Childhood Obesity

My Outline:-

Definition of Obesity. Diagnosing Obesity using BMI. Risks and dangers of Obesity. Childhood Obesity. Who should be blamed? Could fining Parents reduce Obesity? Causes of Obesity. What can we do to stop Obesity. References.

What does the word Obesity ?

a term used to describe somebody who is very overweight, with a lot of body fat.

How to diagnose yourself as obese or not ?

Using BMI “Body Mass Index “

Using this Formula :

Compare your BMI Result to these scales

BMI ResultLess than 18.5 Underweight

18.8-24.9 Normal 25-29.9 Overweight30-40 Obese

More than 40 very obese

What are the Risks associated with obesity ?

Dangers of Obesity

Type 2 diabetes. High cholesterol . High blood pressure. Coronary heart disease. Strokes. Cancer (including colon, breast and

endometrial (womb) cancer). Fatty liver.

Sleep apnea: (this is when your breathing patterns are disturbed while you are sleeping, due to excess weight around your chest, neck

and airways).

This is a close up image of a cancer cell

Around 10% of all cancer deaths are related to obesity

And did you know that

And Diabetes caused by Obesity

You are

3 times

more likely to have a Heart

Attack

Childhood Obesity

What is an Obese Child?

An obese child is a child that has a condition in which his/her weight is not normal.

Obesity causes

Low-Self esteem and depression.

Low-Self Esteem

Low self-Esteem; poor self-image (not liking how you look); low confidence;

feelings of isolation.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO):

More than 600 million people , or 13% of the world's adult population, are obese.

The rate more than doubled between 1980 and 2014.

60% of children who are overweight before puberty will remain overweight as adults.

Who should we Blame?

Genetics ? The obese Child ?Parents ?

Parents play an important role in Childhood’s Obesity !

Could fining Parents reduce Childhood obesity ?

Denmark brought in a "fat tax“ on foods containing more than 2.3% saturated fat.

but the inflated prices drove consumers over the border to Germany.

So this policy was cancelled one year later.

Nutella tax

In 2012, France quadrupled the tax on saturated fat-rich palm oil, dubbed the

"Nutella tax" because the popular hazelnut spread contained the ingredient.

In California, the first U.S. city to pass a law taxing sugary drinks, a one-cent-an-ounce tax on fizzy drinks.

The Soft drinks were banned from schools in New South Wales, Australia, in 2007, but this has sometimes been ignored.

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Meanwhile ,families in England and several US states receive warning letters informing

them if the BMI results held in schools show that their children are overweight.

According to the Senator Gilberto Rodriguez Valle'

Politicians in Puerto Rico , a self-governing US territory , who started to debate whether the government should be more involved in the

childhood obesity .

His plans were that

Teachers will be told to look out for students they think are obese .

They would refer those detected to a counselor or to a social worker.

Health department officials would meet parents and decide whether the obesity comes from overeating or a medical condition.

If food was the problem ,

it would be up to parents to set a diet and exercise programs.

with monthly visits by officials to make sure it's being kept up.

After six month the obese child will be examine again if there is no improvement .

Parents would face fines of up to $800.

What causes Obesity ?

Lets go back to a journey from

To our Present

Inactivity:

We eat calories more than the calories we burn. Nowadays there are for example we prefer to

use the elevator instead of stares or we use cars instead of walking or using bicycles.

Diets : Bad Eating habits like high calories diets epically in the night, or skipping a healthy breakfast, and replace it by junk fast food, or drinking fizzy drinks instead of water

•Lack of sleep: this cause disturbances in the body hormones, which increases the appetite. you also may crave to height calories food.

Family history:

If that child comes from a family of overweight people, he or she may be more likely to put on excess weight, especially in an environment where high-calorie food is always available and physical activity isn’t encouraged.

What can we do to stop Obesity ?

We should chose healthy food instead of Junk Food !

Thank you for listening

Refrences:-

http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/hliving/childob2.html

http://medicaldiagnosticlaboratorytesting.co.uk/routine-and-prophylaxis-tests/obesity/

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31417102

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/obe/risks.

http://www.who.int/topics/obesity/en/.