A researcher Susan Brady says that in Pregnancy a woman eats for two and it has completely new meaning. It is found through researches that mother’s diet during Pregnancy can change the child’s DNA through a process known as Epigenetic Change. This change can cause weight gain at the later stages in life. Pregnant woman should take moderate amount of chocolate bars, French fries, fast food etc.

It is a fact that eating healthy food during Pregnancy can lead to a good baby’s health but at the same time the researchers have also found that there is a link between good diet and child’s obesity. It is found that mother’s diet can make Genetic Changes that help to gain Fatty Tissues.

A research conducted in the University of Southampton Studied the 300 children from Womb to their childhood and analyzed the extent of chemical change of DNA in Umbilical Cord and found that Epigenetic Changes plays a vital role in making children obese at 6 or 9 years of age.

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Obesity in Children

Out of 3 children are overweight and many children are affected by childhood obesity.

This obesity can cause serious diseases the children including diabetes, asthma, and heart diseases etc. people mocked at the obese children and they themselves feel depressed about their obesity problem.

If you are the parents of such children you may also feel worried about it but with the support, encouragement and care your children can also maintain good weight.

Here are the few tips to care for obesity in the children

• Healthy eating habits

The main cause of obesity in the children is the unhealthy eating habits. One should make major changes in their eating style like encourage a balanced diet consisting of all required basic components of food, make breakfast as your priority and control your number of meals etc.

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Facts about Obesity

We never want to have that humpty dumpty figure that welcome ironic comments from other people but unfortunately the obesity is one of the wide spread problem worldwide and its increasing very rapidly.

Now this question arises, what is actually obesity and why it is increasing with such a high pace? According to the health experts the change in society and behavioral patterns of communities is something that is welcoming this epidemic nowadays.

According to WHO currently 1 billion adults worldwide are overweight and less than 300 million of them are clinically obese. Obesity has taken place of an epidemic still majority of people are not aware of the factors that welcomes this problem and the results that are obtained after one gets into this problem.

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The infancy is the time period when a good sleep is thought to be the most health giving activity and if it is not taken properly than it can bring many health problems. A study has shown that the lack of sleep or less sleep in young children especially infants brings a significantly higher risk of becoming obese later in life.

The report of this study has got published in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, a JAMA/Archives journal. Obesity has nowadays become a major health problem faced by majority of countries worldwide.

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Obesity has always being a major problem of people worldwide but previously people were not much attracted towards the surgeries for this problem as compared to now. According to some researchers the numbers of NHS operations for the weight loss has increased tenfold since 2000 and the main reason for this seems to be the increased awareness among people for these treatments.

This new research was conducted by Researchers at Imperial College London and this study covered all those individuals who had a first elective bariatric procedure under the NHS in England between April 2000 and March 2008. The findings of this study can read in the 26 August online issue of the British Medical Journal, BMJ

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