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10 Ways on How to Avoid Child Obesity

A child is said to be obese if their weight is more than 20% higher than the ideal weight. Usually, these children have eating disorder habits. Unfortunately, none of the new medicines to treat obesity are approved for children or adolescents to use. They may affect your child’s growth and development, and the risk of dangerous complications is far greater than any benefit they might have.

However, parents can do some things to avoid their children to be obese. These may be simple, but requires a lot of determination and discipline. Here are some of them and hopefully, we can follow them. Read the rest of this entry »