Fitness Expert Talks About Children and Obesity
- Date: 2007-06-08 - Word Count: 406
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As you may know, obesity is a growing problem in America's adults and teenagers. A new study has shown that the problem now lies within children. Sometimes these children are as young as 3 years old.
It might not seem possible but, almost two thousand children examined in a recent study found a surprisingly high number of overweight and obese children at just three years of age.
The study was mostly focused on a group of children coming from income families in twenty large US cities. The children were born between the years 1998 and 2000. Their height and weight was recorded. Researchers found that close to one-third of white and black children were all slightly overweight to obese. This amount rose to forty-four percent when Latino children were tested.
These high numbers should be very concerning, but why was there such a high amount of obese children found in the Latino test? That study showed that there were more Latino children who had overweight mothers and Latino children were more likely to be given a bottle when they were put to bed, this, which clearly contributed to the problem. Although, it doesn't seem likely that this could be the entire result of the problem.
There is a lot of pressure when it comes to emphasizing being overweight. Now this pressure is being placed on very young children. Besides child obesity, we are also starting to see a growing number of other medical problems in children. Asthma and high blood pressure is appearing earlier and earlier.
There are many aspects for these growing problems. I want people to start taking more notice of what is going on in the world. It's already a big problem that adults should be affected with such things, but the fact that it's not affecting children as young as 3, means that something must be done.
Arnel Ricafranca is a six pack abs expert, fitness boot camp coach, author, and a motivational speaker. He has authored and co-authored several books including The Ultimate Weight Loss Success Strategies For Busy Men and Women Over 40 available online at www.elitefitnessexperts.com. Mr. Ricafranca has been featured as the fitness expert on numerous media such as Jersey 101.5 FM, and Morris Health and Life Magazine, and numerous websites such as NBC WALB 10 News, NBC KPLC 7 News, and KTRE ABC 9 news. Mr. Ricafranca can be reached via email at fitnessvip@gmail.com
Arnel Ricafranca's websites
http://www.iwantsixpackabs.com
http://www.womensworkoutguide.com
http://www.mensworkoutguide.com
http://www.workoutseries.com
http://www.introtobodybuilding.com
http://www.howtogetbigger.com
It might not seem possible but, almost two thousand children examined in a recent study found a surprisingly high number of overweight and obese children at just three years of age.
The study was mostly focused on a group of children coming from income families in twenty large US cities. The children were born between the years 1998 and 2000. Their height and weight was recorded. Researchers found that close to one-third of white and black children were all slightly overweight to obese. This amount rose to forty-four percent when Latino children were tested.
These high numbers should be very concerning, but why was there such a high amount of obese children found in the Latino test? That study showed that there were more Latino children who had overweight mothers and Latino children were more likely to be given a bottle when they were put to bed, this, which clearly contributed to the problem. Although, it doesn't seem likely that this could be the entire result of the problem.
There is a lot of pressure when it comes to emphasizing being overweight. Now this pressure is being placed on very young children. Besides child obesity, we are also starting to see a growing number of other medical problems in children. Asthma and high blood pressure is appearing earlier and earlier.
There are many aspects for these growing problems. I want people to start taking more notice of what is going on in the world. It's already a big problem that adults should be affected with such things, but the fact that it's not affecting children as young as 3, means that something must be done.
Arnel Ricafranca is a six pack abs expert, fitness boot camp coach, author, and a motivational speaker. He has authored and co-authored several books including The Ultimate Weight Loss Success Strategies For Busy Men and Women Over 40 available online at www.elitefitnessexperts.com. Mr. Ricafranca has been featured as the fitness expert on numerous media such as Jersey 101.5 FM, and Morris Health and Life Magazine, and numerous websites such as NBC WALB 10 News, NBC KPLC 7 News, and KTRE ABC 9 news. Mr. Ricafranca can be reached via email at fitnessvip@gmail.com
Arnel Ricafranca's websites
http://www.iwantsixpackabs.com
http://www.womensworkoutguide.com
http://www.mensworkoutguide.com
http://www.workoutseries.com
http://www.introtobodybuilding.com
http://www.howtogetbigger.com
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