Obesity usually affects adults and the recent years have seen an upsurge of the phenomenon and the children. The truth is that throughout the world the phenomenon of childhood obesity is alarming since the children with complications similar to those of adults, threatening many times their own lives. Listed below you can find a list of facts, which are an indisputable witness of the seriousness of the situation. The conclusions are yours to consider:
- 60% of children between 5 to 10 years old that happen to be obese have a minimum of one risk factor for heart problems and 25% of them have a greater number (two or more)
- Almost 16% of children which are between the ages of 6 to 19 are already overweight or obese
- The probability to be obese as an adult is nearly 70% if you were overweight as a child
- The lap-band surgery which helps people in their effort to lose some weight is quite expensive as you will have to pay an average of 30,000 dollars
- If you want your children to have a gastric bypass surgery, be prepared to pay here as well: the cost can be range from $25,000 and above
- Different studies had shown that almost 93 Billion Dollars were used for overweight people’s medical care in 1998 . This number rises to geometric figures
- Along with this money, another $127 million used in 1999 for overweight treatments
- Children who were born in 2000 are about 30% more likely to acquire type 2 diabetes throughout their life, unlike the children born in 1990 which had less than 4%
- Studies on this condition and the generated side-effects shows that obese children are less than 5 years of life than their peers because of possible complications from various diseases
- Over weighted children are on greater risk of acquiring side effects from the obesity, such as liver diseases, orthopedic complications and symptoms of asthma
- Greater than 70% children who suffer from overweight problems continue to keep their overweight and obese state even as adults