<h1>Fatness in childhood</h1>

No doubt that in children, the fat usually set sometimes hereditary. We talked about it. Many babies born normal without excessive weight, are usually obese to reach school age. According to doctors, even 60 100 cases of obesity is the "fatness of children", although that term often hidden rickets, hypothyroidism, adipose-genital dystrophy or other disease.

Some authors, like Freud and Bruch, place great importance on family atmosphere. For years it has been shown that obese children are great eaters, and this should be due to some underlying reasons. Bruch does not rule out organic factors of obesity, but as a whole, will disappoint, the abandoned and left with a real phenomenon and obvious: overfeeding.

Making a debriefing parents of obese children, is a series of results so uniform that target a social misfit and a feeling of insecurity. This imbalance explains their behavior with respect to food. Food is the only satisfaction allows attaching a moral state of emotional development. Is overeating a break to anxiety and justification to life. In this way overcome the frustrations of social isolation and emotional deprivation.

The behavior of parents is very important. The passivity and indifference of the father contrasts with the predominant role of the mother in the family, and often on maternal position is simply an attempt to mask an underlying hostility and offset a lack of affection.

"This climate creates a state of emotional stress on the child, and to stimulate the hypothalamic hyperphagia arises, ie the excessive desire to eat."

Parents must learn to know the value of food and help your child set new rules (in some cases beginning with watch them themselves) to help you eat with logic. Many children who do not know what the vegetables, fish or fresh fruit, and only eat bacon, eggs, meat, starches and above all, lots of candy and bread. So easy fatten quickly, even at the expense of the proper functioning of the liver or kidney.

Very important is exercise, it is curious to observe how these obese children tend to reduce weight in summer (season sports) and get it back again in cold weather.

We suggest that childhood obesity is corrected and that a study be made of the fat, in case it might be a real disease, before it reaches the age of puberty, for at that time can already be established permanently, not forgetting, addition to the child, after fourteen years passed and to be regarded as an adult in terms of medical treatment is concerned.