Childhood Obesity Informative Speech

Obesity is a chronic disease that is increasing in prevalence in adults, adolescents, and children and is now considered to be a global epidemic. Obesity is associated with a significant increase immortality and risk of many disorders. Today I will be explaining the natural history of obesity and the aetiologic factors associated with being overweight and obese. People can become overweight at any age. However, there are certain times when weight gain tends to occur which vary between men and women. The aetiology of obesity in children, adolescents and adults is reviewed separately. There is increasing evidence that environmental and nutritional influences during critical periods in development can have permanent effects on an individual's

Childhood obesity varies with the age at onset of obesity and the family history. Obesity in adolescence is associated with severe obesity in adults. In spite of the importance of childhood and adolescent weight, most overweight people develop their problem in adult life. Most overweight women gain their excess weight after the onset of puberty This weight gain may be precipitated by a number of events, including pregnancy and menopause. Pregnancy weight gain during pregnancy and the effect of pregnancy on subsequent weight gain, are important events in the weight gain history of women. With aging body composition changes and height decreases affecting the interpretation of anthropometric data. Older persons generally have more fat than younger adults do at any given BMI, and absolute levels of WC indicate more visceral fat in older persons than in younger persons, because relatively more fat accumulates in the abdomen and less fat at the extremities as people age. There are many life style factors which leads to obesity. Some of them are as

The more people sit and watch television, the higher the risk of obesity.

Stopping Smoking:

Stop smoking is good for health but the effect of nicotine withdrawal on the body is one of the reasons why people who quit smoking tend to put on some weight after quitting is because their metabolism slows down in the absence of nicotine. when people stop smoking the weight gain is very common. People tend to pick at food and eat more in the few weeks and months following cessation of smoking. Smoking cessation increases the odds of obesity compared with non-smokers. Since the effect is so predictable, exercise programmes should be recommended for everyone giving up smoking.

Social Eating:

Social influences affect a person’s risk of obesity, and people whose close friends, parents, siblings or spouse become obese have a higher chance of becoming overweight themselves. This did not appear to be due to social class, smoking behavior and so on. It also includes obesity in children whose parents overeat and encourage their children to overeat by using sweets and foods as treats and rewards. This association with food as a reward can be the cause of comfort eating, and more seriously, binge eating, compulsive overeating and