I agree that a parent should watch their child's health. It disgusts me when parents let their kids eat like that and don't seem to care when they get obese, not the obesity itself but the lack of care of the child's health.
Question About Fatness
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Same here... I eat very healthy... although I occasionally eat badly (like right now, I think I ate too many sausages lol) but I have a ridiculous metabolism.
Once a child is obese, they absolutely should be placed on a diet with tremendous emphasis on education about healthy eating. Of course , prevention is the best medicine. Obesity is a medical diagnosis--it needs to be treated like any other disease, before it leads to 5 more (which it will).
I try and teach my children about nutrition and why its important and not just why junk food is bad. They are allowed one "sugar" each day, be it liquid or solid. They are not supposed to watch more than one hour of television as long as the sun is out and we do family exercise after dinner three times a week. They have freedom to eat whatever they like if we are at a party, this way they don't feel like they are being deprived anything. We believe that teaching them the importance of good nutrition is similar to that of teaching them to respect each other, you lead by example. I do not consider any of us to be on a diet, just concious of what we eat.
absolutely not. a healthy REGULAR diet (not an invasive diet) and healthy active lifestyle will prevent MOST people from getting too large, overweight, fat, whatever you like to call it. there are a select few people who cannot control it, even with extreme diet and exercise (i'm related to one), but most people shouldnt ever have to go on a hardcore die,t because they should have eaten healthier and been more active to begin with.
it's kinda funny that these days, living an active lifestyle and having a healthy diet is considered "being on a diet", instead of being the norm.
it's kinda funny that these days, living an active lifestyle and having a healthy diet is considered "being on a diet", instead of being the norm.
it's kinda funny that these days, living an active lifestyle and having a healthy diet is considered "being on a diet", instead of being the norm.
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Not sure what an invasive diet is, but once a child is obese from lack of prevention, the whole family needs a dietary change, unless the kid has been tortured with food. Prevention is always the best medicine, but when that fails, you need treatment (which is dietary modification=diet)!
Children should never be placed on a diet unless recomended by a pediatrician. Diets are designed for unusually high weight loss over a short period of time and are very hard on the system In a child it is even more so. As children grow and mature they use up a lot of their fat cells as it transforms to muscle.This is a natural progression.
However with regards to obesiety sometimes there are genetic dispositions towards it (my fathers side of the family has it), and in those cases children should be put on a proper dietary regime to prevent the excess weight gain. Furthermore too often people think they are obese when they are not. Over the years science has changed the 'rules' about wight and size. What used to be considered endomorphic in size sometimes is now considered mesomorphic. Parents are not the best judge of this and thus why I say they should not arbitrarily put their children on a diet. Excercise and proper diet are the responsibility of the parent. Encouraging of such should be foremost in every parents child raising regeme.
However with regards to obesiety sometimes there are genetic dispositions towards it (my fathers side of the family has it), and in those cases children should be put on a proper dietary regime to prevent the excess weight gain. Furthermore too often people think they are obese when they are not. Over the years science has changed the 'rules' about wight and size. What used to be considered endomorphic in size sometimes is now considered mesomorphic. Parents are not the best judge of this and thus why I say they should not arbitrarily put their children on a diet. Excercise and proper diet are the responsibility of the parent. Encouraging of such should be foremost in every parents child raising regeme.
