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November 04, 2006 - For many years experts have been reporting that this generation will become the first for nearly 100 years in which the parents will outlive their children.
Further evidence released today verifies this, with 66% of British Teenagers now considered too fat to join the Army. Results just in have shown that and that only 33% of 16 year olds were able to meet the original Body Mass Index target of 28, which has now had to be re-set to 32.
But the problem starts at an early age than the teenage years. One in 10 six-year-olds is obese and the total numbers of obese children have doubled since 1982. Calculations show that one-half of all children in England in could be obese by 2020.
So what can be done:
The issue of how our children eat and exercise is one that strikes at the heart of a parent's role in protecting our offspring. But various respected sources, such as the International Journal of Paediatric Obesity report that by the end of the decade thirty eight per cent of children EU will be overweight, increasing to almost 50 percent in North and South America.
Areas of the world previously believed to be free of obesity - the Middle East, across Asia and the Pacific are becoming effected - even more surprising when some areas are also having to combat malnutrition at the same time.
Recently a new type of illness, 'diabesity' has been coined to reflect the increases across the world in obesity related diabetes.
The impact of obesity upon children is devastating and includes such issues as:
· lack of self esteem
· distancing from friends at school
· bullying
· poor results
· poor patterns of eating and exercise continued into adulthood
· early onset of various illnesses including type II diabetes
· faster development of fat cells, once in place, hard to deal with.
· cardio-vascular disease & fatigue
· depression, and in the worst cases
· suicide
So what are the approaches that are successful in combating this 'death sentence' issued to our children?
Surprisingly enough, the mechanisms to manifest change in our children’s bodies is simple to explain, but hard to actually make happen.
It focuses upon three areas:
1. Diet
2. Exercise
3. Better thinking.
1. Diet can be addressed by each of us eating a mixture of foods that are more rich in natural ingredients, minerals, vitamins and so on, rather than the fast-food diets that so many of the Western World take for granted.
2. Exercise needs to become a natural and regular part of our week. Within the last few decades, the standard of living of most of the Western World means most people have access to transport, central heating, easy access to shops and so on. As a result, the physical exercise that our bodies used to carry out every day is omitted - and we're getting flabby.
No-one goes to sleep one night and wakes up the next fat - it takes time to put on weight and this slow and steady increase to the waist line often comes at the same time as something which needs the help of step 3, and this is denial.
3. Better thinking. No-one wants to admit they are overweight. There are thousands of words used to avoid describing this; chubby, cuddly, lumpy, cute, big-boned, huggable, just the way I am, and so on. It is important for families to recognise the thinking they apply that lets them ‘overlook’ the weight increases in their children.
Denial causes the issue to be ignored until too late and then the person - by then the patient, has to be placed under the care of the medical profession - at great cost - in order to attempt to address their weight problem.
However, by helping that same person to think better about themselves at an earlier stage in the process, it is possible to help them to stop their weight gain and actually begin a process of re-balancing their weight to something better for their true size.
Unlike medical interventions, diets or pills, the approaches that focus upon better thinking all offer improvements without side-effects and do not require the overweight person to submit to a long-term expenditure of alternative treatment regimes.
Whilst we would suggest hypnotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming or Thought Belief Cartograpy there are also other other similar approaches applied by other practitioners which can offer similar results.
For further information about how Brian-Stevenson.co.uk can help with your own weight issues, or to learn ways of better thinking, email info ( @ ) brian-stevenson dot co.uk or visit http://www.brian-stevenson.co.uk
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