the advertisement of junk foods for kids in the electronic media.
(d) and counseling people against over eating.
Meanwhile British researcher said good health not only benefits the individual but also a nation’s economy. The researcher studied the link between health & wealth in economically well-off countries, finding healthier people were more productive, earned more, and spent more time in the work force.
(Extract from Times of India dated 15th Nov 06.)
Addition by the blog owner : Why should we wait for Government to tackle your or your child's health ? Start by yourself from today. You know "Charity begins at home". Try to correct the wrong food habits and life style of your child to control his obesity and help him take a turn to a right direction :
§ STOP giving Soft drinksyour to your as these soft drinks are nothing but poison.
§ DON'T make them overeating. To my experience, most of the parents of today having only one child, they love their child by feeding too much unnecessary.
§ STOP giving junk foods like pizza, burger, maggi, noodles etc to name few.
§ GIVE them fresh fruits instead of junk foods. Avoid too much of sweets.
§ Most of the children today don’t eat vegetable, which is again not good for health because vegetables supply many essential nutrients for our body. Try to change the habit and give them Vegetables..
§ Don’t go for foods just for tastes, go for nutritional values.
§ Avoid eating out as far as possible.
§ Now come to life style. Nowadays most of the children are in the habit of doing finger exercise with the remote control of the TV or key board of the PC. Change this to free hand exercise ( with expert's guidance) or Yoga or atleast some sports activity on the play ground or club.
§ Do not allow children to sit on TV or Computer hours together. This habit harms children maximum because they are sitting at home idle when they should be at play ground.
This is how the middle class or village children are generally not Obese because their parents can't afford to give junk foods to their children and forced to eat vegetables, and other foods which is better than the junk foods.
2 comments:
Obese Children are becoming an epidemic! Where are the parents?
Thanks for visiting my site.
I am talking about present day children. The parents may not necessarily be Obese. If parents are obese, they can be alert themselves but for children, parents have to take care. Today children are more prone to obesity than elders due to wrong food habits and life style.
good luck,
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