The Impact of Obesity

on Adolescents

Obesity is associated with the leading causes of death and it is a public health threat to people around the world, especially in the United States. Many causes leading to the obesity prevalence among children and adolescents, which include our living environment, the consumption of highly processed food, and lack of physical exercise.

What can we do?

1. Develop healthy eating habits. Provide meals with nutrition and eat more veggies. Cut down consumption of fatty, sugar, and highly processed food.

4.Choose a healthy diet plan with the consultation of health care providers. Let your child eat a smaller portion, reducing, fats, snacks, sweets in their diet.

2.Children need to do daily physical exercise and less screen time.

5.Talk to the doctor about your children’s health condition. Check up to see if the BMI is appropriate for your children’s age.

6. Teach your child a healthy lifestyle. A child that sees their parents eat more fruit, vegetable, drink more water, get an adequate sleep, more active, and limit screen time, would be doing the same thing.

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