How do you prevent children from putting on weight?
Summary
What problems do you encounter most frequently in children?
For what reasons are children overweight?
Can one prevent a child from becoming overweight?
Should an overweight child be put on a proper diet?
For what reasons are children overweight?
A sedentary lifestyle is a key factor combined with an unbalanced diet, snacking between meals and overeating.
Genetic predisposition or a metabolic problem may also be involved.
The parents are often unintentionally responsible. They are not aware of their child being overweight, seeing them as normal or even skinny!
While some babies put on weight faster than normal after the age of 6 months, it is sometimes because they are fed day and night.
The children at risk are those who have an obese mother, babies that are very small and light at birth or, on the contrary, babies that are very big at birth and that have a ferocious appetite that they can never seem to satisfy.