Every parent needs to help their children in the fight against unhealthy weight

Landscape designing is something that has always been on my mind. Seeing that Matthew needed a better place to play from so that we could avoid any weight problems that seemed to be developing in his older brother Marcus, I searched the web for a landscape design that would suit our compound as well as add beauty to it. My course of action was given a bigger drive after reading an article about obesity among children. Here it is and I can only hope that it causes you to do something healthy for your child. There has been a steady increase in childhood obesity in the United States and it continues to baffle and confound professionals of every stripe. It certainly doesn’t help that large amounts of high fructose corn syrup are found in pretty much everything sold in the United States. But that can keep for another time. Obese children sometimes seem like they’ve never had an honest chance at life and this feels like a sad testimony about our culture. These kids are already suffering the numerous consequences from arthritis and constant joint and back pain to Type II diabetes and the worst verbal treatment by their class peers. This is a sad state of affairs and we’ll explore it further in this article. It seems that just about all physical areas of the human body are severely stressed by obesity. When it comes to the respiratory system, obese children are prone to potentially dangerous obstructive sleep apnea due to being overweight. If a child is obese then they may also have problems with normal breathing. Asthma can be developed if a child or young adult is overweight. If you have a problem with your normal breathing process, it may also be referred to as an exercise intolerance. Everyone has seen that obese people always seem to have trouble breathing. This is a natural response because the body is having to work harder. This merely sets the stage for increased stress on the entire cardiovascular system, as well. Worldwide medical research has confirmed that obstructive sleep apnea is more common in obese children. This particular condition is especially dangerous because it causes the child’s airway to become blocked while he or she is sleeping. Kids who are overweight and obese are more likely to develop snoring problems but that’s a deceiving piece of data, according to researchers. The reason for this snoring is sometimes OSA, obstructive sleep apnea. It is possible that having an adenotonsillectomy will help children and teens who are obese deal with this problem. Science is still trying to puzzle out whether or not early onset obesity has a direct relationship with early onset puberty. However, there’s a particular amount of common sense to be had in looking at what we know. For example, we already know that obese kids and teens see puberty set in earlier and grow faster than other kids. This still, though, requires a clearer determination of causality than currently exists. While this is obviously not a really serious threat to the health of obesity related conditions there are definitely issues that can be related to the early onset of puberty. These children need to lose this weight so we think that it is a good idea for them to have an emergency plan of action. Of course we realize there are millions of unique situations with these children. Although this situation has avoided being reversed, it is very serious. Seeing what danger Marcus was in and making sure that Matthew does not get into it, I decided to divert the money I was going to use to buy TV stands for their room television sets to buying groceries. I knew that this was going to hurt them but it would be the start of them eating healthy thus fighting off the unhealthy weight. Shopping for a Home Laser Hair Remover | Lamp Shades and Self Esteem | Breast Enlargement with Breast Actives - The Affordable Option Tags: children, landscape design, Obesity, TV stands, weight loss This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 at 9:42 pm and is filed under Children's Health, Cholesterol, Food, Obesity. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.