Overweight and obesity are the result in caloric imbalance. Children and adolescents …show more content…
They could start by offering fruits and vegetables, buying fewer soft drinks, high-calorie snack foods, making sure your child eats breakfast every morning and eating fast food less. Not using food as a reward. Schools play a particularly critical role by establishing a safe and encouraging environment with rules and practices that support healthy behaviors. It can also be hard in school for obese children, because other children tend to tease and bully them. No one will ever know what it feels like to be overweight and to be bullied unless they were in the situation. We should all know that is not a good feeling. So, encouragement is the key, not so they child won’t get bullied but mainly for their health. As a parent or legal guardian you should feel responsible for the well being of your child. You should want your child to live a long healthy life. Being obese can cause depression once the child grows into an adult. There is multiple television shows were parents are crying and sad because they allowed their child to become obese. They feel responsible and ashamed which they should, because as a parent they had a chance to put a stop to the extra