Doctors have named the causes of excess weight in children of single mothers
The World Health Organization (WHO) is sounding the alarm: over the past quarter century, the number of children who are overweight and obese has grown by a record 9 million people in world history. WHO experts tried to understand the causes of this phenomenon, and found that most children who are overweight are babies who are raised only by the mother without the participation of the father.
An incomplete family, according to doctors, is a risk factor for predisposition to childhood obesity.
The absence of a father in the daily life of a child has a huge impact on his physiological, psychological characteristics of development, and also forms a special eating behavior, in which the kilograms increase, like an avalanche. Gadget addiction also contributes to obesity. If a mother raises a child alone, she usually has to work more, pay less attention to the child, and there is nothing left for it but to plunge into the virtual world of games, social networks, having made a kind of escape from reality, in which the child is not satisfied.
WHO experts noted that the rapid increase in the number of divorces, which is now celebrated in all countries of the world, can lead to the fact that earthlings will receive a whole generation of sick childrenAfter all, the problem of obesity is not limited to those extra pounds, it entails a lot of concomitant diseases in children.
This is a direct threat to the survival of mankind, because sick offspring will, in turn, give a new sick generation.
What is a woman to do, her marriage collapsed or didn’t take place with the news about the pregnancy? WHO experts have recommended women raising children alone, pay more attention to the physical activity of the child - to write down children in sections, circles, to encourage active leisure. But sticking stress after a divorce is neither beneficial for the mother nor the child, and therefore no less attention should be paid to the nutrition of the offspring.
If up to 14 years old mom manages to keep, thanks to these measures, the child’s weight is normal, then the risk of obesity for a particular boy or girl will begin to decline rapidly towards the end of puberty.
