What are the dangers of adolescent obesity, and is adolescent obesity harmful?

Affects body shape. Adolescence is a good time for the human body to get in shape, which means that this period has a lot to do with a person's height, shortness, fat and thinness. However, many bad habits in life lead to excessive subcutaneous fat, which gives people"Bloated, weak, lazy, clumsy"and other impressions, affecting the body shape of adolescents.

Affects mental health.

Due to obesity, adolescents are often not flexible enough in their movements, and they will be rejected by many people when participating in group activities, which has a great impact on the psychological growth and development of adolescents, and even produces a strong sense of inferiority. If their academic performance is not very good, coupled with the clumsiness of their movements, they will become withdrawn in their personalities, unwilling to interact with others, and even cause problems"Autism"。

Affects intellectual development.

Obese children and adolescents accumulate too much fat in their bodies, and their oxygen consumption is 30% 40% higher than that of normal people, and oxygen in the body"Unable to make ends meet", there will be listlessness, easy fatigue, drowsiness, and difficulty in concentrating, which will affect learning efficiency and lead to a decline in grades.

Adolescent obesity can also cause sexual development disorders, with boys leading to delayed sexual development and girls leading to precocious puberty, early menarche, and menstrual disorders. Adolescents are overweight and tend to increase their physical burden, with flat feet, knee bending, lower limb bending, and damage to the spine and intervertebral cartilage. Obese children and adolescents have high cholesterol and fatty acids, high blood lipids, suppressed immune systems, poor disease resistance, and are susceptible to respiratory tract infections, which can easily lead to some"Adult illness"Younger, such as diabetes, hypertension, fatty liver, coronary heart disease, etc.

1. Affect the level of intelligence.

Adolescent obesity is neither a simple overnutrition, nor a sign of robustness. Obesity causes excessive fat accumulation in brain tissue, forming an obese brain, which makes the sulcus of the brain close together, reduces wrinkles, smooths the cerebral cortex, poorly develops neural networks, reduces the level of intelligence, and makes the brain less agile.

2. Affect physical development.

Sluggishness and difficulty moving the limbs.

3. Affect psychological development.

In turn, it affects the psychological development of children.

4. Cause high blood pressure.

At the same time, obese children often eat too much fat and calories, which may lead to precocious puberty and high blood pressure. Childhood obesity does not affect their current life, study and health, but also cultivates adult diseases, and lays the bane of adult hypertension, heart disease, arteriosclerosis, tumors, diabetes and other diseases.

Gone are the days of not having enough to eat and drink. In today's world, when the overall energy intake of the people is increasing, and the intake of foreign fast food, sugary and carbonated drinks and sweets is increasing, obesity is also decreasing. Adolescent obesity has become a common phenomenon in our modern era.

1. What are the causes of obesity in adolescents?

1. Lack of physical exercise time and sleep less than nine hours a day. Studies have shown that sleeping less than six hours is associated with a significant increase in obesity rates. The reason for this is that lack of sleep affects the secretion of leptin and other sensitive camminins;

2. Academic stress and other psychological problems can affect appetite, and some children tend to relieve stress with gluttony and overeating, which eventually leads to obesity and nutritional problems.

3. In addition, genetics and family eating habits and lifestyles are also influencing factors.

2. What are the dangers of adolescent obesity?

1. Obese patients are often accompanied by hyperlipidemia, and the deposition of adipose tissue on the blood vessel wall will cause damage to the blood vessel wall and cause atherosclerosis to form the blood vessel wall. At the same time, fat cells will secrete adipocyte factors such as osteocalcin, which can also cause calcification and damage to the blood vessel wall, reduce the elasticity of blood vessels, and eventually cause high blood pressure.

2. Diabetes is an equal risk factor for coronary heart disease, that is, diabetic patients are very likely to be complicated by coronary heart disease. If these diseases occur in adolescent obese patients, it will undoubtedly have a great impact on their future lives.

Tips: Teenagers should control their diet to avoid obesity, and control the amount of each meal to be seven or eight minutes full, and at the same time limit the intake of high-fat fat, such as carbonated drinks; Strengthen exercise, only by increasing the amount of exercise can you burn off the stored subcutaneous fat and maintain your figure.