Childhood obesity

Nowadays, it is needless to say that childhood obesity is a worrying issue for European countries. Overall, causes are not only behavioural; but also psychological. Therefore the root of the problem has to be addressed, so that during childhood: it should be nipped in the bud!

First of all, the behaviour of parents towards their children has to change. For example, giving pills such as amphetamines based preparations in a diet purpose is dangerous for children owing to the fact that they become addicted to this 'medicine'. Thus if they stop taking it, they return again to overweight. This is due to the fact that people doesn't know that all children have puppy fat. To sum up parents have to be more careful. They would propose exercise and an appropriate diet instead of medicine in order to tackle childhood obesity.

However the problem comes by the children together, such as the jibs or bullying for fat children. One way to fix this is to implement prevention measures in school about this problem. Obese children suffer from social isolation and a lot of phuysical consequences like diabetes, digestion problem, heart disease and so on. Therefore obesity is a disease and children should be aware of this.

All in all, I think that the moot point is the lack of prevention for children and parents about childhood obesity i.e. advertising to practice more sports.

Author: Arnaud Lessard (NOT the child in the picture)