Obesity

Obesity is a disease or a deviation by the network hoarding excessive body fat. This is different from overweight. Overweight is excess weight compared with the ideal weight. This can happen due to hoarding of fat or nonlemak network. Eating habits and physical activity have a bad diindetifikasi clearly as this causes health problems.

In the United States, 15% children aged 12-16 years experienced Obesity. According, Problems Obesity is serious need of attention because of the impact caused very knowledgeable. Kardiovaskular diseases such as hypertension, stroke, coronary heart occupies the first rank as a cause of death. And it is one of Obesity. "In addition, in children with Obesity and risk for type 2 diabetes exposed to also increase.

Obesity in adults is usually no relation to the Obesity in childhood. When children experience the risk Obesity Obesity in the future is much higher compared with children who are not in Obesity. Obesity So this must be prevented as early as possible since a baby, "said Rudi Hartono SpA dr Clinic's son. Obesity tends to the child have a heart bigger than children with normal body weight. Cholesterol is constantly increasing, and paste can accumulate in the blood vessel wall. Long run thick and impedes the flow of blood. Heart attack risk''will appear, but perhaps if a child discovered a new tread or mature teenagers. Meanwhile, the high salinity can cause high blood pressure,''said Rudi.

One of the other complications Obesity in children is a function of channel interference breath, known as obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). Obesity, in general, children experience ngorok and stopping the breath that result in behavioral disturbances and a decrease in school achievement. According to research Himpunan Obesity Indonesia (Hisobi) in a number of primary school in South Jakarta favorite shows Obesity prevalence in the children reach 20 percent. Concluded from the research of the three children experienced Obesity. Everything is related to the delivery of the wrong food, less physical activity, and lazy to move. Circulation of oxygen less smoothly in the body can lead to child-headed and fatigue so that learning achievement was declining. In addition to the impact of the physical body, Obesity in children can also affect psychiatric, child minder, and less so in the association. He was so ashamed tersingkir's various activities in schools or neighborhoods.

Pattern eat the wrong
Obesity is a threat of disease due to excess nutrients and harmful body metabolism. Cases occur due to Obesity Feed high energy, while the low energy output. According to Dr Dewi K Main Menteng Mother's Hospital, many factors cause their own, because of lifestyle changes and eating habits of one pattern to the child. "Sometimes parents give their children happy meal. Because the ads in the often tivi show the baby or child is bonny. In addition, children are now mengonsumsi food fast food (fast food), soft drink, and food that is full of fat and high berkolesterol. This is because of lazy parents cook food at home, "said Dewi.

He also other factors that continue to move less, now that many children happy sitting in front of television (playing games) so long that many children usually sit and children often eat small meals.

Child Obesity can also be due to genetic factors or the factors offspring. Children have the possibility of a 40% fat if one of their parents fat. Possible greater, 80%, if both parents fat. Usually, the mother who has a high sugar or diabetes mellitus is a disease (DM), will decrease the likelihood that the child was born so that the child is likely to be over weight (or the excess burden of obesity).

Knowledge of parents in Indonesia will Obesity a danger to the child is still quite low. "Many parents who feel happy to see a plump baby, fatty cheeks and parents often feel offended when their children spelled the lean to normal. When compared with children of friends of fat, so haunting sense of guilt. When the child is abnormal fat friend, "said Rudi. Lean for fear that parents sometimes give solid food since early.

Parents often give solid food too early under the age of three months or give formula milk with osmolarity (thickness) is too high. Solid food is given too early can damage the baby's digestive system, so that constipation relief. In addition to constipation, the baby is getting formula milk bottle because the diarrhea is often not sterile, the milk not in accordance with the needs of the baby, too hot, too cold, too thick or thin, the composition of nutrients in food that is not balanced so that the baby is given solid food early, appropriate analysis, dealing with the possibility of consecutive experience Obesity at the age of six years.

Many parents think that children crying because of hunger, so that parents rush to give formula milk because breastfeeding is not considered sufficient. Because fat is not parents thought their children less nutrition, opinions that often creep on society. Moreover, ad formula milk showing the baby fat, so it seems that drinking milk is then to be fat and plump. While new formula milk can be given to the child if he is aged 6 months.

Measuring Obesity

Obesity in the handling of children with different adults. Grown children on body weight does not go down because the children are still growing so the grown body weight stable. It is necessary for setting the correct pattern, diet and physical activity is also appropriate. Therefore, it is necessary collaboration with nutrition experts to prevent the deviation of double nutrition.
"If the children look so fat it's good to see a doctor consulted to assess the child so that they can grow and develop known whether or not to Obesity. Obesity is usually before, someone overweight first experience, but this had also requires the potential to become serious because of Obesity, "said Dewi.

There are some simple ways that can be done by parents to calculate the excess calories consumed per day children. According to one way is to reduce the current heavy weight on the same month last year. When the results around the 5kg calories should be reduced per day is about 100 calories, (or if 10 kg, which should be reduced proximately 200 calories / day), so that body weight does not increase until next year. As a result, with increasing high body weight while still a child, when a comparison is expected to be back to normal. This can be done with Feed reduce daily calories by reducing the portion of meal and snack.

To determine the normal or someone Obesity is using the Body Mass Index (IMT) of body weight (kg) divided by a high body (M2). "There is a graph that shows someone has been entering the stage obese or not, usually in a health clinic, health center is also available through the most When the child is high Obesity," said Dewi. Obesity is recommended that children do the diet, increasing physical activity, changing patterns of life, and in doing so not only on children but the parents also participate to do so.