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The treatment of childhood obesity is not an easy task, either for medical or family or for children and today the treatment is based on changing lifestyles, which involves the alteration of their eating habits and physical.

The older the child, the harder it is to practice these changes, but not impossible. In the latest research on overweight in childhood, among other things, it was found that 8% of Spanish children come to school without breakfast.

The cornerstones of obesity treatment
The method used to treat childhood obesity is largely based on the combination of a limited diet with increased physical activity, nutrition education and behavior change. But that will only be effective if the child has the support and encouragement of his family. The child behavior therapy begins with learning self-control.

For the diet to take effect it is necessary that the child receives social stimuli and reinforcement through positive messages, so that he can improve self-esteem and feel more confident. In other words, the initial work is based in particular on combating anxiety and depression, feelings that can lead to increased weight of a child.

It is important to know the feeding habits and behavior of the child and family. Knowing what to eat, a meal interval to another, the exercise they perform, as well as leisure habits. From that you can better identify what causes child obesity. Changing habits through behavioral therapy is an essential component in treating overweight children.

Involvement of parents by age of child
When the child is under 5 years old, are the parents who must lead the treatment, ie answer the child’s all that matters to therapy. From 5 to 9 years, children have more autonomy in treatment, although surveillance is necessary and the responsibility of parents. Only from 9 or 10 years is that the child will have more responsibility and can respond with almost complete freedom to treatment.

Physical exercises
Physical activities should be applied parallel to the diet. Initially, an activity more attractive look and is more in keeping with the interests and capabilities of the child. We begin with gentle movements to which the child grows gradually adapting. If ordering heavy exercise at first the child may be frightened, tired, and ultimately reject it.

Exercise should be gentle at first, but developed continuously, daily, and make it fun and interesting. And it is important for the child to practice and share it with 2 or 3 people at most.

Important tips on childhood obesity
- At the same time as making physical activity a child’s life should be reduced by the time he devotes to television or other sedentary activities.

- It has been shown that the use of drugs in the treatment of childhood obesity is not entirely effective.

- The earlier you detect the problem of overweight in children and treated, the better the result.

- The treatment will only be effective if the child has the support and encouragement of his family

- It is easier to change the behavior of children from their parents, but if you can get the benefit of all.

- The treatment is not processed equally to all children. You must consider the character, disposition, interests and abilities of each child. Every child is a different world and must be treated equally.

Detection of overweight is a simple task, just take a look periodically on the scale and be attentive to what is seen as normal weight for age, height or physique. The problem arises when this becomes habitual or overweight tends to increase without noticeable the possibility of reversing the situation naturally. That’s when the family must take action on the matter and referred to a specialist.

With the slightest suspicion that any metabolic complication may arise should see a doctor or dietitian. In any case, the practitioner must assess the overall lifestyle of the child, his pace and level of physical activity and eating behavior that follows. But you must also learn about how to cook, the type of food, the amounts used to eat the child, order in meals (breakfast, lunch, snacks) and schedules.

Although this information is essential, not is the only or even the most important thing to identify: childhood obesity is the result of a complex equation involving the genetic, environmental, socioeconomic and certainly psychological. This is part of family tradition and relationship that keeps the child (including parents) with food. It is imperative, therefore, the parent company in the dietary consultation to resolve any doubts that the child has the questions you might ask your dietitian or doctor regarding your diet. (more…)

In theory, prevention and treatment of childhood obesity is quite simple. If you consume fewer calories than expended, weight loss, on the contrary, if you consume more calories than you need, is increased. But in practice, making the scale needle move a few inches to the left becomes much more complicated.

In developed countries there has been a change in eating habits due to the overabundance of high calorie foods and attractants. In addition, the lifestyle has changed dramatically and now are preferred sedentary recreational activities, and only during exercise. This makes it very difficult to lose weight.

The childhood obesity is a serious disease, considered a top priority in public health. The problem is that it is very clear what is the best way to approach treatment. The prevention and treatment strategies that exist today, are mainly focused on school or family.

Healthy education in school
based prevention programs in schools are aimed at all students, not just those children with obesity problems. It aims to promote healthy eating and fun physical activity among children.

These projects include practical demonstrations of the principles taught. It changes the composition of school meals, reducing fat and increasing fruit and vegetable servings. Also, develop action plans to increase time spent in physical activities during the school day.

But, of course, the success of such initiatives depends greatly on the enthusiasm of teachers and their training in the principles and practices of a healthy lifestyle.

The family health center
there other programs that focus on the family unit, on the basis that unless you encourage all the family to develop healthy habits is very difficult for children to maintain the learned in the school curriculum.

Most of these studies has, directly or indirectly, with the collaboration of medical personnel or social workers. Its aim is to change the entire family to ensure the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle long term, even after completing the program.

Problems of existing approaches
The results obtained so far, as a rule, programs for school-based intervention have failed to reduce the high rate of childhood obesity. Meanwhile, studies of family therapy achieved favorable changes in weight loss long term, but only in highly motivated people.

Possibly the reason for these modest results lies in the ineffectiveness of the recommendations, both dietary and physical activity on, as indicated in these programs.

The increase in sedentary activities like television, video games and computers, lack of urban and suburban spaces that encourage lead active lifestyles, the greater tendency to eat out, and the fact that rations seem more abundant other reasons for the limited success of these programs.

Even so, it is considered worthwhile to conduct studies of this type. Future research may be based on a combination of stimuli in school and at home, with a broader approach to healthy lifestyle.

Greetings and Welcome. Parenting apart from giving me the joy and the biggest thrill of my life, also shot in my many fears and concerns regarding the safety of my child. Do to prevent any accident or illness, which must be skills when dealing with a problem or emergency care in the kitchen, in the areas of the house on the street, their education, form relationships, health among many others.

So how do to pass that then may affect habits in early life and adulthood. Although he never suffered obesity, but I was very close, it is currently overweight and fought against and I begin to win the battle when I began to understand that obesity was as impacted my way of eating to increase my fat, which were the food could become fat or not.

This is the main reason for creating and writing this blog, spread the knowledge gained from experience and I’ve gained and help the reader to take the first steps to treat and / or prevent childhood obesity.

How to act when a mother, parent or guardian of a child or acquaintance who suffers or may suffer from childhood obesity, how to treat a child or teenager living with this disease so hard, in my view the planet’s most cruel disease. If they pass on to our children our habits and styles, how to change and avoid complications in the future for them.

EnKid the study reveals more than 25% of Spanish children and young people are overweight, and 13.9% of children between 2 and 24 is obese. The type of nutrition and physical inactivity result of a series of social situations, they appear as fundamental causes of a situation that is hopeless.

EnKid the study reveals more than 25% of Spanish children and young people are overweight, and 13.9% of children between 2 and 24 is obese. The alarm rang for quite some time, but it intensifies each time new data showing a dramatic increase in the numbers of obesity in children and adolescents. The type of nutrition and physical inactivity result of a series of social situations, they appear as fundamental causes of a situation that is hopeless …

Doctor Jiménez López, this is a fact: we have moved from the beautiful babies and grandparents robust to three generations of obese. The figures speak … How have we come to this? (more…)

The childhood obesity is a problem that affects many people today, and is currently a lack of activity and poor diet cause children to be affected by a disease that once only associated with higher. It is important to react and take action on the matter to stop this evil.

Obesity is not a hopeless case, since changing the habits of life is a good solution to combat it. Childhood is the stage of our life in which we formed for the future. Many of the experiences of children will mark our adult life, so it is important that we control some aspects in time and avoid that a child will develop obesity accompany you for life. It simply serves to adapt the habits and lead them to a healthier life.

As we know, the basis of good health is the practice of sport , it is one of the best ways to maintain a good weight and improve health. In the case of children, we must strive to carry out at least 60 minutes daily of activity sports. To achieve this it is important to take some action. It is important that we instill in our children a love of sport and we relay the benefits that their practice is going to bring. (more…)

We know that childhood obesity is one of the greatest evils of our time in developed societies, and lots of news in our blog talk about the problems that obesity brings to families, especially children. Thao is a prevention program childhood obesity designed to raise awareness among families about the importance of a healthy life.

Thao is a 4-year taking place in the field of Spanish municipalities, with stocks continuing to excite and mobilize all citizens to a healthy lifestyle, following the trail, quite successful, a similar program out in France. The main objectives of the Thao are:

Promote healthy eating habits, educating and familiarizing children through play.
Stimulate children’s physical activity habits, not just sports, but also of active and playful and social participation.
In addition, these objectives do not remain in the theory, since it also intends to conduct an annual evaluation of the results of these actions. (more…)

Breakfast is key in preventing obesity in children. For this reason, the Ministry of Health has decided to replace the advertising campaign! Wake up, eat breakfast, eat healthy and move

It aims to promote healthy eating habits from childhood and to this end, the choice for breakfast, as all experts agree on the importance of the first meal of the day in the field of prevention.

6.2% of children and young people usually skip breakfast and only 7.5% of children take a balanced breakfast consisting of milk, fruit or juice and carbohydrates.

Experts agree on the importance of the first meal of the day to prevent childhood obesity. 8.5% of the Spanish from 2 to 17 were obese and 18.2% are overweight.

The campaign’s target audience is the entire general population, especially young people under 13, parents and education professionals, responsible for all of good nutrition.

Preventing childhood obesity: Reasons for “weight”

8.5% of the Spanish from 2 to 17 were obese and 18.2% are overweight. (more…)

39 percent of Czechs preschools do not apply the rules of a healthy and balanced diet and does not motivate children to exercise. This is the sad result of a survey conducted by the Czech School Inspection.
As a result, increases sharply obesity in primary pupils, says Nikola Kristek, project coordinator Sano ABC aims to instill in younger healthy lifestyle.

“The statistics on obesity and overweight children are alarming. One in five children Czechs between 10 and 15 years are overweight and their number is increasing. The expertise on healthy habits for the prevention appeal begins already in preschools ” , stressed Kristek.
The project grew out of ABC Sano cooperation between nutrition and exercise experts, psychologists and educators of child care. It is based on four pillars: appropriate exercise, healthy eating, stress protection and coexistence and respect for the environment.

The program consists of weekly blocks. Children learn to master them in different situations. At the same time they acquire the basics for a healthy and balanced diet, says Nikola Kristek.
“We started the concept of the food pyramid. Thanks to this simple chart, children learn that there are no bad foods, but depends on the quantity. If a child wants to eat candy, we say, okay, but try the other foods you eat that day are healthy. In our experience, children of four or five years are able to understand the concept and adapt to it.” (more…)

Today, the society in which we live we have plenty of food, the main consequence of radiation that are supercharged (if we spent a couple of days without eating just would notice our bodies, insurance). Who else should take care of food are small, since the kids are too many calories.

The lifestyle that we have implemented makes children spend the day eating and, even worse, not only do so without restraint, but also do so in abundance, with bad habits and taking too many calories. No doubt the bad habits that children are getting used today makes it promotes childhood obesity.

Leading a sedentary life is another factor that binds with the higher intake of calories among children. One of the best ways to safeguard the health and infant feeding is to eliminate the saturated fat in the diet of children and promote healthy diet: fruits, vegetables, instead of buns, cakes, sweets or fast food.

Obesity is a problem in childhood (and in the adult, of course), which can produce both psychological and physical disorders, to heart problems. Thus, diseases such as hypertension or diabetes are more ballots to occur if care is not calorie intake.

Thus, we can see that now eats too much, much more than what our body needs. Sometimes we give children the best food, and therefore force them to eat, although we are not aware that they can be supercharged. It is difficult to establish a balanced diet as it is structured society, but you must maintain the health of children based on balanced diets. Win them and we all win.