How can we combat child obesity in a realistic manner?

It starts with close monitoring of your child and his/her activities specially is school.Physical, social & mental activities helps in solving obesity but food intake should be no. 1  to be considered.  A child who is more physically active tends to eat more when he/she becomes tired. Proper diet should be monitored closely and the children should understand well and accept why they are given this diet.  

Today’s youth is way too sedentary, with the technological era making it much too easy to just sit around and be occupied. Try to encourage kids to put down their indoor electronics and go for a walk, ride their bike, hit the playground, play recreational sports, and engage in all types of physical activities - especially with other friends. Kids tend to play more often and longer when they are with other kids so this is a great way to get them moving.

Some ways to assist with their activity can be as simple as having them do some calisthenics. Set up a small (yet safe) obstacle course for the kids to race each other through. Supply them with a large tug-of-war rope. Teach them some of the old-time favorite games such as running bases, capture the flag, tag, jump rope, etc. These games may appear silly at first glance but are great ways for kids to work on many skill sets such as their running, agility, conditioning, strength, competitive nature, and strategic thinking.

Health awareness, changing diet patterns, and improving nutrition through eating healthy food, reducing unhealthy food, exercising and increasing physical activity.

* To improve the child's diet:

1 - When buying foods should be selected fruits and vegetables instead of foods high in sugar and fat, and must provide a healthy snack at the disposal of the child permanently,

Food is prohibited as a means of punishment

 Or reward.

 2 - Limit sweetened beverages, including fruit juice, they provide food items of low value compared to the calories they contain, in addition to that the child feels full, do not eat healthy food and nutrition and replace it with fresh juices.

3 - Encouraging the habit of eating at one table as a whole family, and converting the food to the occasion to exchange news, news and stories, and reduce eating in front of the television or computer or video games, because it leads to fast eating and lack of awareness of the amount of food eaten by the child.

4 - Reduce the frequency of eating outside the home, especially in fast food restaurants that contain a high proportion of fat and calories.

* To increase the level of physical activity of the child is advised to:

1 - Limit the time of watching the child to television for less than two hours a day, limiting the watching television will increase its activity,

You should also limit video games and computer and talk on the phone.

2 - Emphasize the activity and not the exercise, it is not required to organize a program of exercises, but required to continue to move, and the exercise of free games such as: chase game and research, jump rope, which helps to burn calories and increase fitness.

3- Know the activities that the child loves. For example, if the child has artistic tendencies, he can start in nature to collect the leaves and rocks he can use to make stereoscopic art models, or if he likes to climb, or he likes to read, walk or bike to get a book .

4. To encourage the child to engage in physical activity, parents must also exercise common recreational activities, and caution against turning the exercise into a form of punishment.

 Or monotonous work.

5 - Diversity in activities, and leave each child a role in choosing the type of activity for a day or week, such as tennis or bowling or swimming

Or football.

* To prevent obesity:

1 - visit the doctor at least once a year where the doctor to measure the length and weight of the child and study indicators that may indicate

 To the possibility of obesity.

2. Parents should be a higher example of children, taking care to eat healthy foods and exercise regularly to maintain weight.

3. It is not recommended to use food as a means to modify the child's behavior, whether as punishment or as a reward.

4. Promote positive behavior, by promoting a healthy lifestyle, by focusing on the positive side, such as the pleasure of playing outside or the diversity of fresh fruits throughout the year.

5 - Emphasize the benefits of sport, apart from being a way to lose weight, for example: Sports strengthens the heart and lungs and muscles, and investment of natural tendencies of the child to run and discovery, and eating only when feeling hungry and not because of boredom. These practices will become healthy habits for the child over time.

6. Patience is the basis of success. Many children increase weight when they grow older. Parents should realize that excessive concentration on child eating habits is counterproductive and leads to more child

To eat.