Obese Children

“The best condiment for food is hunger” - Cicerón

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(MADRID) - The main problems that concern child obesity are cardiovascular and medical. Nonetheless, an even greater dilemma exists, cancer. According to a published study by Cell Magazine, overweight acts as a promoter of tumors in general and in the liver in particular.

The children of today will live for a fewer amount of years and with a worse quality of life than did their grandparents, due to the problematic consequences derived from obesity and passivity – according to the press President of the Organizing Committee of the European Society Congress of Endocrinology and Nutrition. Within the last 10 years, child obesity has doubled reaching 13.9%. Also, 30% of obese children will be obese by adulthood.

The habitual commodity of leaving children in front of the television, so they do not annoy too much, does not do them any favor for their health at all. Two New Zealand scientists have demonstrated that watching too much television during infancy increases the possibilities of becoming more directly obese than through plain bad nutrition or by not doing physical exercise. 41% of people who are overweight at the age of 26 coincide with those who spent more hours of their infancy in front of a television screen.

The United States’ Center for Consumer Freedom has begun a campaign against overweight under the motto of “obesity: epidemic or exaggeration?” which pretends to negate the obvious in the country with the fattest people in the world. The journal of the Medical College pointed out that obesity was the second cause of death in the country.

Eroski, the distribution group, has launched a campaign against overweight in collaboration with four associations related to health and healthy food. Obesity is a serious problem to health in a lot of developed countries due to their incidence and the conditioning of health spending. It is estimated that around 13% of the population between the ages of 25 and 60 is obese. The percentages of child and juvenile obesity are even more worrisome. Almost 24% of the population between the ages of 2 and 24 is obese, and 26.3% suffers from overweight. (Translated by Gianna A. Sanchez-Moretti)

“The best condiment for food is hunger”, said Cicerón.

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Author and journalist Clemente Ferrer Roselló, a prestigious Spanish advertising character, presents a fascinating personal and professional career fully devoted to the world of communication in its varied dimensions. He earned a PhD in Information Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, BA in Advertising from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona Master in Marketing from the School of Marketing Studies in Madrid.

He has been Associate Professor of Business Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Navarra and a contributor to the Madrid daily ABC. He also spent several years teaching, both in the Official School of Advertising as the School of Information Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1985 he was awarded the Gold Master, granted by the Senior Management Forum and AMPE Prize 1996 to the "long and brilliant career advertising."

You can write to Clemente at this address: clementeferrer3@gmail.com