Childhood Obesity Prevention Strategies +37

Obesity Prevention Strategies presented by Astrakos’ society for public health, in this episode, we will teach you the childhood obesity prevention strategies, and how to secure your family from obesity, and what are the main factors that lead to it. Usually, the pathway of life course effected often, by many involved factors, such as society, neighborhood, family, the individual, area, the cellular levels, the physiological and psychological aspect, as well as, the social exposures.

Recently life course epidemiologists explain how a father’s social class, in childhood, may affect the biological functions and the development of the adults. That means we must be careful about our children and understand that the bad social exposures, can affect negatively the health of our children, especially in puberty. According to the world health organization, Everybody, less than 18 years of age, has the right of the child and considered as a child. That was adopted by the convention on the rights of the Child.

Childhood is the primary stage of life. What we eat, and do in childhood, has a big effect on adulthood life. Obesity is not only caused by food, but also by social aspects. Obesity rates have increased dramatically over the world in the last 30 years, the World Health Organization is raising the awareness about overweight, and obesity. Due to the increased number of obesity among children. In 2016, an estimated 42 million children under the age of 5, were overweight, or obese. Almost three-quarters of these, live in Asia and Africa. Overweight and obesity in early childhood, increase the risk for social discrimination, sleep apnea, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and obesity later in life.

Astrakos report is presenting a comprehensive and integrated package, of recommendations, to guide families to address childhood obesity. To create, healthy eating practices, and habits, to prevent obesity among children worldwide. Here we will summarize some key of actions, that are directed to the parents.

Childhood Obesity Prevention Strategies

Parents should promote the intake of healthy foods, which is rich in unsaturated fats, and omega 3, also food should be free from sugars or salt. Parents should also, reduce the intake of unhealthy foods at home.

The unhealthy foods are the foods, which are high in saturated fatty acids, trans- fats, and sugar-sweetened beverages, as well as the energy-dense foods, which have lots of calories per serving. The calories may come from protein, fat, or carbohydrates.

Inform your child, about childhood overweight and obesity, and tell l them about, the consequences of that on health and well-being.

Increase access to healthy foods at home.

Update your health information always, to get an effective prevention guide, of childhood obesity through the consumption of a healthy diet throughout the life course.

Ensure that nutrition information and guidelines for adolescents and children are delivered to adolescents and children in a simple, understandable, and, accessible manner.

Reduce the exposure of children and adolescents, to the power of the marketing of unhealthy foods.

Control the OBESOGENIC ENVIRONMENT, which promotes high energy intake, and sedentary behaviours. This includes the foods, that are available, affordable, accessible, and promoted.

Control the physical activity opportunities, and the social norms, concerning food, and physical activity

Develop nutrient profiles, to identify unhealthy foods and beverages

Guide caregivers, on appropriate nutrition, diet, and portion size.

Implement comprehensive programs, that promote physical activity, and reduce sedentary behaviors in children and adolescents

Promote healthy lifestyles, for young children through promoting physical activity, because physical activity, is known to reduce the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancers.

Improve children’s ability to learn their mental health, and well-being. Childhood experience can influence lifelong by physical activity behaviors.

Promote the benefits of physical activity.

Provide guidance to children and adolescents, on healthy body size, physical activity, sleep behaviors, and appropriate use of screen-based entertainment.

Pregnancy is a very critical pathway for child obesity. The risk of obesity can be passed from one generation to the next, because, maternal health, can influence fetal development, and the risk of a child becoming obese.

The care, that women receive before during, and after pregnancy, has profound implications for the later health, and development of their children.

Diagnose and manage hyperglycemia, and gestational hypertension.

Promote a varied diet with all macro and micronutrients.

Promote plant-based foods such as vegetables, fruit, potatoes, whole grain products.

Ensure that diet and nutrition counseling is included in antenatal care.

Avoid the use of and exposure to tobacco, alcohol, drugs, and other toxins.

Provide guidance on and support for, healthy diet, sleep, and physical activity, in early childhood, to ensure that children grow appropriately, and develop healthy habits.

Including the breastfeeding, for the first six months of life, because breastfeeding is the core for optimizing infant development.

Work on early detection, and management of obesity and its associated complications.

Address health nutrition for weight management

Give psychosocial support. The mental health needs of children who are overweight or obese are crucial, including issues of stigmatization and bullying, need to be given special attention.

Obesity can be increased by, the physical environment, such as proximity to grocery stores, vending machines, and access to school food and drink.

Share with your child the foods that contribute to healthy diets, if it is not consumed in appropriate amounts.

Use social media to provide guidance on and support for a healthy diet. Studies have been shown that social media is a perfect way to influence your child.

As a caregiver, be the con-founder that affects the association, not the mediator.

Consider that adolescents will tend to eat the foods, that are available, affordable, accessible, and promoted.

Parents could affect the adolescents’ food choices by the same tools, that have been applied to the adolescents, which is social media.

Obesity leads to bullying, and harassment, oppositional defiant disorder and, conduct disorder.

Improve the availability of mechanisms for purchasing foods from farms.

Plan a physical education at least two times a week.

Improve access to outdoor activity.

Stay in touch with the healthcare centre.

This was a presentation of the 37 key of actions, of Astrakos alexanders’ report, after reading all these keys, we on astrakos’ society we confirm that motivation is not enough, moving from motivation to actions could help much more. Also, we focus on parents, because parental values could affect the home environment, Parental values stand for the identity, that parents are caring, which usually impacted by personal thoughts and feeling. Furthermore, the perception that family receive from the public sources, selective services and education which include all, such as, internet, books, magazine, TV, and advertisement, as well as when parents, grandparents or friends undermine their rules over the children’s eating