Standard weight control table for children: being overweight affects growth and height, and does more harm to boys.

With regard to childhood obesity, parents must not hold the idea that being fat for nothing is a blessing. You know, childhood obesity is likely to be accompanied by a lifetime, which is by no means alarmist.

This is not, seeing the weather getting hot day by day, many parents begin to worry about the "weight" of their children.

For example, a 10-year-old boy in Hangzhou who was delayed by the epidemic needs to lose 25 kilograms within 3 months to become obese, otherwise it will affect normal development.

Similarly, recently, Xuan Ma can often see parents with their children skipping rope, playing badminton and basketball in the community.

In addition to the consideration of showing flesh in summer, it is more likely that children are obese, which has become a major concern for many parents.

According to the 2020 report on Nutrition and chronic Diseases of Chinese residents:

The rate of overweight and obesity in children under 6 years old reached 10%. The rate of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents between the ages of 6 and 17 was close to 20%.

Moreover, there are sporadic cases of obesity and child harm in the news, which is even more worrying.

"one fat destroys everything!"

They all say: one white covers all ugliness, one fat destroys everything.

Obesity, to a certain extent, affects not only the child's appearance, but also physical development.

Common problems are:

Easy to get diabetes, dyslipidemia, liver abnormalities and even gallstones, as well as affect bone development.

Moreover, being overweight has an unspeakable pain for boys: it may lead to stunted growth in chicks.

Because obese boys accumulate subcutaneous fat and their external genitals are covered with thick fat, they look smaller in appearance.

In the long run, it will affect the normal development of testicles and scrotum, and seriously lead to sexual dysfunction in children's adulthood!

Parents with boys at home must be more alert to the problem of obesity and urge their children to lose weight.

As for how long a child's "chicken" is normal, you might as well refer to the following picture:

Note: the data in the table is the length of "chicken" in the quiet state of the baby.

In addition, with regard to childhood obesity, parents must not hold the idea that "being fat is a blessing".

You know, childhood obesity is likely to be accompanied by a lifetime, which is by no means alarmist.

According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine:

88% of obese children remain obese in adulthood.

This is mainly because childhood obesity is a chronic metabolic disease that increases the risk of chronic diseases in adulthood.

And compared with adult adipocyte volume increased obesity, childhood obesity is mostly an increase in the number of adipocytes.

Even if you lose weight when you grow up, it's hard to reduce the amount of fat in your body, so it's easy to get fat again.

It's just a fat life, so people have to guard against it!

How to define childhood obesity

First look at the two children in the picture below and guess which one is overweight and which one is obese

I believe that many people will subconsciously feel that the boy on the right is fatter and bigger in his senses.

In fact, childhood obesity is not simply defined by the naked eye, more meat is obesity.

It should be measured comprehensively according to height, weight, age and other factors.

Generally speaking, the main medical indicator used to measure the degree of obesity is the body mass index (BMI).

When the BMI exceeds a certain index, it will be defined as "overweight" and "obese".

BMI has a formula for calculating:

To take a simple example, a boy is 10 years old, 1.6m tall and weighs 50kg, then apply the formula:

BMI=50 / (1.6) 219.53, according to the control table, it is between overweight and obesity, indicating that the boy is overweight and not obese.

Similarly, for preschoolers, there are corresponding adjustments:

Parents, you can check the table to see if your child is overweight.

The cause of child obesity is tens of millions.

For children with obesity, parents should not cut across the board and let their children go on a diet blindly.

To find out the crux of the obesity problem, we can prescribe the right medicine!

Generally speaking, childhood obesity is caused partly by heredity and partly by acquired factors.

But according to experts, obesity is related to both internal and external causes, and it is more affected by acquired factors.

The following major factors need to focus on prevention!

Improper diet

As the saying goes, "illness enters through the mouth." most of the physical problems in children are related to diet.

For example, "overeating" can easily lead to obesity, not only for children, but also for adults.

You know, there is a limit to the amount of energy the body needs every day. Once the energy is exceeded, the excess energy will be converted into fat, which in turn leads to obesity.

And breakfast must not be saved, not only related to the energy of the day, but also increase the chances of children getting fat!

So, to control your weight, the first step is to control your child's mouth and adjust your diet properly.

Trans fatty acid

Trans fatty acids, who is sacred?

Some parents may be strange to the name, but you must have bought the following foods containing trans fatty acids for your children.

This type of food contains trans fatty acids, which are much higher in calories than ordinary fatty foods. The key point is that they are not easy to digest.

Easy to accumulate in the abdomen, resulting in childhood obesity!

Not only does it lead to obesity, but trans fatty acids have a particularly strong impact on children aged 3 to 12:

1 affect intellectual development, leading to memory loss and dementia in children

(2) in the long run, it affects the fertility of children when they grow up.

Thus it can be seen that if you can buy less of this kind of food, buy as little as possible!

Children may not be able to resist temptation, but as parents, we must strive to protect our children at the forefront!

Electronic screen

Do you think that only eating and drinking too much and being sedentary can easily make children fat?

Actually, it's not.

Environmental factors are also an important cause of childhood obesity, such as watching TV, playing with mobile phones and watching electronic screens.

Studies have shown that:

Watching TV may be the most definite environmental factor affecting childhood obesity.

The reason is very simple, children watching TV, usually accompanied by the behavior of eating snacks, eating while watching, it is easy to control the amount.

Over and over again, the weight will gain little by little.

Moreover, the tempting snack advertisements shown on TV, as well as the food scenes in the play, will greatly increase children's appetite.

In this regard, Junior's advice is to try not to allow children under the age of 2 to watch TV.

For older children, the amount of time they spend watching TV should also be controlled within 2 hours every day, preferably after the child has finished exercising.

Control the child's weight ≠ lose weight

In the view of many parents, the most direct way to control the weight of their children is to lose weight.

Then do it, give the child a diet, forbid snacks, and urge exercise. Everything.

At the same time, use words to "motivate" the child:

"people call you chubby, but it doesn't matter."

"if you are so fat, you won't follow your father and me."

He is so fat that no one wants it when he grows up.

But the problem is, as soon as the child cries and cries out that he is hungry, the parents feel distressed, and the great cause of losing weight comes to an abrupt end.

The result is often, lose 5 jin, rebound 7 jin, do not reduce the weight, no effect at all.

After repeated failures, some parents pin their hopes on the children's weight loss camp and l