Even if you have the idea that while your little one is hungry for him to eat, lest he stop eating one day just like the son of… think about health.
So many alarms of overweight and childhood obesity with subsequent health problems are not the episodes of a television series, it happens in real life, and what could be worse than seeing a child who is losing health due to an unbalanced diet and nutritionally deficient talking ?. It is not about eating quantity, but quality for the body.
We get this hard because despite so much promoting healthy eating, physical activity, etc., we continue to see clear examples that the healthy habits that a developing child needs are not met. Let's not think more than we can leave it for tomorrow, that tomorrow takes a long time to arrive and it may be late.
One of the latest studies we read about it is the one published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, where they warn that Overweight or obese children who are around 8 years of age (those who have been studied) are seven times more likely to suffer from heart problems after 15 years of age. Hypertension, high cholesterol levels, diabetes ... can you imagine your child with such serious health problems at such an early age and because of "carelessness"? But it seems to be that, unlike what happens with adults, since in several studies it is reflected that abdominal fat is responsible for metabolic and molecular changes in the body, inflaming the walls of blood vessels and accelerating arteriosclerosis or resistance Insulin among other problems, it is not the waist measurement that shows the highest cardiac risk in children and adolescents, but the body mass index (BMI).
Although our children are still smaller than those reflected in this study, we remember that healthy habits, the sooner they are established in a better individual, if your child feeds in a balanced way and has healthy living habits, with physical activity, good rest and little sedentary, will be what in the future keep.
Not only will possible pathologies be avoided in adolescence, those that arrive in old age will surely be delayed longer and can enjoy life, despite work, with health.
Dr. Sarah P. Garnett of the Westmead Children's Hospital in Australia defines it this way: "The consequences of childhood obesity are devastating."
