Obesity and disorders associated with it are a pandemic in the whole world. The number of school-aged children in the world who carry excess fats amount ten percent and one quarter of this population are obese. Child obesity brings with it with many health complications. The problems associated with child obesity include type 2 diabetes, sleep disorders, hypertension, cancers and cardiac diseases. The number of children having obesity keeps increasing because of the diet. The leading factor leading to obesity is the dietary changes. The consumed food products have high amounts of fats and low in unrefined carbohydrates content (Lobstein et al, 2004). The genetic composition also plays a role in causing obesity. The lifestyle that does not allow the excess energy expenditure leads to the accumulation of the excess fats that lead to obesity.
Treatment of obesity requires a combination of many ways. The ways include the improvement of nutritional habits, behavioral modification, pharmaceutical therapy, increasing levels of physical activity and surgery as the last resort.
Preventions
Prevention remains the only realistic remedy to obesity in children. These prevention programs aim at eliminating the societal issues that expose the children to becoming obese. The homes and the school settings should incorporate the prevention programs that reduce the prevalence of obesity in the children. The programs aim at making the bodies of the children active. It programs aim to make changes in the social trends that expose the children to becoming obese.
Results
Implementation of the programs yields results because the general population becomes aware of the ways to reduce obesity. There will be reduction in costs associated with obesity. Obesity has direct and indirect costs that come with it. The government spends money in health programs. The implementation of the obesity management programs reduces the number of children having conditions related to obesity.
References
Lobstein, T., Baur, L., & Uauy, R. (2004). Obesity in children and young people: a crisis in public health. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467- 789X.2004.00133.x/full
