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Survey of Childhood Obesity Data

Data from China Center for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the number of obese people under the age of 18 in my country has reached 120 million, of which 12% are overweight.

The childhood obesity rate in my country is rising rapidly, and the childhood obesity rate has increased from 8.5% in 2010 to 12% in 2012.

70% of obese children continue to become adult obese, and 20% of overweight children develop adult obesity.

The detection rate of fatty liver in obese children is as high as 10.2%, 51 times that of normal-weight children. The detection rate of abdominal obese children with large bellies is even higher, reaching 12%.

Formula for calculating child body mass index

Standard weight = age x 2 + 8

Mild obesity: 20% -30% above standard weight

Moderate obesity: 40% -50% above standard weight

Severe obesity: More than 50% of standard weight

Normal rate of weight gain in children

1. Infant period is an accelerated period of growth and development. After one year of age, the growth rate slows down, with an annual increase of 2.5-3.0kg, with an average monthly increase of 0.25kg. By the age of two, the weight is about 12kg, which is four times that of birth. After the age of 2, the weight gain is slower, with an annual increase of about 2.3 kg, and the growth rate tends to slow down.

2. A rough estimate of height and weight from 2 years old to pre-puberty (6 years old) is calculated as follows: 2 years old to pre-puberty weight (kg)= age multiplied by 2+7 (or 8)

3. Childhood and adolescence is a critical period for the transition from children to adults. It can be divided into school-age period (6-12 years old) and adolescent or adolescent period (13-18 years old). School age weight can increase by 2-2.5kg per year, and adolescent weight can increase by 4- 5kg per year.

Causes of childhood obesity

1. Eating too much and having too much nutrition. Nowadays, children's food is becoming more and more abundant, and children's autonomy in choosing food is also enhanced. Many children often eat a large amount of high-fat diet and sweets, and especially like to eat snacks and drink sweet drinks. Many children prefer fast-food foods such as frying and hamburgers, which are one of the important factors leading to childhood obesity.

2. Exercise too little. Nowadays, children have less and less exercise time. This is because children's study burden is getting heavier and heavier. In addition, parents are eager to see their children succeed, adding a lot of extracurricular learning to their children and squeezing out a lot of children's activity time. In addition, even extracurricular activities, there are fewer and fewer physical activities and more static activities. Long-term non-exercise will cause excess nutrients in the body to be converted into fat. Fat children do not like exercise, and children who do not like exercise become fatter, resulting in a vicious cycle.

3. Socio-psychological factors. Many parents believe that children are healthy when they are fat, and try their best to get their children to eat more, hoping that their children will be white and fat. In addition, studies have shown that if children are under excessive homework pressure, or have unsatisfactory academic performance and are mentally nervous for a long time, they will consciously or unintentionally eat more snacks to relieve their mental stress. In the long run, obesity will occur.

The dangers of childhood obesity

High blood lipids-The blood lipids in obese children are significantly higher than those in normal children, and dyslipidemia is a high-risk factor for atherosclerosis.

Predisposing to hypertension-Childhood hypertension refers to the blood pressure of preschool children being higher than 110/70mmHg, school-age children being higher than 120/80mmHg, and the blood pressure of over 12 years old being higher than 130/90mmHg. Obese children are three times more likely to develop high blood pressure than non-obese children. Because the body size of obese children increases, the total metabolic volume and body oxygen consumption increase, which significantly increases the burden on the heart and increases blood pressure.

Hyperinsulinemia-Obese children are common in hyperinsulinemia. In order to maintain glucose metabolism needs, they are forced to secrete large amounts of insulin for a long time, resulting in failure of the islet secretion function and causing diabetes.

Easy to induce fatty liver-the incidence of fatty liver in severely obese children is as high as 80%. Childhood obesity is an important risk factor for inducing fatty liver. Hypertension and hyperlipidemia are dangerous signals for fatty liver in obese children.

Childhood obesity and fatty liver

Fatty liver in children is a disease caused by the liver's failure to properly process fat in a timely manner, causing fat to accumulate on the liver. Fat accumulation can hinder the liver from performing normal functions, increase the burden on the liver, and symptoms such as hepatitis and elevated alanine aminotransferase normal value of transaminases is less than 40u. Severe fat accumulation can cause liver cells to squeeze each other, leading to hypoxia in liver cells, rupture and death, causing serious damage to the liver.

From the perspective of eating habits, obese children generally prefer high-calorie and high-fat foods. For example, big fish meat has a lot of fat. After eating, the amount of chylous granules in the blood will increase. When chylous granules increase, triglycerides in the blood will increase. At the same time, liver, fat and other tissues synthesize triglycerides and store them in fat tissue.

From the perspective of sports, according to statistics, children aged 7 to 12 spend an average of two hours watching TV, half an hour on the computer, and 40 minutes reading comics every day. On holidays, they spend as long as 3 hours and 50 minutes watching TV. There are few outdoor activities or physical exercise behaviors. Long-term non-exercise will cause excess nutrients in the body to be converted into fat. When these fat is deposited under the skin, it is manifested as obesity, and when these fat is deposited in the liver, it is manifested as fatty liver.

Obese children suffer from symptoms of fatty liver

Children with fatty liver are very different in appearance from healthy children. They are characterized by central obesity, which means that there is a lot of meat on their stomachs and relatively little fat on their limbs. If the child is white and fat, has a big belly, and has soft flesh, 90% are children with fatty liver. When this situation occurs, it is best to seek medical treatment immediately.