Mother-Child Relationship and Obese in Adolescents
Obesity in adolescents not only be related to lack of exercise and a diet high in calories. According to a recent study, a bad relationship with the mother during childhood may also increase the risk that these children are obese as they grow. Do you have children? Well you should keep reading.
Childhood obesity is a sure path to an adolescent, a youth and adult health problems. Helping your children to fight or prevent it from a young age is not a matter of vanity or coquetry, but to prevent a problem that affects the entire body and can cause conditions that previously only of concern to adults, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, sleep apnea, depression, asthma and other respiratory diseases, skin infections, liver problems and the list goes on.
Most worrisome is that obesity is increasingly hold more of our children. According to figures provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC by its acronym in English), thanks to the results of two surveys conducted between 1976 and 1980, the first, and between 2003 and 2006, the second, the weight gain in children has been dramatic: among children 2 to 5 years of age increased from 5% to 12.4% among children aged 6 to 11 years, from 6.5% to 17% and among adolescents aged 12 to 19, from 5% to 17.6%.
Obesity is the result of an imbalance between calories consumed and energy expended, ie occurs because you eat too much and exercise little. But these are not the only cause: there are other factors that contribute to weight gain, such as genetics and customs.
Being Hispanic or Latino, for example, have an increased genetic risk of suffering from obesity. But the children eat what their parents give them, so the family eating habits and are also very important (and help fight this genetic predisposition): you have the power to control your children’s access to foods that do not make Okay, so you should try to fill the pantry with nutritious food.
Physical inactivity or lack of physical activity is another factor which helps weight gain. Studies show that children and teens spend too much time watching television and movies and playing video games.
Sometimes there may also be psychological factors that stimulate the child to overeat, as emotional problems, depression or boredom. And this adds a new factor: the relationship with the mother during the first years of life, which apparently can influence obesity in adolescence. If so, love and affection can become new weapons to combat childhood obesity.
This data comes from a new study by researchers at Ohio State University, USA, who analyzed the data of hundreds of families living in nine U.S. states, who had children who were born in 1991, collected National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
In this study, which appears in the January issue of the journal Pediatrics, the risk of obesity in children at 15 years was higher among those who had an emotional relationship of lower quality with their mothers when they were children. In particular, over 25 percent of children who had the lowest quality relationships with their mothers were obese in adolescence, and only 13 percent of those with closer ties with their mothers in their early years life showed this problem in his teens.
According to the researchers, these findings and earlier indicate that the risk of developing obesity may be affected by brain areas that control emotions and responses to stress, which work in conjunction with that control appetite and energy balance.
In this sense, is not only important to encourage children to exercise and help maintain a healthy diet. The affection and a strong bond between mother and child (a) may also be key when your children take care not collect kilos or pounds.
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