“Childhood-Obesity” increases the probability of premature heart attacks and strokes. Children are growing with obesity and this has become a worldwide concern now. “Childhood-Obesity” is no less than a growing epidemic.
Findings of two successive studies brought out recently reveal that the potential impact of childhood obesity must be viewed with two inter-related perspectives. One of these two studies examined and analyzed the effects of excess weight from childhood to the adulthood. This study evaluated the track records of more than 250,000 youngsters who were examined in the year 1930.
Second study applied latest techniques including digital crystal ball of computer modeling. Findings of this studies resulted in to the predicting that the probability of increase of the deaths due to heart attacks could rise up by 1.9%.This increase in the rate of deaths may have a beginning at an average age of 35 years.
“It’s the age and the magnitude that’s so striking to us”, said Kirsten Bobbins of the University of California, San Francisco.
Based on the conclusive revelations of these two studies, doctors the world over believe that now there are sufficient evidences available demonstrating that excess weight does affect a child’s long-term risk of heart diseases and life expectancy.
Many of the previous studies concluded with several conflicting results. One of the main reasons for confusion was a fact that despite obesity epidemic the rate of deaths due to heart diseases was successfully driven down just because of better treatments. Now this is almost known that the medicines that lower cholesterol and blood pressure would not be effective in reversing the effects of diabetes which is one of the major risk of obesity and a big cause of severe heart diseases.
“The entire argument will be irrelevant, once the full effects of the childhood obesity epidemic are felt”, says Dr.David Ludwig of Children’s Hospital in Boston.
Dr. David Ludwig is the author of a controversial study published almost two years back and propounded that obesity could knock two to five years off the average child’s life span.
Some of the most compelling evidences derived from a long-term study conducted on the Danish schoolchildren by Dr.Jennifer Baker of the Institute for Preventive Medicines in Copenhagen. This study involved 276,835 persons in all who were first examined in the year 1930.Later life tracking of all these participants revealed that almost 10,235 men and 4,318 women either suffered from the heart diseases or have died of it.
Researchers observe that the higher a children “Body Mass Index”, the higher his risk of getting heart disease. A boy of 13 years in age having the highest range of ‘Body Mass Index’ would have increased his risk of attracting a heart attack or other heart related problems by the age of 60 years and the risk would increase by 33 %.
“What’s even more disturbing is that the highest weight category among Danish children would barely make it out of the normal range for U.S. kids”, says Dr. David Ludwig.
Dr Ludwig predicted that y the year 2035, obesity among U.S. children would be adding 100,000 more cases of heart diseases. This will further add to the 2 million cases that are presently posing a big challenge.
This is a major issue requiring a complete sweep of the current policies in order to ensure that our children have easy access to healthy foods, physical activity, and safe space to exercise.
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Further Reading :
Obesity is by now so frequent in younger generations that nearly noone knows anymore what sound weight is, and that holds even for health personel that usually are serious obese themselves.
Therefore health peronel has a tendency to diagnose reallly healthy weighted bersons as “anorectic”.
The whole society needs a reeducation about weight matters.