This Child Obesity Guide

This Child Obesity Guide

Hint of obesity or overweight children during his life can be seen before the child was two years old. One sign is the rapid increase in body weight.

A study involving more than 100 children and adolescents who are obese show, half of the children were overweight at age 24 months and 90 percent obese at the age of five years. Even a quarter are overweight before the age of five months.



In developed countries, obesity has become a serious concern of health practitioners because of health problems that may result from excess body weight. In Britain, about 27 percent of children suffer from obesity.

Although rapid weight gain in childhood have not understood the cause, giving solid foods earlier, poor diet, and lack of physical activity believed to contribute.

The researchers reported in the journal Clinical Pediatrics states, child eating patterns established before the child was two years old. Therefore, changing the eating habits of children at a greater age is considered more difficult.

John Harrington, chairman of researchers from Eastern Virginia Medical School, said the results should be "early warning" for doctors and parents to instill healthy eating as early as possible.