OBESITY – NIP THE EVIL IN THE BUD

OBESITY – NIP THE EVIL IN THE BUD

When we have to form an opinion about a person, we first look at his personality, and then assess his character. If the appearance itself puts us off, we go no further. Thus, to start with, person’s overall physical appearance is crucial to forming an opinion of him. We may even like a person despite his unattractive physical attributes, but that happens only after we have spent considerable time with him. This is very true in the case of small children too. Obese children become the butt of all jokes in their school, which starts telling on their performance and psychological well being too.

Working parents have this guilt that they are not able to spend quality time with their children and in a bid to atone for this guilt; they indulge their children with fattening” ready to eat” foods and try to impress their young ones. Children too, being unaware of the implication behind gorging on these high-calorie foods, just feast on them while slouching on the sofas and watching TV. The result is deposition of oodles of fat in the body which leads to obesity. There is another interesting observation here. Children of fat parents have a tendency to become fat. The parents having a wrong diet pattern themselves ignorantly use the same pattern on their children too, which ultimately contributes their putting on unnecessary weight, which is not very easy to shed later.

Obesity should be addressed at a young age itself; because a fat child can develop serious diseases associated with heart and may even develop type II diabetes, which will again have detrimental effect on their healthy growth and psychological well being. Parents must seek the advice of health counselors and send the children to such health camps, where attention will be given to streamlining the diet and physical exercises, which will help them to burn unwanted fat. If the problems are attended to in the early stages itself, it will avoid all sorts of embarrassments in the later years and help the youngsters to grow into confident and healthy adults.

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