Dealing With Emotional Causes of Child Obesity
Posted in Child Obesity on October 27th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to commentAny fitness camps aimed at teenagers have two very important roles; they cannot only deal with addressing eating issues. They must also manage to control the emotions that many of these teenagers will experience.
For obese teens additional counseling is often recommended by doctors who are trying to establish the reason for a teen’s weight problem. Clearly, overeating is the core problem but for teens the reason for weight gain may be more complex.
There are 10 big reasons as to why obesity occurs. They are:
- Depression
- Family issues
- Genetics
- Lack of exercise
- Low self-esteem
- Medical conditions
- Medications
- Overeating
- Peer issues
- Poor eating habits
The problem is sometimes quite simple and is because some teenagers are lazy and like to eat what they want whenever they want. However normally there is a less apparent reason for the teens to become overweight. read more »