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Overweight Children
Eleven year old children now have a lot more to
be concerned with than just getting through school. Research has
been carried out and found that eleven is a crucial age for
overweight children. If they are overweight at this age then they
will carry it into their adult lives.
These children are learning in school subjects that will see them
through life, but they are also learning life skills of how to be
obese and have many medical problems for the rest of their adult
life. They will learn all about the yo-yo diet and the damage that
can do to their health. Self esteem will plummet as they become more
and more overweight until they are morbidly obese. Depression will
be seen until they become so depressed they won’t want to go
outdoors for fear of people seeing them. Fear will be another skill
they will be learning. There are so many lessons these eleven year
old will be taking into their adult lives.
They are not being taught the skills to live a healthy lifestyle.
They are not being taught how to cook a basic healthy meal. As many
parents don’t cook and live on fast food or microwave food, how do
they expect their children to cook as adults? They have never
experienced eating vegetables unless you count fries or chips as a
vegetable. As far as a carrot; broccoli; cauliflower and many more
they often have no idea what they are, never mind knowing what they
taste like.
If you take a look at a family out together if the parents are obese
then it is more than likely the children will be as well. These
eleven years old will end up weighing more than their parents unless
some action is taken soon.
Childhood obesity is on the increase and will continue unless
something is done to stop it. Children of eleven have enough
problems with the changes in their lives and school without the
added pressure of obesity and bad health in the future. It is every
adult’s responsibility to take on the task of starting to educate
these eleven year olds and see them not get into a cycle of gaining
weight, and then having to lose it. Then find they have gained more
weight and need to have to work harder to lose that weight until one
day they stop trying because it is too hard.
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