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Childhood Obesity
Obesity is the state of bang seriously overweight to a degree that affects your health. Obesity in childhood is linked to many health complications and tends to indicate the child will be obese as an adult.
What are the Effects of Obesity?
Overweight and obese kids are at risk for developing medical problems that affect their present and future health and quality of life. including
• High blood pressure. high cholesterol and abnormal blood lipid levels, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes, fatty liver — all once considered exclusively adult diseases
• Bone and joint problems
• increase the chances of developing asthma
• Restless or disordered sleep patients
• Liver and gall bladder disease
• Obese kids may also be prone to low self-esteem that sterns from being teased, bullied, or rejected by peers
• Cardiovascular risk factors present in childhood (including high blood pressure, high cholesterol. and diabetes) can lead to serious medical problems like heart disease, heart failure, and stroke as adults
What Causes Children to Become Ovens eight?
Children become overweight for a variety of reasons. The most common causes are unhealthy eating patterns, lack of physical activity, genetic factors or a combination of these factors
How’s it diagnosed?
A child’s body mass index (BNB) is calculated using the same method as for adults – but to determine whether a child is overweight or obese, specific age-adjusted charts are needed
What’s the treatment?
If you’re worried your child is overweight. Talk to your doctor and ask for help from a dietician Avoid starting your child on an aggressive diet instead, make tong-term changes to healthy eating for all the family, and get your child involved in won or exercise
How can I help my child eat a more healthy diet?
• Reduce unhealthy foods
• Choose a variety of foods
• Saves variety of fruits and vegetables daily
• Repeal the “clean your plate” rule
• Encourage your child to eat
• Involve children in food shopping and preparing meals
• Plan for healthy snacks
• Discourage eating meals or snacks while watching TV.
• In not to use food to punish or reward your child
• Teach your family healthy eating habits
• increase your family’s physical activity.
• Be a good role model
Remedies of COUGH & COLD. or How to prevent child from cough & cold?
Its a common disease. Major disease of cough & colds are done by infection or virus. So there is no available perfectly or exact medecine in the market. Most of the cold & cough are take maximu one week time to recover. The medicines & serup which are availabe in market is just relief or ease for temporary. Antibiotic medicine, strong cough serup and heavy steroid tablets are only for injurious to our body and take a disease for long time. So doctors are giving advise to avoid it. If child is suffer from cold & cough for nominal stage, its not a good habit for take a antibiotic medicines immediate as remedies. Go for grand mother remedies or household remedies or ayurvedic remedy. like
1) Make a plaster of besmear of bisup weed seed on a chest and stumuch or smoke a cigarate, which are stuff with bisup weed seed.
2) Besmear a Vicks on chest.
3) Give a maximum rest to child at home.
4) Give a mineral & Clean water.
5) For a mouth refreshner, give a lemon juise without sugar.
6) Dont go for diet, Give a food as a daily bases.
7) If possible, then give steam.
If nose will block then just put 2-3 drops of castor oil in nose.
What would happen if a baby got swine flu?
I am so scared as a few cases of it have been confirmed in Doncaster where i live.
I know most cases are very mild, but i’m so scared in case my 7 month old gets it and my 2 year old.
My friend got flu like symptoms and was advised by the doctor to stay in for 5 days, and he prescribed her Tami-flu in case it was swine flu.
She came back from the carribean 2 weeks ago so the doctor didn’t want to take any risks.
But i am so terrified for my babies, Anybody any idea?
