Prevention and treatment measures of childhood obesity, with the development of economy, people's living standards are getting higher and higher, especially some children always ask for high-calorie food, so there are more and more obese children, which greatly affects their health. The following are some prevention and treatment measures for childhood obesity.
Prevention and treatment measures of childhood obesity 1 slow down the eating speed.
Because children don't pay attention when eating, in order to make their children feel at ease, some parents will ask their children to finish eating within the specified time. This is not good for children's health. Letting children eat slowly can improve their patience and appetite sensitivity to hunger. It can prevent children from overeating and causing obesity. Therefore, in the process of eating, we should cultivate the habit of chewing slowly.
Eat regularly and quantitatively.
The time for eating every day should be relatively fixed. Don't neglect your child's diet because you are busy with work or other things. The instability of eating time can also easily lead to children getting fat. And eat regularly, so that children can eat well for breakfast, eat more for lunch and eat less for dinner. Ensure the intake of fruits and vegetables for children every day and keep a balanced diet. If the child is hungry easily before going to bed, you can let the child drink a glass of milk. Milk will not only increase the burden on the stomach, but also promote sleep.
Watch less TV and exercise more.
When eating, there are more cartoons on TV. Therefore, in order to let children eat quietly and smoothly, let children breast-feed while watching TV, but this is not good, which will easily lead to overfeeding. In addition, parents can find that in life, children who love watching TV and exercise less are mostly fat.
Drink more juice and water and less sweet drinks.
Most obese children like to drink carbonated drinks such as coke and sprite. These drinks are rich in sugar and calories. It's strange that the baby is not fat after drinking too much.
Therefore, controlling the baby to drink carbonated drinks is an important way to prevent childhood obesity. Usually, mom should try to use sugar-free juice and water instead. Before eating, the mother asked the child to drink some juice, and a glass of juice was put into the stomach. The small stomach didn't have much capacity.
Prevention and treatment measures of childhood obesity. Avoid excessive nutrition of mothers and excessive weight gain during pregnancy.
2. Perinatal care should include infant feeding guidance, emphasize the benefits of breastfeeding, give specific guidance to breastfeeding, and publicize the dangers of overfeeding. In infancy, encourage exclusive breastfeeding for 4 to 6 months.
Don't add solid food in the first 4 months after birth. Measure and record your weight every month. If you find that your baby's weight is growing too fast, you should give your mother guidance in time, give less solid food, especially cereal, and replace it with fruits and vegetables.
4. Cultivate good eating habits, establish a regular life system in the early stage of the baby, and avoid overfeeding and overprotection.
5. For school-age children and adolescents, the self-awareness and self-control ability of obese children are gradually improving, so it is very important to strengthen nutrition education and health education, publicize nutrition knowledge, guide correct food selection, encourage eating more fruits and vegetables, and remove or reduce fat and sugar food components in the diet.
6. Take at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical exercise or physical activity every day.
7. Control the time of watching TV and playing video games to reduce the academic burden.
8. Comprehensive intervention measures including diet adjustment, exercise prescription, behavior improvement, follow-up monitoring and clinical treatment should be taken for obese and potentially obese children, but hunger, surgery, physical therapy and short-term rapid weight loss should not be advocated.
Causes of childhood obesity
Eating habits: The most prominent cause of childhood obesity is unreasonable eating habits. Many obese children in childhood like to eat high-calorie foods and sweets, and often eat snacks instead of breakfast. According to the survey, if you only eat breakfast once a week, the probability of obesity is 18.6%, and if you eat breakfast every day, the probability of obesity is 1 1.8%.
Living habits: I don't like sports, I often watch TV, and I like to lie still after dinner. These are also the reasons why children are obese. According to the survey, the obesity probability increases 1.5% for every hour of watching TV.
Endocrine disorder: Although growth hormone deficiency, thyroid hormone deficiency and cortisol excess are rare in obese children and adolescents, these diseases are characterized by reduced energy consumption and reduced growth, which leads to obvious central obesity in short children with slow growth.
Drugs: Long-term high-dose glucocorticoid therapy has a special form of centripetal weight gain.
Prevention and treatment measures of childhood obesity 3 i. Standards of childhood obesity
Scientific standard of children's ideal weight
1-6 months: weight (kg) = birth weight (kg)+month age × 0.6;
7- 12 months: standard weight (kg) = birth weight (kg)+ month age × 0.5;
1 year or older: standard weight (kg)= 8+ age ×2.
According to the formula: (measured weight/standard weight-1) × 100%, if it exceeds 10% of standard weight, it can be considered overweight, and once it exceeds 20%, it belongs to obesity.
The degree of childhood obesity can be divided into three grades:
Mild obesity: the weight exceeds the standard weight of normal children by 20%-30%.
Moderate obesity: the weight exceeds the standard weight of normal children by 30%-50%.
Severe obesity: the weight exceeds the standard weight of normal children by more than 50%.
Second, the harm of childhood obesity
Hyperlipidemia: The blood lipid of obese children is significantly higher than that of normal children.
Hypertension: Due to the increase of obese children's body size, the total metabolism and oxygen consumption of the body increase, which obviously increases the burden on the heart and raises blood pressure.
Hyperinsulinemia: Hyperinsulinemia is common in obese children.
Fatty liver: The incidence of fatty liver in severely obese children is as high as 80%. Obesity in children is an important factor to induce fatty liver, and hypertension and hyperlipidemia are dangerous signals for obese children to suffer from fatty liver.
Respiratory diseases: Obese children are prone to respiratory diseases because of the accumulation of fat in chest wall, which limits chest expansion, affects lung ventilation function and reduces respiratory resistance.
Digestive system diseases: The prevalence rate of digestive system diseases in obese children is 15%, which is significantly higher than that in normal children.
Low immune function: Obese children have low immune function, especially decreased cell activity, and are prone to infectious diseases.
Precocious puberty: the contents of testosterone in male blood and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate in female serum of obese children are significantly higher than those of normal children. The increase of body fat can increase the secretion of adrenal hormones and reduce the sensitivity of hypothalamus to the threshold of circulating sex hormones.
Low IQ: The total IQ of obese children is lower than that of healthy children.
Third, what about childhood obesity?
1. Cultivate children to develop good eating habits. Cultivate children to eat regularly from an early age. Starting from primary school, they have to eat three meals a day. Don't add meals between classes, don't let children eat snacks, and encourage children to eat dinner on time. Mothers pay special attention to children who love snacks or skip breakfast and quickly get rid of bad habits. Skipping breakfast is one of the reasons for obesity.
2. Increase physical activity and give children time and space to play. Young children should not be confined indoors, but go outdoors as much as possible. They can take older children to do morning exercises together, let them freely participate in children's group games, cultivate working habits from an early age, encourage housework, limit TV watching time, cultivate interest in various entertainment activities, and help children develop optimistic, good living habits and regular schedules, which is very helpful for preventing hypertension.
3, refused to nourish health care products Some parents think that nourishing health care products can definitely help children grow and develop, but they suffer from it, not only obesity, but also precocious puberty.
4. Children's weight loss should be called weight control, that is, obese children maintain normal growth in height during their growth and development, and their weight does not increase or slowly increases, and gradually adapt their weight to their height, instead of blindly losing weight, otherwise it will affect children's growth and development.
If your baby has crossed the standard line of childhood obesity, then your baby may be obese. There are many reasons for childhood obesity. As parents, we must actively take necessary measures according to these reasons to eliminate childhood obesity and maintain a healthy and normal body.