What is childhood obesity and why is it caused?
Childhood obesity is nothing but obesity seen in children. These children have extra fat in their bodies. It is a known fact that extra body fat is harmful and can lead to many heath related problems like heart attack, blood pressure, high amounts of cholesterol, diabetes, hepatitis, some types of cancer, etc. But what is distressing is that all these health problems are now also seen in children. And the main culprit behind this is found to be childhood obesity. Today’s generation parents hardly find any time to take a special care of their kids. They generally overlook certain matters like food habits and the participation of the kids in the physical activities. These kids have been found to spend most of the time playing games in their costly cum highly configured gadgets and personal computers. And also they are not restricted from binging on their favorite fast foods like burgers and pizzas. All these things have a very severe effect of the health of these kids. Due to the less ph