children weighty problems

The obesity concerns not only the adults. More and more children also have severe weighty problems. The problem is that the parents react often only to the preadolescence. Now, the more we act late, the more it is difficult to invert the tendency … The advices to prevent the obesity at the children.

Is my child too big?

To diagnose the obesity at the adult, we use the indication of physical mass. On the other hand, at the child who increases, things are more complicated. To facilitate the diagnosis, we thus created the curves of corpulence: they allow to compare the indication of physical mass of your small to that of the children of the same age and the same sex. In a blow of eye, you know if your son or your daughter is in the standard: if your child curve is over the average reference curve, it is because he has a weighty problem. Where from the interest to hold well up to date the health record of the child in which we find these famous curves. Do not neglect the compulsory medical consultations, in particular those 9th and 24th months. They are the occasion to review the evolution of the size and the weight of your child. - If ever the curve of your child "drops out" of the reference curve, you have to consult. Normally, the indication of physical mass climbs in arrow to 12-15 months but then it falls to reach his minimum near 6 years. He increases then again: it is that we call the bounce of adiposity. Three possible scenarios have to draw your attention: the indication continues to grow after 15 months; the indication don’t augmented from 6 years but much more early, at about 3-4 years; the IMC is in the standard to 6-8 years but makes a jump then.

Child: to whom address in case of overweight?

You wonder for some time. Up to there, you said to yourselves only that your child was "very well carrying". But now, you are afraid that he(it) has a real problem of overweight. You can turn to one of these professionals.

- The regular doctor: general practitioners and paediatricians are more and more made sensitive in the surveillance of the obesity.

- The doctors’ psychologists and school nurses: they can help you too to see again the food behavior at the house and the way of life of your child.

- The SMALL INDUSTRIAL FIRM services (maternal and childish Protection): they are particularly useful for families for modest incomes, the first ones got by the obesity.

Teach to the child to eat well

If we inculcate good customs very early to the child, to eat varied, balanced and in reasonable quantities will become (almost) natural for him. Also keep for the spirit that a child has an advantage with regard to the adult: he continues to grow. If he manages to stabilize his weight, by taking several centimeters, his profile is automatically going to become refined.

- From 6 months, begin by introducing 1 or 2 spoonful of puree of carrots, corvettes or fresh fruit juice in his feeding-bottle. You will increase then gradually doses.

- If the small sees you pulling in front of your spinach, he risks hardly imitating you. To you to show the example so that he does not throw back systematically all which is colored, of smell and texture unusual. If ever he really jibs eating his green vegetables, do not promise him a good dessert in reward. It would be the proof that spinach and beans, it is not good, contrary to the ice in the chocolate …

- And if the lunch or the dinner was the occasion for you to express all your creativity? Made play the forms and the colors, draw landscapes, persons

- A child does not need that your ado nor your husband or your wife. Then, know please how to measure, the quantities. You can be helped for it by a dietitian or a nutritionist.

- Accustom your child to eat at regular hours, based at a table, not to jump meal or still not to nibble during the day.

- Exceptionally, you can take your children in fast food restaurant. But prefer a well-balanced meal: some water rather than a soft drink, a fruit salad in dessert...

- If the small sees you pulling in front of your spinach, he risks hardly imitating you. To you to show the example so that he does not throw back systematically all which is colored, of smell and texture unusual. If ever he really jibs eating his green vegetables, promise to him

Encourage the physical activity of the child

The overweight and the obesity can come from a bad food but also from a lack of physical activity. For that reason, it is important to verify that your child does not too much spend time in front of the television or the video games.

To distract him, think of proposing him in return of the rewarding activities. Even if it is binding for you, try to get free a little of time to bring him to courts of tennis, judo, dance, swimming, etc. …