Obesity In Children

At various levels, the systematic approach utilized in order to develop mechanisms that would prevent obesity in the early years of child growth is compelling. The relevant rationale developed in order to mitigate this trend is overriding and it is encapsulated within the mainstream preventive mechanisms, including highlights of lifestyle change, inclusively but controlled physical activity and enhanced dietary techniques. The considerations in a broader scale include reflecting on the existing lifestyle and the negative consequences attributed to the existing support framework on healthcare management. The comparable levels which are directly linked to young people and the behaviors which ought to rightly relate to unhealthy eating choices equally measure straightforwardly to the relevance of the contributions made to be able to enhance health related education in learning environments.

Traditionally a fat people meant healthy persons who were able survive various rigors of undernourishment and infections. However, in the last few decades this notion has tend to change other researcher developing various foundations to outdo the notion. Excessive weight or fatness has been established as one of the primary health problem especially in the developed nations among other regions around the globe. The definitions of weight and obesity differ based on various epidemiological studies; this makes cross-sectional comparisons on the data quite complex. Obesity has been established as a multisystem disease with potential devastating consequences hence need for attention. Overweigh is defined as the excess body weight which may result from fat, muscles, bone and water while obesity is the excess body fat within the body.

In children obesity increases risks for the future deaths emanating from different causes such as colorectal cancer, atherosclerotic cerebrovascular disease, and coronary heart disease. On the other hand, obesity in childhood and adolescence is largely associated with some serious problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, among other diseases that causes death. There has prevalence of obesity increasing sharply especially in children hence an alarming need for effective interventions. The fact that obesity is increasing sharply among the adolescents poses a threat based on the finding that 70 percent of obesity cases tend to persist mostly in adulthood. There has not been established effective or successful treatment for obesity with the currently recommended programs results to only 10 percent on body weight reduction with virtually all the patients regaining weight again within few years of the treatment.

Physical activity or need to indulge in heavy excesses has been termed as major determining and contributing factor in the total causes of obesity with no supporting data on effectives of such assumptions. The outcome has been, physical activity being one of the most recently associated causing factors leading to obesity. It is defined precisely as the body movements initiated or resulted from skeletal muscles through substantial increases in relation to resting expenditure. Researchers have grouped this aspect in relation to three aspects, this include; occupational work, household and other duties and leisure-time physical activities. These activities generalize the normal activities executed by various individuals.

• Energy imbalances:

According to assumption by researchers, minor imbalances on the energy rations can gradually lead to obesity. This is normally implicated by consistence gradual imbalances. They accredit the condition to cases such inheritance on metabolic behaviors leading to adoption of the situation. The next accredited cause is poor eating and lifestyle habits. Researchers stipulate two types of imbalances such as, the positive and the negative imbalances. The positive imbalances is a situation analyzed by energy intake being greater than the total energy expenditure while negative energy imbalance being a situation where the body has reduced fat storage and weight loss mechanisms. Providing this form of information during the research ensures that the patients or the study samples can adjust their lifestyle by identification of their current position.

• Dietary intake:

This is also another misconception on major leading cause of obesity. Various researchers have indicated how food intake especially in the current environment as attributed by technological and environmental changes largely causes obesity. The major leading contributing factors in relation to the food intake causes and implications on obesity include foods such as; fat and alcohol. They depict that Intake of meals with high fat intakes contributes directly to obesity of the rate is high according to various research. This is further supplemented by drinks that are rich in energy. The major components of this drinks and foods are normally calorie foods. Calorie intake leads to increase in the total calorie level in the body leading to obesity. Providing this information during the research ensures that the patients used during the study are availed with adequate information about some of the contributing factors to their problems.

• Energy expenditure:

This also termed as another major contributing factor on the causes of obesity. According to researchers it entails three components. They are commonly the basal metabolic rate (BMR), thermic effect of food (TEF) and the normal physical activities. Basal metabolic rate refers to the utility of energy by a person who is fasting in relation to other aspects. It integrates mainly the various costs incurred by the body when maintaining the body system. The total variations of this cost vary in relation to individuals’ body weight and other activities. Thermogenesis entails a situation where the rise in BMR rate in response to the stimulation ignited by intakes such as food intakes or drinks, fear, stress or drugs.