As adults and parents good child nutrition is our responsibility. Children are our future, and they deserve the best possible start in life.
One of the most important things you can do for your children is to bring them up on a healthy diet, because a strong nutritional foundation will give them highest chance of remaining healthy later.
It also gives them the tools they need in order to maximize their potential in every area of life: academically, emotionally, socially, and in sport. In addition, good child nutrition and a healthy eating pattern in early life will help your child develop good dietary habits later.
Obesity is a rising problem in all parts of the world, because of a lack of exercise and the unhealthy diet many people consume.
In addition, our food no longer contains all the nutrients it should, because it’s subject to long storage periods and chemical intervention; it’s grown in poor quality soil, and is often processed. This kind of junk food only offers us ‘empty calories’ with low nutritional content, and high levels of salt and fat.
Surprisingly perhaps, most overweight and obese people, including kids, are malnourished! That’s because to be ‘malnourished’ means the body is not getting the nutrients it needs in order to be healthy, and most obese people are eating the wrong foods, and putting unnecessary strain on their organs, which means everything works less efficiently and they don’t absorb the nutrients they need.
They’re also struggling against a load of oxidative stress as the body tries to cope with ‘poisonous’ elements of junk food and can’t sweep out free radicals produced by its own metabolic processes.
Problems of Childhood obesity
Whole range of other problems