Obesity in adolescence

Obesity is a disease that causes various difficulties in life obese. This problem can affect people of any age, many young people feel that during adolescence the mind and body undergo many changes that reflect on your life and the people who inhabit them. Obesity in adolescence usually begins in childhood but at this stage it is not treated as a problem which hinders further weight loss.

The wrong food habits established in childhood have a tendency to extend itself during adolescence, when children find it all pretty healthy and even that chubby child who later may become an obese adolescent and ill.

It is increasingly common in the obese adolescents possess high levels of fat and blood sugar. Several genetic, social and psychological lever can obesity.

Factors contributing to obesity in adolescence

• Evil Power
• Foods rich in fats or glucose
• Changes in schedules for meals
• Sedentary lifestyle - lack of physical activity
• Binge eating
• Stress and anxiety
• Difficult to relate to other people and make friends
  

Obesity contributes progressively during this phase to a low self esteem and negative thoughts that may come from the provocations on the part of classmates or even bias that reflects the difficulty of making new friends.

Obesity beyond all social and psychological problems it causes contributes to the emergence of various diseases such as hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, heart disease can lead to death if untreated.

It is important to encourage consumption of fruits and vegetables since childhood but also the practice of some kind of physical activity that will insert the child and later teenager in a social context. Programs that encourage nutrition and healthy lifestyles should also be encouraged especially in schools.

Source of reference: Nutrição em foco, O impacto da obesidade na adolescência