‘Childhood Obesity’

Mexico Ranks Second in Worldwide Obesity

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Today, Mexico ranks second in worldwide obesity and first in per capital soft drink consumption, a clear sign that the dietary habits of the population have been deteriorating over time.

Food is about education and manners, so it’s important to instill good eating habits in children since they are small, so that when they grow up, are not prone to obesity. But what exactly is obesity and why it attacks children?

Obesity is an excessive accumulation of body fat and is noted when the child’s weight exceeds 20% of their ideal weight. That is, if your ideal weight is 40 kilos, is considered obese if instead weighs 48 kilos and up. There is an error that many mothers make: confuse good food with fat. The trouble is that this error happens more often than we think.

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Eat a Child

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

What and how much to eat a child
There is no exact amount of food they should eat a child. Every child is a different world, and their wants and needs are different. Because of this, it is the child who can say with accuracy how much you eat. And you can not force him to eat more. Not for good or for bad. Normally, children eat more than girls, but in a matter of appetite can not be generalized.

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Psychological Treatment Against Childhood Obesity

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Betting psychological treatment against childhood obesity, which affects 30% of children. Pediatricians are betting on a psychological approach of overweight and obesity among children, affecting 30 percent of Spanish children and Aragon, a serious problem that has doubled in recent years have failed to institutional strategies.

So what the professor said today July Ardura, chairman of the Scientific Committee of 58 Congress of the National Pediatrics Association (AEP), today opened in Zaragoza, which analyzed the latest pediatric, with the assistance of almost 2,000 professionals , of which 1039 will present their communications. Child and youth obesity is one of the central issues to be addressed at this meeting and experiencing a steady increase in recent years have happened in Spain the prevalence of 13 to 30 percent, stressed at a press conference Ardura, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Valladolid.

Apart from being considered as an “epidemic” this situation “grave” and “great alarm” is associated diseases such as metabolic syndrome, which limit the life of those who suffer chronic disease and pose great demand for care and economic resources, explained.

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Overweight Children

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010


For many families, having a child fat, plump, and full of folds is quite an achievement, a sign that the child is well, strong and full of health. But experts in child nutrition do not think like. And more will they say that these families are very wrong. What matters is not the child is fat or thin. What matters is that the child is healthy. And that’s where we wanted to reach. At the last National Day on Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Factors, held in Madrid, Spain, was diagnosed with childhood obesity as an emerging disease. Both in Europe and the United States since the nineties until today, the incidence of childhood obesity has doubled. Spain has become the fourth European Union country with the highest number of overweight children, presenting a picture of obesity in 16.1% among children 6 to 12 years, surpassed only by data from Italy , Malta and Greece. An alarming fact in a society that is in its “curriculum” one of the best diets alimentares the world: the Mediterranean diet, and in which only five years ago showed only 5% of obese children.

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