Obesity puts children at risk

"Diet and exercise are especially important to curb the escalating problem of childhood obesity," she said. "Obesity puts children at risk for high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol levels. Children's diets have changed dramatically, influenced by television commercials and the convenience of fast foods. Children are eating too much fatty and processed foods. Parents need to involve their kids in regular exercise activities and cut down on fatty meals, emphasizing healthy foods such as vegetables." Children with heart disease risk factors should get preventive treatment



As the efforts of governments and celebrity chefs go to waste while parents feed their children local junk food through the bars of the playground rather than encourage their charges to eat the healthier options; as the new improved healthy school dinners in UK go to waste, binned rather than eaten, the world's experts continue to issue stark warnings.



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