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The obesity is one of the evils that stalks the lives of young adolescents. Provided by the sedentary life, and especially for the poor eating habits, the overweight undertakes the health, welfare and the appearance of who falls in their claws.

Among the poor eating habits of boys and girls reported by the specialists emphasize the intake of food cheap, easy to consume and prepare; the disrespect for the three basic moments newspapers, breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the increase in consumption of jams and sweetened beverages, especially among the child population, element that translates into three or four kilos per year.

Experts warn in particular on the dangerous bad practice of starting the day without breakfast or with a breakfast incomplete or inappropriate, since this is the most important meal of the day to be the first after several hours without food and supply in addition the mainstay essential for the day.

Another element that is of concern to the connoisseurs, is the imbalance nutritional status of the diet of the young adolescents, in which the calorie consumption does not correspond with the daily physical activity, nor that of proteins nor meets the needs of the agency in full phase of growth and development.

Expert Advice against obesity in adolescence

- To increase the presence of fresh food in the diet, particularly fruits, vegetables and cereals, on any comprehensive for his contribution more fiber.

- Consume at least two servings of vegetables and three pieces of fruit daily because they help to regulate the metabolism.

- Take half a liter milk a day, distributed throughout the day, because the calcium and vitamins that brings are vital for the mineralization and quality of the bones in adolescence.

- To increase the consumption of fish, especially the blue.

- Use the virgin olive oil in the preparation of the dishes.

- To eliminate fried foods of the diet, replacing them with the cooked at the plate or stews low fat.

- Limit your intake of foods rich in sugar and salt, particularly among the child population

- Drink no less than two liters a day of water.

- To encourage from early stages of life the practiced systematically physical exercises.

Obesity of children is in the process of explode in France. In the field, there is no exception Hexagon bolts : we follow the traces of the United States. But the 2/3 of children will remain obese to adulthood. Yet, tools exist today to track what poor even before he did not appear. And the actions of prevention, focus on the balance food and physical activity, are not so difficult to adopt. If one speaks often the obesity of the adult, children are also the first victims of this scourge.

A reality
Today the situation with regard to obesity mortality is very worrying : 15 per cent of children suffer from a obesity moderate (degree 1) and virtually 4 % of an obesity strong (level 2). The situation has evolved very quickly : obesity in general do affected that 3 per cent of children in the 1960S. Today, we have a rate of growth of overweight comparable to the Americans. Obesity may thus appear as early as 2 years, even if it found mainly between 7 and 12 years. It must be stressed that 2/3 of children obese will remain at the adulthood. And this means a risk of cardiovascular problems multiplied by three, disturbances articular… without referring of course of the stigma and social problems.

Your child is too big ?
Not easy to know if his child to a problem of weight, if it is just a little chubby or suffers from obesity. The tool commonly used in the adult is the body mass index : the weight on the size with the square. But in the child, it cannot use the same thresholds in the light of age. The corpulence of the child varies continually. The ministry of health has published corpulence curves, which allow for see where the child.

Station to rebound
The important thing is to keep to date regularly the curve of corpulence. It allows in particular to see a called the current rebound element of adiposity : after a year, and up to six years, the child grows faster than it does not growing. Also the curve decline. Then, around six years, weight and size is going to grow in similar proportions, and the index of body mass will renew up to the figure grow adult (that is the rebound). When a child suffers from obesity early, one sees very well on the curve the time when everything started : there is a fracture, a rebound of adiposity early : instead of recover to grow toward 6 years, the corpulence believes from three years (sometimes a year). We can then detect an evolution problematic, and take measures before the child kind of curves. This allows particular not put to the regime a child, but simply to maintain its weight, in the leaving grow for the bring on the good plot.