Saturday, September 12, 2009

Overweight Children

By Raul Burks

Childhood obesity is higher than it has ever been before. As a result more and more children are becoming diabetic. Many are suffering other serious health effects.

To lose weight you must consume lower amounts of calories. You must also endure physical exercise to a greater extent. It is really hard for people to stay motivated.

If it is hard for adults, you can anticipate it yet harder for children. Children, do not necessarily understand the damaging health effects of being heavy. There are several ways you can assist your youngster to lose weight.

There are several ways you can help your child lose weight. Just stick to basics. This is better than rather going into a calculation of food calories.

You should also find ways for your child to get lots of exercise. There are ways that this can be done without acknowledging that it is exercise. If you keep it fun, they will like.

You can't expect your child not to overindulge if he sees you doing it. If your child is already overweight, you will have to make some changes to his diet. It is important that you keep an eye on what your child is eating at school too.

You have to make some changes to his diet. It is important that you keep an eye on what your child eats at school too. Most children do not have to make enormous changes in their diet.

Consider this for a minute. If your child gains of about 15 kilograms annually, this equals about 150 calories per day. Just do the calculations indicating that the pound is equal to about 3500 calories.

The first battle that you have to claim is stopping your child from gaining anymore weight. Figure out how much extra weight your child gained in the past year. Adjust his diet to compensate for these extra calories.

The changes can often be something small and simple, try switching from whole milk to 2%. Switch from regular pop to diet pop or no pop at all. Don't allow your child to come home from school and eat a sandwich or a bag of chips as an after school snack.

How much weight your child gained in the past year? Adjust his diet to compensate for these extra calories. The changes can often be something small and simple.

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