As most of the health experts suggest that children must do moderate exercise of one hour every day but according to a UK study, it may not prove enough to overcome the problem of childhood obesity.

The researchers noted that almost 42 percent of boys and only 11 percent of girls met govt. suggested exercise levels among those more than 200 British school going kids that were followed from age 5 to age 8.

However, even among these children, no positive effect was found regarding weight control with the passage of time, as the report that has been published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood suggests.

But it is not to suggest that exercise is not beneficial for children.

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Role of non genetic factors

Before commenting on the role of genetics in obesity, one must keep in mind that only a small percentage of children carry genetic defects for obesity and the factors other than genetic play a key role in making a child obese. Unfortunately, most of the people don’t realize the bad influence of these factors and keep emphasizing upon the genetic factors responsible for childhood obesity.

One of the many none-genetic causes of obesity in childhood is the imbalance between the input energy (food) and the output energy (exercise). The children who keep on taking nutrients at irregular intervals without utilizing or consuming the input energy in some physical or mechanical work get bulky in short period of time. This fact is not confined only to younger children but is applicable to all age-groups as well. Whenever your input is greater than your output, you get over weight and vice versa.

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“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.

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