Obesity in child or infant should be monitor

How many children are over weight?

Large plan on the problem of the overweight and obesity at the child and the teenager.

In Switzerland, 1 enfant/adolescent out of 10 is obese! How to estimate the degree of obesity at infant?

Calculation of the Index of Body Mass (IMC) defining obesity according to the weight and of the size. Caution! Contrary to in the adult, the standards vary according to the age!

How does one become obese and how can one prevent it? Sensitizing with the lack of movement, due in particular to the change of the leisures (video games, television, computer), and to the “malbouffe”. Incentive with the modifications of the hygiene of life (to increase the physical activity and to eat balanced). Which are the complications related to obesity? Obesity can become complicated various problems of health of which diabetes of the type 2, diseases cardiovascular (hypertension and infarction), articular lesions, anomalies of the menstrual cycle and depression. Study in progress Currently, a study is in hand at the hospital of the Children. The purpose of it is to evaluate the possibility of preventing the diabetes of the type 2 at the obese teenagers using a medicamentous treatment. Indeed, obesity involves an increase in the blood inflammatory parameters which seem to play a dominating part in the appearance of the diabetes.

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