What is childhood obesity and what are the reasons for its causal?
Obesity is nothing but extra fat in the body. This fat gets deposited when a person eats more and spends fewer calories. Obesity is a problem that is generally seen in adults. But several studies have shown that obesity is also affecting infants. Obesity seen in children is termed as childhood obesity. Childhood obesity is because of two main reasons. One being consuming calorie rich food and other is less or no physical activity. Kids of today’s generation spend most of the time in front of TV’s and computers. There are very few kids who take part in the sports. Most of them are prevented from playing outdoors by their parents thinking that they will get hurt. Such kids hardly spend any calories and all these calories get deposited in the body as fat. And other main reason is consuming fast foods. Fast foods have absolutely no nutritious value but have very high amounts of calories. Parents of such kids who are busy most of the time with their respective careers overlook these matters
