Factors That Cause Childhood Obesity In Ecuador

Factors that cause childhood obesity in Ecuador

With this essay on obesity, we can say that childhood obesity in Ecuador and in the world has had a great impact in recent decades, according to WHO (World Health Organization) for 2016, 41 million children under 5 years were overweight. (Health, October, 2017.) So what are the factors that cause imbalance in children and that cause childhood obesity, what are the psychological effects that it causes and how the country is repeating? From here we are going to be able to investigate what happens with childhood obesity and determine its consequences.

To begin with, we need to be clear that it is obesity and that it is what it causes. Obesity is an excess of fat in the body, a consequence of ingesting calories arbitrarily, which is characterized by a remarkable body mass volume, this causes serious health problems. (Health, October, 2017.) Child obesity is characterized by having a high level of body mass for its age and height, this can cause, despite its age, diabetes and high cholesterol levels. Children who suffer from overweight, tend to be obese in adulthood and suffer from an early age.

The properties determined of leisure and the lack of motivation to children with physical activity, gives a predictor factor of their adult obesity. (Cecilia m. Diaz Olmedo, 2015) The educational level is also associated, having nothing to do has a sedentary stay, so they usually watch television followed and unconsciously promote childhood obesity.

Child obesity has several risk factors, it can cause neurological damage, endocrine, respiratory complications, breast cancer. It is also clear to highlight that there are sociopolitical risks such as the lack of investment in children’s foods. Neonatal food can be a prevalence factor of obesity, excess food is not better for your health, but quite the opposite. The possibility that there are genetic conditions has been addressed, in certain children a high -fat diet may not cause a major problem, while in others.

In Ecuador, a study was conducted at the Biess Health Center, where 5,599 children who were the objects of study, 19% of them were overweight, 2% of serious obesity and more than half with normal weight. (José Castro Burbanan and obesity is imposed with 20.4% between both sexes. (Carlos Alberto Román Collazo, August, 2018) In general, according to the National Survey of Health and Nutrition (ENSANUT) in Ecuador on 29.9% of children under 5 are overweight or obesity. (Society, 2018).

In Ecuador together with WHO (World Health Organization), to end childhood obesity, they have developed a plan in the “Guagua Centro, and Health Centers. Which is first, control weight, promote physical activity, prenatal care, early childhood diet and promote healthy food consumption. They recommend, elaborate nutrient profiles, reduce the intake of insane food, apply physical activity programs, strengthen orientations for prenatal care and avoid childhood obesity. They propose to elaborate a treatment plan for obese children to improve their future health, among other things. (Health), 2016)

There are different perspectives that articulate several variables that influence the environment that intervene in the increase in childhood obesity. As we started, we know that biologically, if two parents are obese, the son runs the risk of being the same. Among other perspectives, they associate sexual abuse with obesity, or the change of schedule at the time of eating in families. Normally for parents, the obesity of children is not a problem, they think that the more chub. On the contrary, the absence of parents is the same is a risk factor, the child feeds as he wants without anyone who manages his diet properly.

It is clear that before reaching a psychological consequence, there are more consequences with more reception such as genetics, neurochemistry, endocrine, etc. Despite this, childhood obesity has psychosocial effects on the person, for many children, eating arbitrarily and not being able to stop suffering, they are commonly mockery objects that lead to putting a social stigma that affects the child’s life and can cause depression , anxiety and low self – esteem. Obviously the social impact reaches children, for their age being obese is referring to a vague, ugly, lazy person. This happens more strongly in young girls. (Diana del Rocio Dias-Encinas, 2007)

Child obesity can develop an anxiety period, appears due to the perception of danger, normally arises from social pressure, as popularity in the case of children, something that a person with overweight is very complicated to have it, so that Voluntary isolation and unconscious fears are created. (Martínez Munguía, 2014) These fears get to disappear by ingesting or chewing something that seeing it as an escape will be monotonous and will increase its obesity. The influence caused by parents in children has been demonstrated and how they mold it healthy. The mother is as the first responsible for being the one who offers food to the family, being she who provides the first contact with food.

In the child’s weight loss treatment, family intervention is important, to regulate food and encourage physical activity. It was seen that when parents must lose weight, by inertia the children also control and lose weight. Child obesity is recognized as a chronic disease and is associated with a metabolic syndrome, intervention for obesity management establish a relationship, those that have to do with personality, for their behavior of eating excessive; Those who are related to defense mechanisms and those who have to do with the context in which the subject is.

The appropriate intervention that can be given to the child with this problem of obesity, as it began would be to control their behaviors of ingesting food, healthy habits and physical activity. Next, the psychological support to strengthen their regulatory processes, consolidate their social skills, level their behaviors and emotions and an important point is to enrich their self-concept and encourage to raise their self – esteem. (Isabel Salas, 2010)

In conclusion, childhood obesity is already considered a pandemic because it affects everyone, each time its number increases by the sedentary lifestyle that is becoming monotonous in people, despite this there are plans that have created in order to prevent This, to stop early diseases in children and prevent them from having psychosocial problems, that do not reach higher levels such as depression or voluntary isolation. Given this, you have to keep in mind the points mentioned above to have adequate intervention, that it is a plan prepared to be able to address the family.

Take into account the considerations that have been written, such as preventing food consumption in children before 6 months, and that they eat breast milk no less than 6 months and take this in consideration so that future parents do not cause children to Have obesity for genetics, the contribution of health centers and "bus" centers in Quito, Ecuador to promote exercise and healthy food, is a good impulse so that children do not go through the suffering of childhood obesity.

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