The consequences from extra weight to a child’s health are merely a part of the obstacles that have to deal and often cannot overcome on a daily basis. The stigmatization that they usually face is another reason which ruin the child’s sense for it capabilities to fully be involved in the modern society and everyday life around them. While doctors and parents concentrate primarily with the treatment of the healthy aspects of childhood obesity, children on the other hand are more concentrated and interested for the social consequences and make that top priority for them.
Several studies have revealed the fact that psychosocial consequences of extra bodyweight were more worrying for the children than the healthy conditions that may suffered, and that sometimes psychosocial problems lead to eat more and thereafter to obese. For that reasons, it is suggested that parents and doctors must focus on obese children’s psychological and social desires, along with the medical aspects.
Almost every day obese children have psychological stress that is generated because of this frequent and sometimes not only at words harmful social relegation that accept from friends, teachers or even their parents. The result of these actions is to trigger to such kids levels of low self-esteem and start to neglect their school performance, how their body looks, and eventually avoiding any social interactions . Even more dangerous, these damaging and negative effects of such events can last well beyond the years of childhood and into the adult years.
The most interesting part that most of us don’t know is that the type of problems that obese children have to deal with is a lot different from what obese adults go through, and that for a good reasons:
Firstly, kids are still in the path of discovering who they really are, what are their capabilities, strengths and weaknesses. A continuing, annoying environment full of name-calling and teasing during these years can have a huge impact in the way a child feels about themselves, once and for all.
Secondly, as opposed to most adults, who happen to be mature and accept everyone the way they are, children tend to tend to openly express what they have in their minds and without thinking if they hurt you with the things they are saying.