Obesity, generally defined in children having a body mass at or above 85th percentile for age and sex, has been reported as the chief nutritional problem in the United States among all age groups. Obesity occurs when people consume more calories than they expend as energy, and the excess calories are stored as fat.
This imbalance in nutrition is a reflection of an interplay of cultural, physical and psychological factors. Individual eating habits which often follow patterns set in a particular household/home, this also is affected by standards set by the culture at large. (Leibel,1997;A Stunkard et al 1990).
Certain parents may have underfed their babies because of a belief that overfeeding infants is likely to lead to obesity in later life.
Two factors that have appeared to strongly influence the chances that in obese child will grow up to been obese adults are; The age of the child and whether or not the parents of the child are obese. Obesity at age 6 was found to have no relationship with obesity at age 16, after age 6 obese children were increasingly likely to become obese adults(Roche, 1987).
Studies in the state of Washington shows that obese children under age 3 who did not have an obese parent were unlikely to grow up to be obese, but among children above that age, obesity in childhood was an increasingly important predictor of adult obesity. Having an obese parent more than doubled the risk that a child under age 10 would be obese in adulthood, whether or not the child was currently obese(Whitaker, Wright, Pepe, Siedel & Dietz,1997).
Even though there is no evidence that obesity hurt babies, 1 or 2 year olds who has an obese parent should be a candidate for prevention efforts. Factors such as rich diet & poor exercising may be considered.
However the Ideal time to treat obesity in children is between 3 and 9 years of age, when its more likely that the condition if left untreated will persist and when parents still have a strong influence on child diet and activities. (Whitaker,et al,1997).
The best thing a parent can do for now to avoid obesity in themselves and in their children is to adopt a more active lifestyle for their entire family.
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