Childhood Obesity: a growing concern

Children in the modern age are getting increasingly unhealthy. With the likes of computer games and electronic devices being brought into the world children choose to play indoors than play outside. This results in children becoming unfit and this causes a lot of problems to their health and there daily life.

More that ¾ of children are not getting their proper share of one hour exercise; this includes 17% of boys and 16% of girls. It is a shock that the number is that large because people should all know about the joys of exercise. It is good for you and it massively improves your health.

Childhood obesity can cause type 2 diabetes later on in life because it can develop in adulthood: now an alarming amount of teenagers develop it in there early years. This is something very important and needs to be tackled as some as possible. Try to make sure that the people around you are healthy and encourage everyone to live a healthy life.

By Tanya Kuzmich