Childhood obesity month shines light on rising problem in US

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (KTNV) -- September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports one successful 5 children conflict with obesity

Kathleen Winston, dean of the University of Phoenix College of Nursing, says that fig has accrued drastically from astir 4% successful 1975.

"What's important to conscionable recognize is that this has been a long-standing problem," Winston said.

She says obesity, particularly among young people, tin marque breathing problems similar asthma and flu-like illnesses worse and summation the hazard of kids processing type-2 diabetes.

"Every organ of the assemblage is impacted erstwhile we are overweight," Winston said. "It becomes surrounded by the abdominous and the abdominous compresses those organs."

Winston says for astir kids losing value comes down to a elemental equation of consuming less calories than they expend done workout oregon play.

She said it's not ever casual for children to suffer weight, but parents tin physique bully habits into their regular docket to crook what immoderate kids would see enactment into a amusive activity.

"When we look astatine these examples of the past wherever children were extracurricular playing, they didn't deliberation astir that arsenic workout oregon a mode to support the value off. It was conscionable a lifestyle," she said.

Winston says preventing value summation is overmuch easier than attempting to interruption atrocious habits and shed the pounds particularly if kids are processing atrocious habits during a play wherever they're inactive processing mentally.

The champion mode to enactment with a kid connected their value issues without shaming them is to signifier bully habits arsenic a genitor on with them, according to Winston.

She says a fewer elemental tips to commencement a value nonaccomplishment travel is to marque kids devour 5 antithetic vegetables a time and bounds surface clip to a maximum of 2 hours a day.

This communicative was primitively reported by Sean DeLancey connected KTNV.com.