If your children are overweight or obese, they need your help.
Take Action: Your Obese Children Need Your Help
A recent study suggests that obese children are more likely to have heart disease between the ages of 35-50.
That’s the time in your son or daughter’s life when they’d also be most likely to be in the middle of raising their own children…
That’s when they’d be watching their children graduate from high school…
But none of that is going to happen for them if they wind up in the hospital with terrible heart conditions that keep them from enjoying their lives.
If your child is obese or overweight…you probably don’t need a doctor or a chart to tell you, right? (But if they do, you’d better listen up.)
Most overweight and obese kids have probably been teased to the point of tears by their peers and classmates…
But they are KIDS and they don’t know how to get in shape, lose weight, exercise, or eat right without YOUR help.
Your obese or overweight children are depending on you to help them…
Here’s what the mother of an obese 7 year old who weighs 124 pounds when she should weigh around 70 pounds…
Burgos’ advice to parents of obese kids is simple: Though it may be easy to save time by not cooking and by giving kids only the food they want, don’t do it.
This is a simple thing you can do for your kids.
Make dinner for them and choose to give them food that’s good for them.
Stop taking them out to fast food restaurants just because that’s what your kids want.
If you’re going to need to change the way YOU eat so that your obese/overweight child isn’t tempted, then do it.
And if it seems too hard for you to do it on your own because your will power doesn’t seem so good, that’s okay.
There is lots of help and support to help you get through it.
Ask your local gym. Research personal trainers in your area. See a family nutritionist.
Do what it takes to make sure your children know how to take care of their bodies.
And if your child isn’t particularly overweight – but you’re starting to notice that your family is in the habit of eating junk food from fast food restaurants and you give your kids whatever they want to eat, think again.
These little choices now can turn into big problems later down the road.
More Parenting Advice: What advice would you have for a parent whose child is obese or overweight?
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