Television Cause Obesity among Children
Have you ever heard that television cause obesity among children? How can television cause obesity among children? What can you do to help your obesity children?
Right now childhood obesity problem in the world is increase. . Around 15.5 percent of adolescents in the United States, aged 12 to 19 are obese. Even more alarming, about 15.3 percent of children ages 6 to 11 are obese. Obesity leads to serious health complications, even in young children. (Read: Medical Problems with child Obesity)
There are a few factors that can cause obesity in children:
-Your family lifestyle habits are important to cause obesity.
-Give food as a reward or bribe to your children.
-Lack of physical activity.
-Eating large mount of food and incessant snacking (non-nutritious snack)
-Eat while watching television.
Today’s children make up the digital generation. They’ve been surrounded by computers their entire life and are not as physically active as children of past generations were. Instead of going outside and playing, they tend to hang out indoors, watching TV and playing computer and video games. Along with lack of physical activity comes the convenience of fast food. There are fast food restaurants virtually around every corner, and they have easy access to snack foods full of saturated fats and sugars.
Did you know that American children ages 2-17 spend an average of 19 hours, 40 minutes watching TV each week? American youth watch an average of 1,023 hours of TV yearly, while they only spend about 900 hours in school.
Since so much of our time growing up is spent watching TV, and so many parents use TV to entertain and “baby-sit,” much of our earliest learning and world perspectives are formed while sitting in front of a TV screen.
And when children watch television, usually they eat some snack or non-nutritious snack while watching and never stop to chewing something in their mouth. So don’t let your children eat while watching television.
It’s important for parents to be role models to their children and emphasize the importance of physical activity and healthy eating.
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