What causes children and teens to become overweight?
The following are some of the factors that may contribute to overweight adolescents: • easy availability of food, especially high-calorie snack food • parents’ attitudes towards food • an increase in the eating of fast-foods • using food as a reward or to change behaviors • lack of exercise • television watching and snacking • not knowing how to eat healthy • heredity (the size of parents and other family members )
