If the choices as a family are empty calories -high calories with no nutrients- such as sweetened beverages, the blood sugar level elevates blood insulin at any age. Being overweight is the beginning of many risks for children's health. Poor health is an effect of poor diet and low nutrients in each meal, along with rich calorie intake all day from fat in food and sugar in drinks. Parents relay on quick and easy beverages their children's water intake.
Low physical performance at every activity is the reality of many families; this can be a consequence of non-healthy food and habits at home. Even if some childhood obesity's effects are immediate parents should better be concern about the long term impacts. Cardiovascular disease, such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure is affecting 70% of obese children. Bones and joints problems, occasional sleeplessness, anxiety and stress, and low self esteem are major effects on obese kids. All this leads to kids with adults' illness, including heart disease, diabetes, and sort of cancer. Do we want this for the youngest of the family?
The lifestyle of children is set-up and controlled by parents. As decision makers, parent must evaluate weight management issues among their children and must take it seriously as a family project. Parents’ concern often is whether their child is too young to put him / her on diet. When parents make simple dietary adjustments step by step, the family weight management gets under control. Mom and dad can do the work one pound at a time.
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