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.
- This happens and vice versa: one in ten parents expressed concern considering that the child’s weight was not what they thought that this was normal and had to obtain more, where in this case the children had the proper bodyweight.
- 15% of children who are between ages 8 to 16 are overweight
- 25% of children who are between ages 8 to 16 watches three or more hours of television on a daily basis
Image: obese kids through the years
- Almost two-thirds of high school students exercise for a maximum of 2 hours a week, while the remaining one third not exercise in the slightest degree
- The incidences of type 2 diabetes has doubled
- Cases of interruption of breathing through the sleep time of children increased by 4 times
- 21 percent of children eat the recommended portion of fresh fruits and vegetables which consist of five or more servings of these every day.
- There is a possibility of 70% a child who have been obese during childhood will continue to be obese into adulthood as well
- The incidents of higher than normal body-weight in children aged 6 to 11 years old has been raised from 4% to 15% within the last 40 years
When this larger size food or drinks are been to humans, it is difficult for them to determine what is the appropriate serving size to consume . In that way, the consumption increased along with the food size.