Teenage obesity is on the rise.
Teenagers gain weight because:
1) They don’t know the difference between healthy and unhealthy foods. If they were eating junk and fatty foods as little kids, the same unhealthy eating habit follows them into their adolescence and they start eating them in larger quantities.
Parents often ask their kids to buy junk foods from outside instead of taking the time or trouble to cook healthy meals at home. If your child never tastes healthy and organic foods, he would naturally hate them in the latter years of his life.
Plus, if your child lives in school hostel, things could get only worse. These days, schools prefer to buy junk foods from outside since it is the cheaper option to cooking meals in-house. Also, the exercise classes they have are pretty basic. They would only work for a certain period, after which your kid would be left on his own.
2) They are much more tempted to try out restaurant foods than their pre-teen counterparts. You see, almost all teenagers today have their pockets full of cash. There are usually two sources of this cash: either their parents offer them pocket money or they make money from part time jobs. So, when they have money to spend, they usually spend it on junk foods because they are tasty.
A lot of their food habits are also influenced by their peers at school and college. I still remember how every time my friend had soft drinks at the college canteen, I would inevitably buy one for myself, even though I had no intention of buying it when I ventured out of home.
3) They hardly exercise. Again, their parents have got a big role to play here. If a kid is not taught the benefits of exercises, or if parents allow them to watch video games for hours instead of encouraging them to participate in outdoor sports, the situation could only get worse as they grow into adolescence.
There are indeed very few schools which make outdoors sports and other such activities a mandatory part of their curriculum. As such, our present school system is also to be blamed for teenage obesity.
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