The More Your Tots Grow, The Less Exercise They Get – New Study

Wonderful, just what parents need. As if the child and adolescent obesity problem wasn’t enough!

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 15-year-olds got less than a third of the recommended level of exercise for their age. On the other hand, 90 percent of the children aged 9 and 11 met the recommended levels of exercise for their age.

This is serious reason to be alarmed parents, especially because once children slip into adolescence, they are less impressionable where instilling healthy weight habits are concerned. Considering that puberty is the main time for bones and muscles to achieve a solid growth, maintaining a healthy diet and exercise pattern for your child becomes even more imperative.

The federal issued Dietary Guidelines for Americans considers it essential that children and adolescents spend at least 60 minutes of physical activity for seven days a week. While this is no doubt going to help them establish a healthy weight loss and weight control pattern in their later years, it will surely help their developing bodies.

Do not ignore the rising threat of obesity parents, look for healthy weight loss diet and weight loss personal training options like the ones offered by Body Makeovers through the Children’s Program.

An Overdose Of Over-zealous Weight Loss:

Way back in 2006 Nicole Ritchie had gone terrifyingly thin courtesy a herb known as Hoodia which deludes your brain into thinking you are constantly full and thus curbing hunger pangs. Ritchie went from a size 2 to 0 in no time and looked absolutely skinny.

A lot of people in the glamor and beauty business have dabbled in diet pills and weight loss pills from time to time. Some have gone critically ill and some have even died from an overdose. But that doesn’t stop thousands of others from resorting to similar weight loss methods.

The most recent entrant into this possibly unhealthy habit is the diet pill alli, touted as the first and only FDA approved over-the-counter weight loss product. The pill website claims that if taken responsibly (by following the plan laid out) alli can increase weight loss by 50 percent.

But it’s important to wait and take stock of diet drugs and supplements like alli and evaluate their possible side-effects. As a healthy weight loss method, alli falls short since it causes diarrhea whenever rich food is consumed.

To their credit, the manufacturers of the drug press people to use the drug as a supplement to a healthy weight loss diet that is calorie-controlled. Maintaining a regular exercise plan also helps.

There’s no doubt about it, diet supplements and weight loss drugs are only as good as the effort put into healthy weight loss. If you follow a fixed exercise plan and a healthy weight loss diet, there is no need to spend any more money on OTC drugs that promise less.

The Skinny On Being Healthy:

Anorexia nervosa definitely hovers at the top of the list of horrors that parents hope to never surface in their children’s physical and mental makeup. At least one in 100 teenage girls in affluent countries is known to be affected by this disorder.

Anorexia is a condition that must be avoided and must be discouraged from the very start itself. While weight loss that has gone out of control (anorexia) is said to be prevalent among young adolescent girls, young boys are not known to suffer from this eating disorder as well.

Karen Carpenter of the Carpenters fame succumbed to cardiac arrest caused due to anorexia at the age of 32. Franz Kafka, the famous writer has been suspected to have suffered from a form of anorexia. Christy Henrich, who wanted to qualify for the U.S. Olympic gymnast team became anorexic and finally succumbed to organ failure at the age of 22.

This just goes to show that anyone can suffer from an eating disorder like anorexia. The best way to prevent this eating disorder is to recognize the symptoms from the start itself. Accepting the problem is the first step to treating the problem and at Body Makeover Systems, we can help you or your child come to terms with this problem.

For children that are obese or severely under-weight we have specially formulated healthy weight loss regimes and nutritional programs that check and enhance the child’s diet respectively.

For adults we have various healthy weight loss diet and weight loss personal training procedures that can help check anorexia. Get to know more at Body Makeover Systems.