Obese Kids, Facts, Prevention and Solutions

Obesity or over nutrition is a generalized and excessive accumulation of fat in subcutaneous and other tissues. Obesity in childhood is not a disease but rather a symptom complex having a weak association with adult obesity with its correlates of increased mortality, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemias, liver diseases, cholelithiasis, and adult-onset diabetes. Factors related to the occurrence of overweight and obesity are multifactorial in nature with the exception of certain single gene disorders associated with human obesity (Prader-Willi, Bardet-Biedl, and Cohen syndromes). Some of known factors include: - Repeated and uncritical offering of a bottle as a method of dealing with a fretful or crying infant may

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