3 Ways to Prevent Child Obesity

Parents must feel worried if their children too much weight. But the child obesity can be prevented by doing three healthy habits in the family.

Based on the results of a study there are three custom combinations can be associated with a lower risk of obesity in children, which made dinner together, make sure children get enough sleep and limit the number of children watching television.

The study involved 8550 children aged 4 years from several states in the United States. Found children who eat dinner with families at least five times a week, get hours of sleep at least 10 hours and watch television less than 2 hours a day, have a risk of 40 per cent less for a child obesity than children who do not do those three things.

It is estimated that only 1 in 7 children who apply these 3 are obese, compared with 1 in 4 children who did not apply this experience obesity. The results of this study have been published in the journal Pediatrics.

If the family can not do those three things, there's nothing wrong to apply one of them. Because the study also found a decrease in the risk of obesity by 25 percent if doing one of these routines.

"We found an independent effect from each of these activities. But doing all three will give better results, because it can reduce the risk of greater obesity," said study leader Sarah Anderson, a PhD from Ohio State University, as quoted by AP, Tuesday (9/2/2010).

By doing dinner with the family, so parents can monitor what foods consumed by children. If your child getting enough sleep will prevent the child megonsumsi snacks at night and reduce television viewing would make the child do physical activities more.

No harm in applying this third in a family activity that children do not become obese and avoid the risk factors for several chronic diseases later on.