Why? It is due to a huge 32 percent of children in America are obese. (Adults are not worse, 34 percent of adult Americans are obese.) With these figures, the experts consider obesity as an epidemic.
Keith Ayoob, a professor at the Albert Einstein College in New York, expressed that parents also need to be involved in the choice of lifestyle for their children.
At a very young age, children learn their behavior from parents and take on their habits. If parents are not eating healthy, then there is a good chance that children will not eat better. When a child is obese, many times parents are obese as well.
The only good news is that obese Americans rate was stable over the years, but the population of obese Americans has yet to decline.
To help solve the problem of obesity, dieticians, psychologists, trainers and exercise physicians must work together to help children learn healthy behaviors and lose weight.
One problem, however, is that many health insurance plans generally do not cover these types of services. Weigh-management programs are also very few. But a lot can change as the weight control initiatives are becoming more popular and are proven to be effective.
First, doctors try their best to inform patients of the risks to health to obesity and to find ways to better prevent disease.
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