Obesity is a medical condition, not cosmetic. Treat it

Obesity is no longer a cosmetic concern. It is a medical conditionthat leads to diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, gallstones, and other chronic illnesses. Obesity is also a risk factor for a number of cancers.

Causes of childhood obesity

The balance between calorie consumption and energy outflow determines a person's weight. Your children will gain weight if they eat more calories than they burn.  Listed below are some of the causes of childhood obesity.

• Genetics: A child is more likely to develop obesity if one or both parents are obese. Genetics, the mother’s weight and family history can all increase the likelihood of childhood obesity. 
• Overeating: Itleads to weight gain, especially if the diet is high in fat. Weight gain is inevitable if your children regularly eat more calories than they burn. 
• Physical inactivity: Inactive children burn fewer calories than children who are active.With an inactive lifestyle, your children can easily take in more calories every day than they use through exercise and normal daily activities.Having medical problems, such as arthritis, can lead to inactivity, which contributes to weight gain.
• Medications: Unfortunately, weight gain is a common side effect of many medications. Medications associated with weight gain include diabetes medications, certain antidepressants, anticonvulsants and antipsychotics. These drugs may increase appetite, reduce metabolism or even alter the body’s ability to burn fat.
• Psychological factors: For some children, emotions influence eating habits. Many children eat excessively in response to emotions such as boredom, sadness, stress or anger.
• Lack of sleep: Not getting enough sleep or getting too much sleep can cause changes in hormones that increase your child’s appetite. Your child may also crave foods high in calories and carbohydrates, which can contribute to weight gain.
• Hormones: Hunger and uncontrollable eating are not just triggered by greed or lack of willpower. Hunger is controlled by hormonesthat are responsible for cravings. Many obese children have impaired function of these hormones, which alters their eating behaviour and causes a strong physiological drive to eat more.

Prevention

You can always guide your children and help them to take steps in order to prevent unhealthy weight gain and related health problems.Starting healthy dietary and exercise habits may be the most valuable prevention against obesity and related diseases.Your child needs to get 150 to 300 minutes of moderate-intensity activity a week to prevent weight gain. You can also encourage your children to a fast walk and join swimming classes. If children develop a taste for healthy foods instead of processed junk foods, it helps them maintain normal weight throughout their life.

Conclusion

Maintaining your ideal body weight is a balancing act between food intake and calories needed by the body for energy. You are what you eat. The kinds and amounts of food you eat affect your ability to maintain your ideal weight and to lose weight.All too often, obesity prompts a determined diet in the hopes of reaching the ideal body weight. It is not necessary to achieve an ideal weight to derive health benefits from obesity treatment. The treatment goal should be to attain and uphold a healthier weight.The emphasis of treatment should be to obligate to the process of lifelong healthy living, including eating more wisely and increasing physical activity.

Obesity in children is treated effectively with homeopathy. Dr Batra’s clinic provides homeopathic medicines in order to upsurge the child’s uptake without any side effects. The doctors closely evaluate the child’s lifestyle, temperament, behaviour and eating habits. Homeopathy helps to effectively treat physical and emotional complications that may arise due to childhood obesity.