Childhood Obesity Articles

Childhood Obesity Articles:

Leptin Abuse - Parents Making their Own Toddlers Fat

A new study shows that soft drinks and sweetened fruit drinks between meals and at bedtime double the risk for a child to be overweight by age 4 ½. It is obvious these children don’t buy their own food, so it is parents who are doing it to their own kids – a problem that significantly worsens based on the economic and educational status of the parents.

Read More: childhood obesity, Leptin Diet, metabolism, toddlers

Toddlers Need Iron to Protect Against Obesity

A lack of dietary iron is now linked as a contributing factor to the development of obesity in toddlers. Instead of adequate iron intake such toddlers often had extra sugar consumption in the form of fruit juice. Either low iron or high sugar intake will induce obesity and the combination is not good. Researchers found that obese toddlers had an incidence of 20% obesity, compared to 7% in non-obese toddlers. Iron is required for the formation of hemoglobin which carries oxygen and the cellular utilization of thyroid hormone, important factors in healthy metabolism.

Read More: childhood obesity, healthy metabolism, Iron, iron deficiency, toddlers

Lack of Sleep Disturbs Leptin, Makes Children and Adults Gain Weight

A new study by researchers at the University of Michigan shows that children who get less than 9.75 hours of sleep in the third grade are 40 percent more likely to be overweight in the sixth grade (whether they were already overweight or not in the third grade). It was found that the longer the kids slept, the less the chance for obesity. It is already known that adults lacking sleep (less then 7 hours) are at increased risk for weight gain. The researchers believe this problem is caused by disruption of healthy leptin function, as well as disruption of one of leptin’s companions, ghrelin (pronounced grel-an).

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Overweight Children and Teens at Risk for Weak Bones

It has long been thought that extra body weight, while a risk for many health problems, was not a risk for bone health. A new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition is now raising concerns of abnormal bone formation due to obesity.

Read More: bone formation, bone growth, bone metabolism, childhood obesity, overweight, teenagers

Quality Sleep is a Weight-Loss Key

I have long reported that sleep is the primary fat-burning time, especially when a person does not eat food before bed. Of course if you exercise you will burn more calories during and following exercise; but in terms of the ideal time of the day to simply burn more fat it is during sleep. Between meals during the day (assuming you do not snack) you will burn 60% glucose and 40% fatty acids. After 6 hours of not eating (such as during sleep) this ratio flips around and you begin to burn 60% fatty acids until you wake up, your prime fat-burning time if you have managed your daily eating patterns according to the Leptin Diet.

Read More: childhood obesity, children, eating before bed, fat burning, glycine, insulin, magnesium, metabolism, sleep

TV Commercials are Brainwashing Children to Become Obese

When “free speech” means hoodwinking children to become obese through the advertisement of junk food or poisoning Americans with glorified ads for extremely toxic drugs, it is time to rethink what is going on – as both con games are costing the U.S. healthcare system and taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. A new study done at UCLA shows that it is not the sedentary aspect of TV watching that causes children to become obese. Rather, it is the number of commercials they are exposed to that is the actual culprit.

Read More: adequate sleep, childhood obesity, family dinner, Leptin Control Pack®, Pine Nut Oil, TV commercials

Low Vitamin D Causes Faster Weight Gain in Children

One factor that contributes to inappropriate weight gain in children is low vitamin D, a society-wide problem. “Our findings suggest that low vitamin D status may put children at risk of obesity,” said Diane Gilbert-Diamond, first author of the study. “This is significant because vitamin D insufficiency is highly prevalent across the globe and childhood obesity rates are dramatically increasing worldwide.”

Read More: abdominal obesity, childhood obesity, Vitamin D