Obese children tend to grow up into adults who are overweight.  Seeing the number of obese children keeps rising worldwide, it increases the risk of developing serious health issues in later life, including heart attack and stroke, Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure etc.

Risk in obese children: Type 2 Diabetes

According to World Health Organisation (WHO), the adverse health effects for obese children are already being seen in childhood itself.  Confined to older adults for most of the 20th century, type 2 diabetes now affects obese children even before puberty.  As such, healthy weight loss program is no more being offered to the adults, but also to the obese children.

In the United States alone, it is found that up to 45% of children with newly diagnosed diabetes have type 2 diabetes; most are overweight or obese at diagnosis. Continue Reading…