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More and more children become obese. Treatment requires the therapy of the whole family

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published Aug. 31, 2022 12:19

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WHO warns that every tenth child is obese, but it is Polish children who gain weight the fastest in Europe! And obesity is not just "excessive fat" or a few unnecessary kilograms. Obesity is a chronic, multi-organ disease often leading to the development of many other serious diseases, even disability, psychological problems or mental disorders.

It is worth talking about it, especially now, when children return home and to school from vacation, and they and their parents can be offered professional help of family medicine specialists. They approach each patient individually, each doctor has their own methods of treating obesity.

Doctors remind that the cause of obesity is, among others poor nutrition, physical inactivity, sleep deprivation and stress, which kids often eat with high-calorie snacks, such as crisps or sweets. This, in combination with sitting at school first and then in front of the computer, results in obesity. An obese child is an obese adult in the future . And in Poland, almost every third man and every fourth woman already str...

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