Adolescent Obesity is a leading health problem in current times. And thousands of teen boys and girls are suffering from acute complications of Obesity. Body fat weakens the heart, breath, and joints and badly affects the teen’s mental health. The best strategy to treat adolescent Obesity is to improve eating habits and start exercising. 

Parents’ wise steps at the right time can provide their teens with good health now and in the future. 

• Research shows that 1 in 3 adolescents with obesity will develop type 2 diabetes by the time they reach adulthood.
• Obese adolescents are at a higher risk for developing sleep apnea, a condition where breathing stops and starts during sleep.
• Studies show that teen obesity can lead to earlier onset of puberty in girls, affecting their hormonal development.
• Lack of sleep in obese adolescents has been linked to increased hunger and a preference for high-calorie foods.
• Interventions that involve the family have a significantly higher success rate in preventing and managing adolescent obesity.

Adolescent Obesity is a serious and long-term nutritional and medical condition that is surely not gaining a few extra pounds. When teens have a habit of eating more calories than they consume, then the fat builds up in the body. Ultimately, the body gets to where its health can be at stake because of the body fat. 

If the teenager’s weight is 10 percent higher than recommended for his height, age, and body type, then the child is dealing with adolescent obesity. Teenage Obesity has its roots in childhood obesity. 

If a child is overweight between the age of 5 to 12, then there is over an 80 percent chance he will also deal with obesity during the age between 12 to 19. 

Terms such as obese or overweight are used when someone is at risk of developing health problems.

The question of what causes teenage obesity has many answers. A combination of multiple reasons causes teen obesity. Here are some major causes of obesity in adolescence.

One of the major reasons teens become overweight is when they take more calories than their body burns. When a teen eats more high-calorie food but his body is using fewer calories for energy, then he is surely going to gain weight. 

When there is an imbalance between calorie intake and its usage, the teen will get obese

The kids who eat more, don’t exercise, and burn fewer calories are more likely to get fat. Because without physical activities, calories will not get burned, and they will be stored in the body and eventually changed into obesity.

Obesity passes down through genes. If even one parent is obese, the teen is also at the risk of gaining weight. 

Genes may not be that affected, but in a place where fast food is everywhere, and no one encourages physical exercise, childhood and adolescent obesity becomes one of the serious health issues.

Stress can increase the risk of Obesity in the teen, and it can be either personal or family stress. To cope with their stress and other overwhelming emotions such as boredom and anxiety, children eat more than they should, and such cases also lead to Obesity.

Obesity affects not only adolescent physical development but also mental health. Fat doesn’t bring good things with it. The teen has to go through a lot if he is dealing with Obesity. 

There will be constant serious health problems that will affect his growth and well-being.

Obesity is the major cause of type 2 diabetes in young adolescents 12 to 19. A hormone that controls sugar (glucose) in the blood is insulin. Obesity resists the movement and growth of insulin in the body; sugar (glucose) in the blood gets higher than it should be. 

And lack of insulin leads to the complication of diabetes.

Childhood and adolescent obesity can become the cause of this deadly high blood pressure complication. When blood pressure gets higher, then the heart has to perform harder. If the condition gets repeated for a longer time, it can become the cause of stroke or heart attack later in life.

High cholesterol is the biggest rival of the heart. High cholesterol narrows down the arteries that carry the blood to the heart. Because of the narrowed arteries, the blood flow to the heart decreases, increasing the chances of a heart attack when a person gets older.

In teen girls, adolescent Obesity and infertility have little distance. Girls face puberty and reproduction issues because of Obesity. Abdominal Obesity causes many problems once teen girls reach the age of fertility, leaving many complications during pregnancy.

Due to extra weight on the joints, the knees and hips get badly affected, and later it ends up being an ongoing pain in the joints.

Asthma is one of the earliest problems an obese teen gets to suffer. With time, he also starts having trouble sleeping, called sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a serious condition where for a short time, a child stops breathing during his sleep.

Doctors may not tell you about this complication, but Obesity has a severely adverse effect on a teen’s mind. He loses confidence and gets bullied by others because of being overweight. This can cause being depressed or having anxiety issues. Their emotional and psychological health suffers from physical health.

Adolescent weight management is crucial if parents want their kids to not suffer from obesity complications. For this purpose, parents need to bring a few reforms in their living style.

Parents should also adopt a healthy lifestyle. Make healthy eating habits. Cut out sugar and high-calorie food from the diet. So the kid will look up to his parents and will be doing what he sees.

Everyone benefits from exercise. Encourage the kid to do physical activity or exercise for at least 60 minutes to balance the ratio of calorie intake and burn.

Affirmations and positive conversations strongly impact a kid’s mind. So parents should spend time with their child and make him aware of all the consequences of Obesity if he doesn’t stop eating all the junk and sugar. 

Motivate him to cancel all the food that is internally harming him and encourage him to take healthy steps for a healthy lifestyle.

Adolescence is when a person is transitioning from childhood to adulthood. How a person acts during this time depends on that person’s development. Adolescents tend to behave differently than the way they did during their childhood years. 

Some of the most obvious ways for parents to know that their child is growing up is to watch how they are handling money, expressing feelings, engaging in enjoyable activities, and making decisions.

A child’s experiences during this time are more significant than most people realize. And so are the changes that can help them become better adults. 

For example, adolescence can be a period of experimentation with identity and values and an opportunity to break out of an unhealthy relationship, experiment with drugs and alcohol, get tattoos and piercings, and learn about sexual relationships. 

While some of these behaviors are not necessarily bad, they can become unhealthy habits if they continue into adulthood.