
Healthy Habits Start Early :Fight Childhood Lifestyle Diseases
In today’s world, it’s easy to fall into unhealthy habits. That’s why it’s more important than ever to raise healthy children for a sustainable and healthy future. Childhood obesity is a serious issue that can lead to lifelong health problems such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. However, it’s not too late to make a change. By implementing lifestyle interventions early on, we can prevent childhood obesity and promote a healthy energy balance that can last a lifetime.
To ensure a healthy future for our children, doctors must act as child advocates during this crucial period of life. Obesity can cause major complications that affect almost all organ systems, so it’s essential to address it as soon as possible. Together, we can prevent, diagnose, and treat childhood obesity before it progresses to adulthood and causes more severe health issues. Let’s work towards a healthier future for our children!”Raising healthy children for a sustainable and healthy future”
To stay healthy is a matter of choice in today’s world of unhealthy choices
Children who are overweight have a higher probability of remaining obese into adulthood and developing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases earlier in life. Lifestyle interventions from a younger age prevent childhood obesity and help to achieve an energy balance that can be continued throughout an individual’s lifespan.
Impact of Childhood Obesity on Immunity
- Chronic Low-Grade Inflammation: Excess adipose tissue associated with obesity frequently results in a state of chronic low-grade inflammation that can compromise immune system performance.
- A Greater Propensity to Contract Infections
Increased Infection Risk: Obese children are at higher risk of contracting pneumonia and influenza. Chronic inflammation and compromised immune responses are partially to blame for this.
Reaction to Vaccines: Being obese may reduce the effectiveness of vaccinations by impairing immune function and decreasing immunity to disease. - Metabolic Syndrome: Metabolic syndrome in childhood is a cluster of conditions that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes. It’s becoming more recognized as childhood obesity rates rise.Abdominal Obesity is one of the most important visible component that leads to metabolic syndrome.