Bunking classes and school is a common activity among school-going children. So, few parents get concerned with their such deeds. But, want concern is now growing importance for parents at all corners of the world is their child’s going overweight or obese.
But, do you know that there is strong link between a child’s obesity and his missing classes? Though apparently unbelievable, am sure you can’t afford to ignore the new finding!
According to a new study, compared to their normal-weight classmates, obese elementary schoolchildren tend to miss a couple more school days on average. Thus, obesity leading to missing out classes can onset a couples of other problems - like all those alternatives to bunking classes like resorting to drugs, inheriting health and social problems like AIDS and pregnancy among teens!
Andrew B. Geier, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and lead author of the study said,
At this early age to show that already they’re missing school, and missing school is such a major setup for big-time problems, that’s something school policy people have to know.
To add to the worries of the teens’ and schoolchildren’s parents, obesity rates have been found to have nearly quintupled among 6- to 11-year-olds and tripled among teens and children ages 2 to 5 since the 1970s!
This figure is really alarming. Besides, health crisis ‘obesity’ seems to be a welcome element for a plethora of negative outcomes! This finding, am sure, is enough for you to gear up with planning your child’s healthy-weight lifestyle.
