‘What Is Obesity’

Preventing Childhood Obesity

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Preventing childhood obesity with a healthy diet

Today in Spain, 24% of children between 10 and 14 are overweight or obese. It is a global epidemic that affects, for now, a billion people worldwide. The reasons are many and often tragic consequences. One of the important causes is the current way of life, which standardizes the taste and smell. This modern evil fought duty, primarily in childhood, school, place of living and health, has the duty to fight against bad habits. This book contains numerous suggestions for activities and answer the following questions: How can exercise the sense of taste and smell on the child? How to exploit in class projects that require the exercise of these senses? How can you manage and create fun experiences “to taste and sniff books? How to create games aimed at refining the olfactory and taste discrimination? It is aimed at professionals in education and health, and parents.

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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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What Is Obesity

Sunday, March 21st, 2010


It is the excessive accumulation of body fat, especially adipose tissue, and that can be perceived by the body weight gain when it reaches 20% over ideal weight for age, height, and sex of the person concerned . To calculate the ideal weight of a child between 2 and 5 years of age, albeit only approximate, multiply the age in years two and eight. Example: to find out how much you weigh, on average, a child of five years, multiply the age (5) by 2 and add 8. Is, 5×2 +8 = 18kg. I insist that this method is not accurate. This is just an illustration. The truth is to consult and consider what they tell the child’s pediatrician.

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