When a child grows too fat, he or she may have the tendency to develop a lower self esteem since being too big them prone to humiliation and mockery. This will make your child uninterested in going out and mingle with other kids of their age and most of all lacking interest to go to school.

Helping your child cope with this kind of problem at times is not that easy because they maybe are too shy to tell that their problem is their weight. You can sit down together and talk on what is needed for him to do in order to solve his problem. This is a very serious issue and it doesn’t have to wait until your child may become the subject of jokes and be a laughing stock of everybody.

Obesity-meaning
Obesity means having excessive fat in the body. It shows physically on the child whether he or she is obese or not. Being more than the twenty percent of the body’s natural weight is the obvious indication that a child or person is obese. Obesity only means being too fat.

Symptoms of Obesity

• Rapid increase in weight
• Increase in body mass index – BMI is the calculated number of the person’s weight and height. This indicates the real and accurate summation of the body’s fatness to determine if his health is at risk or not.
• Increased abdominal girth

• Heredity- being obese can be inherited to a child. It always runs with the family.
• Lifestyle or family influence- these includes having a good time always with the family such enjoying life through shopping, cooking, eating, leisure and exercise can be of a very big factor contributing to a child’s obese situation. The child becomes too fat because nothing to worry about and no problems to solve about making life too easy.
• Sleeping too much will also contribute to having excess weight.

Treating Obesity

• Consuming a large amount of dates is good for obese people since it is high in fiber but very low in fat. It has a large amount of vitamins and minerals
• Eating apple can help in reducing fats because it is rich in pectin that helps burn fat.
• Asparagus is rich in asparagines that also burn down fats in the kidneys.
• Beetroot washes away fats cells and choline clears away fats in the kidney, liver and gall bladder. It is also rich in iron.
• The sulfur and iron in cabbage irradiates fats from gastro intestinal parts of the stomach.
• Beta carotene in carrots helps keep the body metabolism of an obese active.
• Fats in the body are being liquefied by eating citrus fruits.
• Cranberries and other diuretic drinks helps discharge the fats in the body.
• Eggplant helps in controlling appetite by creating glandular hormonal reactions.
• Fatty tissues are being break down by enzymes and vitamin A in eating parsley.
• Lecithin helps control fats in the body
• The diuretic properties of tomato and vitamin c helps speeds up the metabolic processes of the body
• Vitamin A and C that the water melon has helps break down fat deposits in the body.
• Fruits juices helps burn down fats especially an apple cider vinegar.
• Discipline from eating fatty foods and junk foods and have regular exercise to keep body from accumulating more fats. Don’t be a couch potato but instead make your body move by doing some activities like gardening instead of watching TV.

What organs affected by obesity?

• Heart, kidneys, thyroid glands and girls reproductive organs.
• A good moral value should be instilled into a child who is not obese because he may have the chance to hurt someone who suffers from obesity by making an obese child a center of laughter and fun to others. A normal child may initiate such behavior and is very embarrassing for the other child. It may contribute an attitude problem to the one who suffers from obesity. He may suffer from low self esteem and lack of self confidence. The painful scars of being humiliated by others is immeasurable and cannot be pulled back to erase such memory of being hurt. It may lead to cruelty and will even more become gruesome to the one who is being mocked when he retaliates and do such measures to fight back. Parents should encourage their children to be more sensitive and thoughtful to the feelings of others.

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