Child Obesity : Symptoms

SYMPTOMS:

One of the common symptoms includes change in facial features with excessive fat on the cheeks and bulging out abdomen. Puberty in obese children may cause earlier than the normal weight child

1. Clothes feeling tighter
2. Waist circumference (keeping in mind height)
3. Areas of fat deposits
4. Large body frame
5. Difficulty in performing normal activities
6. Lethargic actions
7. Occurrence of breathlessness

Parents are the one who can look after their children to prevent this ailment from occurring in their kid's body.

1. Breastfeeding during infancy is advisable rather than feeding solid food, this can prevent obesity to larger scale.

2. Parents should make their children involved in more of physical activities rather than indoor activities and should make them eat low fat snacks and avoiding junk food.

3. Older children should be told to get into more exercises and follow regime if possible with proper diet plan, so that proper growth doesn't get hinder.

The more obese one is during childhood the more prone his/her body become to serious health diseases like high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiac problems etc. in the later stages of life.