Almost one in two of our kids are either obese or overweight.
• The number of obese kids and teenagers has tripled or quadrupled in the past four decades.
• African-American and Mexican-American kids are at even higher danger.
How do I know if my kid is obese?
Weight is only one of many personal features that identify kids from one another. Parents naturally want their kid to be as perfect as possible, but interpreting “perfect” can be a challenge especially when it comes to bodily proportions and shape. Both are affected by genes, environment, exercising, and nutrition. Society’s focus on slimness disregards the reality that kids develop at different rates and have different system components, sizes, and shapes from their siblings and friends.
It is unlikely that an individual kid is at danger for Obesity without the whole close relatives being at danger as well. Both genes and environment contribute to obese and are shared by the whole close relatives. Family member’s lifestyle questions (at left) can help you evaluate your loved one’s danger.
Obese kids do face additional significances for mental and actual wellness. Yet it is very important that bodyweight and food do not become an ug-of-war between mother or father and kid.
As a mother or father you can Obese kid’s development using special maps that are available on the Internet (see resource list, page 4) and in many medical care configurations (physician/pediatrician’s offices, WIC treatment centers, public wellness departments). Children develop in bursts, but the general goal is to have the kid’s development form a curve over time.
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