is essential for that guys lower weight the example of his family. When the you parents manage to control their overweight or obesity is much more likely that the children will follow the same line.

″Los parents are the most important people for a boy, being the first and most fundamental teachers. They have a key role in any program for weight loss of children, our study confirms the importance of his example in the establishment of healthy behaviors of food and activity física″, says Kerri Boutelle, psychiatrist at the University of California, San Diego (United States), who led the new research.

Obesity, an epidemic at the global level, affects both adults and children. According to the World Health Organization, in 2010 there were around 43 million children under five suffering from overweight.

The example to follow

specialists, who published their findings in the journal Obesity, worked for five months with kids from 8 to 12 years suffering from overweight or obesity. Boutelle analyzed as three different factors influencing the chances of children to lose weight.

These factors were the example of parents to lose weight themselves, changes in food in the House, and the way of raising children, and encourage them to follow a program to lose weight.

And research found that the example was the most important thing, that the popes who managed to lose their extra pounds and maintain the figure increased the possibilities for children to achieve a healthy weight.

″Analizamos factors such as skills and parenting styles, or change the food that the kids are in the House, to see how they impact on weight loss. The most efficient way to help parents an obese kid to lose weight is losing weight themselves. In our study, was the main factor to predict that children succeed in reducing the más″ kilos, ensures Boutelle.

For this reason, the specialist recommended that doctors encourage parents to lose weight for children with overweight and obesity gain control its own problem.

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