The rate of childhood obesity has doubled in 30 years, resulting in obese adults to be affected with serious diseases such as diabetes, cancer, heart diseases and mental illness also.
Parents play vital role in making their children obese. They provide child with junk food such as pizza, hamburger rather than vegetables. Beside eatables, they take obesity of child to be normal considering child has to be like that.
The parents must be aware of the influence of obesity on child. Nutritious food must be the main priority of parents towards child. They must promote physical exercises and limit the time their child spend in front of TV and computer, helping them stay fit and active. The obesity of parents also impacts the child’s obesity to 60 percent.
As quoted by Ivonne Gutierrez, center assistant with Head Start in Indianapolis:
It affects their learning in a certain way. They have more difficulty. It could be that their minds are more into food than into school.
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