Obesity Leads To Bullying

Being overweight is the number one taunt in Australian playgrounds today...

Large numbers of people say they were given a hard time and bullied when they were children to do with being overweight. The survey that was conducted in Australia shows that over twenty percent of adults say that when they were young their weight was something that singled them out of the crowd to be picked on. In fact the survey results show that teasing children about being overweight is the number one taunt in Australian playgrounds today.

Other research that we have seen at Ukmedix News shows that overweight children grow up nursing psychological wounds as a result of being overweight and this can have two different effects on them. Either they become determined as adults to keep thin and are fanatical about their weight and can sometimes develop problematic eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia or they become extremely stubborn and refuse to lose weight no matter what. Obesity beat all the other types of taunts in the playground such as dress sense, bad skin, different accents and wearing glasses.

When kids are young it is very difficult to make them lose weight because it is extremely hard to deny children chocolate and sweets and all the things that they love. However in the long run they will suffer far more as teenagers when they get older if they are overweight and they will thank you for having been strict with them when they were younger.

In Australia statistics show that up to 30 percent of Australian children are either overweight or obese and number is rising sharply.  This phenomenon of childhood obesity is happening all over the developed world and countries like America and UK are also suffering from this problem. At Ukmedix News we advise parents to set healthy eating patterns in their children at an early age because that is when they are most impressionable and when it is easier to teach them what is good for them and what is not.