Television Manufactures Obese Children.

Television Manufactures Obese Children

According to the ALADINO study, about 19.1 percent of minors between the ages of 6 and 9 are considered to be obese, while 26 percent are overweight. The main causes of obesity and overweight are the lack of exercise and unhealthy eating habits. However, the gravest cause of obesity is sleep apnea. According to the Biomedical Research Center in Red-Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition, sleep adnea can cause joint and back disturbances, which are one of the main causes of hypertension. It can also promote early puberty on girls.
An obese child between the ages of 10 and 14 has a 22.3 percent chance of continuing to be obese by ages 21 and 29. According to the Center, however, he or she can defeat the conditon by exersicing, eating healthy – which is not mean eating neither little nor a lot, but eating adequately. www.ciberobn.es
The most severe problems linked to childhood obesity are cardiovascular and endocrine complications. Moreover, another huge problems subsist, cancer. According to a study conducted by Cell Magazine, overweight acts as a tumor maker in general, especially in the liver.
According to the President of the Congress Organizing Committee of the Nutrition and Endocrinology Society, today’s children will live a shorter life with worst quality than that of their grandparents as a consequence of the derived problems caused by obesity and passiveness. During the last ten years, child obesity has doubled reaching 13.9 percent. www.seen.es
The comfortable habit of leaving children in front of the T.V. in order for them not to bother much around the house, does not do them any favor. Instead, it deteriorates their health. Two scientistists from New Zealand have demostrated that watching too much T.V. during childhood increases the possibility of being much more directly obese than by eating unhealthy or by not exercising. About 41 percent of people who are overweight by the age of 26 coincide with those who were in front of the T.V. most of their childhood.
The U.S. Center for Consumer Freedom launched an ad campaign against obesity questioning whether obesity is an epidemic or a myth. This is an example of how one chooses to ignore the critical reality in the most obese country in the world. The Medicine College Newspaper highlighted that obesity was the second cause of death in Spain. www.obesidad.roche.es
According to Cicero, hunger is the best spice for food. (Translated by Gianna A. Sanchez-Moretti)
Author and journalist Clemente Ferrer has led a distinguished career in Spain in the fields of publicity and press relations. He is currently President of the European Institute of Marketing.
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