Early Childhood Obesity In Young Children

Obesity has been around since the late 1900's, but is gradually increasing. It is mostly affecting young children and young adults. Many families think their child is healthy if the child eats more than they should be eating. Especially, if the parents come from a different generation, they believe that seeing their child with full thick skin that they are healthy. So what types of problems are happening with early childhood obesity? Obesity can be caused easily without people realizing it, and it may harm them in a way that they might not understand in the future. We may not notice, but it's affecting young children in our daily lives. Childhood obesity follows young children up to their adulthood. Many children in America suffer from Childhood obesity, we must educate people about the bad eating habits, lack of exercise, and their parents' genetics children have at an early age.
One factor that causes obesity in young children is bad eating habits. Bad eating habits can be caused by eating fast food constantly, or parents, peer pressure their child to finish their meal completely when the child is full. Study tells us that, "One of the most disturbing observations about overweight and obesity in the United states the epidemic of supersized (overweight and obese) kids". This proves that many children across the U.S. binge
Young children usually exercise more than adults because children play outside more than an hour. These days children now play games inside of their homes and don’t get enough exercise at home or at school. In fact, study shows the number of children that don’t get enough exercise, "More than one-third of all kids in the U.S. today remain overweight or obese. One factor - they don't get enough exercise at school". This shows us that not only is there one-third of children overweight, but it proves that many children don’t get much physical activity daily every