Is it serious for a child to be fat?
Why do parents' misconceptions about weight ruin a child's life? Is it really that serious for a child to be fat? There really is. We can see what happens if the baby is too fat. Not to mention the unsightly and inflexible movements, let me talk about three far-reaching effects.
First, don't grow tall.
An excessive increase in fat cells can trigger endocrine disorders, which can lead to premature development of the child and premature closure of the epiphyseal line. When the epiphyseal line is closed, the child will not be able to grow longer. Therefore, if you want your child to grow taller, don't let him gain weight.
Second, a fat life.
Surveys show that obese children have a 42% and 63% chance of continuing to be obese in adulthood. Obese adolescents are 70% to 80% obese in adulthood. Note that the impact of this childhood overweight on future obesity occurs during the fetal period, infancy, childhood and adolescence, that is, throughout all stages of a child's life, from the mother's womb to the age of 18. To put it more bluntly, as long as you are fat before the age of 18, there is a high probability that you will continue to be fat for the rest of your life.
There is no so-called "youth fat" and "baby fat" at all, fat when you are a child is not the long body that many people think, it will most likely become really fat.
Why is that? In fact, the root cause is in the fat cells.
In our long life, there is only one period for the growth and development of fat cells, that is, before adulthood. In infancy, fat cells begin to multiply; By the time of puberty, the number is at its peak. From then on, this number will not change again. That's right, the number of fat cells in adulthood is fixed, and it doesn't get more or less. It doesn't matter if you're fat or thin, it's not the number of fat cells that changes, it's their size.
So it is conceivable that if a child is overnourished when he is a child and has more fat cells than others, then he will of course be more likely to gain weight than others when he grows up.
In addition to having a fixed growth period, fat cells actually have "memories".
If a person is nutritionally stimulated before adulthood, that is, during the growth and development of fat cells, such as being hungry for a long time, often eating very strongly, and eating a lot of particularly high-energy foods in a short period of time, whether it is malnutrition or overnutrition, the body will send signals to fat cells to overgrow.
Miraculously, fat cells "remember" this signal for a long time, and for the rest of their lives, they are more inclined to hoard energy and grow desperately. Isn't such a person just prone to obesity and is more likely to gain weight than others?
Third, and most insidious, it endangers a child's mental health.
Health surveys in schools tell us that obese children are more likely to be teased, bullied, and misfit. Parents often do not associate their children's weight with their withdrawn behavior, and always complain that their children are not active enough and do not socialize with others, which will exacerbate the psychological damage of children.
Children who suffer from this psychological damage often find solace from their favorite foods, which further deteriorates their weight and enters a vicious cycle of physical and psychological injuries.
Therefore, there is no so-called baby fat, and there is no youth fat, and the baby is fat when it is fat. A child's obesity is not only bad for the present, but also bad for the future, not good for physical development, and even worse for psychological development.