Obesity rates; Three routines to reduce their children and # 039

Want to reduce or obese your child's risk of obesity? Creating and applying these three simple family policy can help.

1. We ate as a family. Eat regularly, aiming for five to seven nights a week. You do not have to prepare anything fancy (what are the chances that your child could eat anyway?). It is important as the food to slow down a variety of foods to model healthy behavior, and sit at the table, without electronics, and so on. Check out my Pinterest board for recipes that work to help my family, or an Area Command, pass the evening entertainment.
   
2. Children have a regular sleep schedule. Help your child (at least) Duration 10:30 clock week enough sleep. There is a close relationship between the quantity and quality of sleep and health, including the risk factors for obesity.
   
3. We set limits on screen time. Limit television, video and games on the tablet up to two hours or less per day. Too much time with screens can disrupt sleep and displace physical activity on the day of his son.

Nothing too crazy, right? Sarah Anderson, Ph.D., an epidemiologist at Ohio State University, conducted a study with Robert Whitaker, Ph.D., of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University in Philadelphia. They were looking for ways to help parents to be more actively looking in the prevention of childhood obesity. His goal was to identify household routines, first, may protect against the development of obesity in children; second, other benefits, "such as social, emotional and / or cognitive development of children" actions; and thirdly, there is no harm for children and families. The top three all meet these criteria clear.

Anderson and Whitaker analyzed a sample of 8,000 children aged four years, found that children who were exposed to all the highest routines of households had a prevalence of about 40% lower in obese than children who were exposed to any of them.

Even in families, one of the three routines follow, "the probability of excess weight ranged from 23% to 25% less' than in families that follow, none of the routines, the study reports. And the prevalence of obesity was even live in families below the poverty line, reduced, or where mothers are obese.

While Dr. Anderson notes that research is not to establish a causal connection between these three routines and reduced obesity, said that in most family situations, to integrate them and no harm could do well. And it is interesting that a separate study, two years later published a relationship between family rules and weight status of the family was found. Families who do not have rules, or have struggled to enforce them, and the parents are usually overweight children.

To create healthy family policy in preschool to make a profit in the coming years. In addition, you will be much more successful implementation and a habit of these routines when their children are younger and get in front of homework, sports and other extracurricular activities.

_Sources:

_{Anderson SE and Whitaker RC. Household routines and obesity in preschool children, American children. Pediatrics, vol. No. 125 March 3 1. of 2010.}

_{Hearst, MO, Sevcik, S, et al. Stressed and overworked! The relationship between the lack of time and the rules of the family and parents and the weight status of their child. Health Education and Behavior, vol. 39 no. 4, August 2012th}