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Smart Eating To Battle Childhood Obesity

There is finally an answer emerging to help families with their childhood obesity issues. For the thousands of children and their families who are presently battling with childhood obesity, this excellent news is long awaited. Indeed, the risk factors for childhood obesity read like a checklist of ailments that only a generation ago would never have been linked to children and diet: heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and of course, social ridicule and alienation [i]. This latter consequence of childhood obesity — ridicule and alienation — has the dual effect of damaging a child both physically and emotionally far beyond childhood, and possibly for the rest of his or her natural life. Many medical experts believe a multi-faceted strategy will help reduce the epidemic. It has been clear that any long-term answer should be fought on four fronts: physical activity, sedentary behavior, socioeconomic status, and eating habits [ii]. Yet there’s room for one more pillar; or, at the very least, the identification of another element that must be part of any lasting solution. This fifth pillar, or undiscovered element, is sensible nutritional supplements. Smart eating is one of the essential ways of overcoming childhood obesity. This is easier said than done; particularly when emotional eating or an unobserved food addiction [1] could fuel adverse eating habits. “Eating smart” can sometimes not be a realistic goal. Although children can be provided with wholesome foods, they might not actually enjoy eating them. It is this latter criterion that most well-intentioned specialists and caregivers overlook. This is explained below. Many children are actually willing to learn and are quitet obedient. Some of those children even have outstanding support from their well-adjusted families who dutifully remove the usual suspects of chips, soft drinks, chocolate bars, and other damaging foods from the home. Yet many of those same children continue to gain weight and march ever closer to the litany of health defects noted above. These children are not doing this to themselves. Many obese children even understand that their weight is unhealthy for them. They proceed to snack in secret, however, and undo the efforts of their family to keep them healthy. The problem is one of food selection. Generally speaking, children of all weights and shapes will not eat something that they do not like. For obese children who have typically had unfettered access to extremely stimulating foods such as gravies and sugar-loaded soft drinks, the willpower to eat unpalatable foods is undeveloped. Indeed, the dietician could snack away on carrots and celery while speaking to an obese child about the importance of eating smart. Obese children normally feel that these are foreign foods and won’t understand how to include them in their daily routines. This need for good tasting nutritional supplements has prompted the scientific community to begin looking at what it had ignored before. As stunningly obvious – even axiomatic – as this seems, it has been lost on many experts until recently. A solution is beginning to gain energy. Forward-thinking corporations that understand their customers are creating low-calorie, highly nutritious foods fortified with life-sustaining vitamins and protein. Companies now understand that their customers will eat extremely nutritious and low calorie foods that contain vitamins and minerals as long as they taste good. Companies including MetRx™, Experimental and Applied Sciences™, Protica Research™, and others develop products that fit well within these requirements. Granted, a healthy diet doesn’t begin or end with nutritional supplements. A healthy diet employs nutritional supplements to complement and fortify real foods. Indeed, children and families affected by the obesity epidemic in America are cautiously optimistic at this point; after all, they’ve been promised solutions in the past. This new generation of nutritional supplements can help even the most skeptical of parents become somewhat optimistic and even help their child recuperate from being obese. REFERENCES [i] Source: “The Problem of Overweight in Children and Adolescents”. The US Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity/calltoaction/fact_adolescents.htm [ii] Source: “Childhood Obesity”. American Obesity Association. http://www.obesity.org/subs/childhood/causes.shtml

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