Obesity will not only affect children's health,
It will also increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in adulthood.
In addition,
Once obesity occurs, it is difficult to reverse it.
Control the child's weight before the age of 6,
It can effectively prevent adults from getting fat in the future.
Kindergartens and families are the main battlefields to prevent and treat childhood obesity.
Do you know the main points of "prevention first, scientific regulation"?
Understand overweight and obese children
Overweight refers to10% ~19% of the corresponding height and weight; Obesity refers to more than 20%, of which 20%~29% is mild obesity, 30%~49% is moderate obesity, and more than 50% is severe obesity.
Obesity in children will affect their normal physical and psychological development. Childhood obesity increases the burden of cardiovascular system, laying a hidden danger for the formation of hypertension, coronary heart disease and diabetes in adulthood. In addition, obese children are not as flexible as other children in participating in sports games, and are prone to inferiority or negative psychology.
Diet, exercise, heredity, psychology, disease and other factors may lead to childhood obesity. Teachers and parents should carefully analyze the causes of obesity. For obesity caused by diseases and psychological factors, parents are advised to actively go to the hospital for treatment according to the cause.
Many children suffer from simple obesity because they eat too much and exercise too little. This kind of children are mainly prevented and treated through the combination of diet regulation, exercise training and behavior correction.
Treatment and nursing of obese children
Diet regulation
1. When children eat, on the premise of meeting the needs of growth and development, control the intake of high-fat and high-sugar foods, so that the intake of heat energy is lower than the actual consumption.
2. It is recommended to eat large but low-calorie foods, such as vegetables (bamboo shoots, lettuce, radish, etc.). ) contains more dietary fiber, low fruit sweetness and low lean meat fat.
3. properly control your child's food intake, you can drink a bowl of soup before meals to reduce the intake of staple food. Eat less and eat more, chew slowly, slow down eating and increase satiety. The habit of eating snacks and desserts before going to bed should be changed.
4. Before 1 month, aim at not gaining weight, and then let the weight gradually drop. With the growth of height, the degree of obesity is reduced and overweight is controlled.
cultivate
1. Exercise is an effective way to promote fat consumption in obese children, and aerobic exercise of whole body muscles should be chosen to move the center of gravity. Such as walking, brisk walking, ball games, skipping rope, kicking shuttlecock, climbing stairs, swimming, etc.
2. When choosing exercise, we should pay attention to factors such as systematicness, fun, children's love and long-term persistence. Moderate exercise intensity is enough. Warm-up preparations should be made before each exercise, and relaxation activities should be done after exercise.
3. Step by step, gradually increase the intensity of exercise and extend the exercise time. From the initial not less than 3-4 times a week, each time 10-30 minutes, increased to twice a day.
4. When exercising, ensure a safe amount of exercise by monitoring the heart rate (measuring pulse or heart rate). After children exercise, the maximum heart rate is usually 80%, and the pulse rate is 130~ 160 beats/min.
Generally speaking, sports training takes 2~3 months to be effective. Parents should accompany their children to exercise more, give them more encouragement, and let them stick to it every day to achieve the effect of losing weight step by step.
behavior modification
1. Pay attention to children's obesity and arrange three meals a day reasonably. Families don't store high-calorie snacks and drinks, and they don't treat snacks as rewards for good behavior.
2. Let children know the dangers of obesity and the necessity of controlling diet and exercise, so that children can change from passive weight loss to conscious participation.
Obese children usually don't like sports, so parents should change their original living habits. In addition to daily outdoor sports, children can also be helped to do housework at home to avoid sedentary.
Whether at home or in kindergarten, children should develop good defecation habits. The family should communicate regularly, cooperate with each other and record the child's status.
Send "Obese Children" in the background of WeChat, and you can get the "Management Form of Weak Children and Obese Children" for teachers and parents to record.
It is forbidden to lose weight by improper means, such as starving, taking medicine and eating only vegetables.
How to prevent childhood obesity
What about kindergarten?
1. Ensure that children have regular physical examinations, and teachers should focus on managing overweight children.
2. Strengthen family cooperation, give parents correct and scientific parenting knowledge, make parents pay attention to the harm of childhood obesity, and work with teachers to correct children's bad eating habits and lifestyles.
3. Let children insist on outdoor exercise, with a single moderate-intensity exercise of not less than 15 minutes and a total time of not less than 45 minutes per day.
4. On the basis of ensuring the basic needs of children's growth and development and the balance of dietary nutrition, prevent children from eating too much fat. Guide parents to choose "green food", eat less "yellow food" and try not to eat "red food"