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Childhood Obesity Statistics

Childhood Obesity Statistics obese child

Let’s continue and uncover a lot more facts and statistics about childhood obesity. It can be difficult for many of us to accept them, but unfortunately it is the truth. A truth that will consolidate if we don’t act now:

Almost 75 percent of parents with an obese child could not identify that their kid was overweight but appear normal in their eyes.

Three out of ten mothers and six out of ten fathers treated their childs’weight as normal when, the truth was that these kids were at an unhealthy weight. Read more

Health problems associated with obesity

As being the mother or father of an obese child, you encounter a variety of concerns: Besides your child have to deal with lots of different psychological and social difficulties (like low self-confidence that is caused by teasing from other kids), is also at high risk state for creating serious and sometimes for an entire life physical medical conditions. The chance of such issues is enough to hold you awake through the night, stressed for your obese child’s future. Having said that, the good news is the fact that most of these problems are relatively easy to fix or can at the very least be reduced if we diagnose it in its early stage. Read more