Childhood Obesity

What is obesity?

This is the excesive accumulation of body fat, especially adipose tissue, and that can be perceived by the body weight gain when it reaches 20% over ieal weight for age, height, and sex of the person concerned. To calculate the ideal weight of a child between 2 and 5 years of age, albeit only approsimate, multiply the age in years two and eight.

Overweight children

For many families, having a child fat, plum, and full of fold is quite an achievemen, a sign that the child is well, strong and full of health, but, experts in child nutrition don't think like. And more will they say that these families are very wrong. What matters is not the child is fat or thin. What matters is that the child is healty. At the last National Day of Obesity and Cardiovasuclar Risk Factors, held in Madrid Spain, was diagnosed with chilhood obesity as an emerging disease. Both in Europe and the United States since the ninties until today, the incidence of childhood obesity has doubed.

What and how much can eat a child

There is not exact the amount of food they should eat. Every child is a different world and their wants and needs different things and kinds of food. You can not force them to eat more or less. Normally, children eat more than girls, but, in a matter of appetite can not be generalized.