Writer: Mingzhu
Editor: Liu Yingjuan
Finalized: Su Zihou
According to the “Report on Childhood Obesity in China”, the rate of overweight and obesity among Chinese children is currently on the rise. The overweight rate is higher than the obesity rate; males are higher than females, and the urban is higher than rural; children of different genders and ages are mainly obese. With age, moderate and severe obesity gradually increase, and severe obesity mainly occurs in After 3 years old.
Child obesity is a hot topic, which is directly related to the health of the body. If parents do not pay more attention to keep their children obese, it will be difficult to have good results in the end. Various problems and diseases will follow. It will be difficult to bear the weight.
The fattest child in the world, the current situation is worrying
According to the “Daily Mail” report, a young Indonesian boy was born about 3.5 kg, which is the weight of a normal child, but According to his mother, the child’s weight increased sharply to 20 kg when he was 2 months old and 56 kg at 10 months, which is three times the weight of a child of the same age. It can wear the clothes of an 8-year-old child. baby".
The pictures are all from the Internet. The graphics and text are irrelevant.
According to the parents, the son has a very good appetite since he was young. Food, which caused his weight to swell like an inflated balloon. At the age of 10, he weighed 384 kg. He was called "the fattest child in the world" by foreign media. For this reason, he became famous and was invited. On TV shows.
Due to the obesity of the body, the child’s daily life and health are threatened. In a TV show, the boy fainted directly to the ground. After a doctor’s examination, the level of thyroid-stimulating hormone in his body was very high and he was suffering from it. One of the most serious obesity in the world, if you let it continue to get fat, you are prone to risk of cardiovascular disease or stroke, and even life threatening.
For this, the family finally realized the seriousness, so he followed the doctor’s advice and asked his son to go on a diet + exercise to lose weight, but it was difficult to achieve results, and was eventually forced to undergo gastrectomy. With diet and exercise, he lost 204 pounds in just two years.
Although it did achieve the effect of weight loss, there is a new test coming-rapid weight loss caused large areas of sagging skin and epidermis all over the child, looking like an old man in his seventies or eighties, and they cannot Self-elimination can only be removed by surgery, and gastrectomy has caused some damage to health.
It can be seen that childhood obesity must be strangled in the cradle. When a child shows signs of obesity, parents must stop it in time. How does judge child obesity?
First calculate the normal weight standard:
1~6 months weight (kg) = birth weight + month age*0.6
7~12 Weight at month (kg) = weight at birth + age in months *0.5
Weight at 2~12 years (kg) = age*2+7 (or 8)
If the weight at birth is 3kg, the child is now 5 years old, so his weight should be 5*2+7(8)=17~18kg (34~36 kg).
Then calculate the baby’s body mass index = actual weight (kg)/standard weight (kg), a body weight index of 1.2 is an obese baby, a weight index of 1.2 to 1.3 is mildly obese, and a weight of 1.3 to 1.5 is moderate Obesity, 1.5 or more is severely obese.
If the actual weight of a 5-year-old child is 25kg and the standard weight is 18kg, then his body mass index = 25/18 = 1.38, it is moderately obese.
How much do you know about the hazards of childhood obesity?
Combined with the situation in my country, the obesity rate and overweight rate of children aged 3 to 6 are already the highest in the worldOne of the most serious countries, obesity and overweight are already the most serious threats to the growth of Chinese children , what are the harms of childhood obesity?
1, affects mental development
Researchers compared normal-weight and obese children and found that: obese children’s activity, learning and communication skills are all It is lower than that of children with normal weight. Obese children's academic performance, test scores and other indicators are significantly lower than children with normal weight.
Children’s obesity is positively correlated with slow mental development. Because obesity can easily lead to insufficiency of cardiopulmonary function and insufficient oxygen supply to the brain, it can cause mental retardation.
2. The probability of suffering from diabetes and cardiovascular disease is high.
The study found that diabetes in children is related to obesity. Affected by obesity, insulin secretion will be abnormal, and the body cannot be superfluous in time. The carbohydrates are metabolized, and diabetes may appear.
According to epidemiological surveys, the incidence of type I and type II diabetes in children in my country is 98 per 100,000 and 8 per 100,000 respectively. The risk of developing type 2 diabetes in obese children is 4 times that of normal-weight children, and obese children account for 47.1% of type 2 diabetes patients.
Obesity in children easily leads to changes in the structure of the heart, changes in hemodynamics lead to involvement of the cardiovascular system, and symptoms such as sleep apnea, pulmonary insufficiency, and pulmonary hypertension are all related to obesity.
3. Obese children are susceptible to heart disease
Heart disease In addition to genetics and family history, heart disease caused by obesity accounts for about 60%, and obese children suffer from heart disease. The probability of illness is 3 to 5 times higher than that of normal children. This is because the myocardium of obese children will be hypertrophic, which may affect their myocardial contraction and pumping function and become a person at high risk of heart disease.
