The Dangers Of Childhood Obesity
Cancer is a horrifying experience for most people to endure. To think that parents could prevent their child from having cancer makes the parent seem careless, unloving, and irresponsible. Another side parents do not witness is when the child is at school. Other fellow classmates, especially at a young age, thrive on teasing kids who are different. By allowing children to be overweight or obese, it leaves them as easy targets to be known as “the fat kid.” As an obese child becomes older they usually make one of two choices to avoid being bullied or ostracized. They will either become anorexic, to the point where they remain malnourished and have to be admitted in the hospital and come close to death, or they will choose the option where they will go through their whole life with extremely low self-esteem that steers them to sadness and depression. Extreme cases of depression horrendously lead to suicide. All these major factors affect children physically and emotionally. This can be easily prevented by parental