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Changes in lifestyle and diet influenced the development of chronic non-infectious diseases. One is the shift from traditional diets to modern food, one of which contains an excess of added sugar.
Limit the decline in physical activity energy expenditure lead to metabolic syndrome and its accompanying diseases such as heart disease, hypertension, stroke and diabetes.
According to data from Health Research Association, in 2007 and 2010, the incidence of obesity in children under five years of the past three years increased from 12.2 percent to 14 percent.
Chairman of the Association of Pediatric Idonesia II Prof. Aman B Pulungan said, obesity is a disease that leads to diabetes. Despite 90 percent of diabetes comes from heredity or genetics, environmental influences greatly affect the incidence of obesity.
“Modern food is a delight children have the added sugar. Sugar makes people more and more over-eating,” he said in an Education Campaign entitled “Beware Dangers of Excess Sugar Consumption Extra” as quoted from vivanews.
In fact, too much sugar is in soft drinks such as containing 140 calories or 39 grams more than the daily requirement of sugar 5-8 teaspoons per day. “If consumed at each meal sugar intake can lead to insulin resistance that eventually led to diabetes.”
According to Prof. Aman, there are some characteristics of obese children who should ‘suspected’ to undergo diabetes, namely:
- More than 10 years of age and have a body mass index above the 85th percentile, or weight loss at 120 percentile.
- Have two other risk factors, namely obesity and diabetes in the history of the family and racial history. Race is a race of Asia’s most at risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
- In children found clinical signs of insulin resistance, among others, black and dirt on the neck, armpits and hands.
“When you find two of these three things in children, screening needs to be done. And general pediatricians have been informed,” he said.
Even in obese children under 10 years of age, when there are allegations of body mass index demonstrated obesity and family history, screening should be done immediately. “Pay attention to infants and children, if they look hard to walk, you should do the screening,” he said.
Chairman of the Association of Physician Nutrition Specialist Clinic, Prof. Taha Abdul Razak explained, Japan’s early prevention should be followed, especially since the Asian races have a high risk of diabetes. “In Japan there is a policy every time you enter a new school year all students underwent urine checks. And if detected will be screening,” he said.
The Japanese government also successfully applied to all the restaurants in the country showing how many calories the food served there. “While in Indonesia, fast-food restaurant we never put the calories in their food.”
How to protect obese children from Diabetes:
Early Prevention
Form the diet of children from an early age is an effort to create good habits for obesity and diabetes away from obese children.
According to Prof Razak, the introduction of healthy eating and balanced should be introduced since early. For example, when a child is introduced to complementary foods, give the food is relatively bad. “Introduce vegetables that have discomfort before the child knows food ‘good’ with many different flavors that we meet now,” he said.
The experts agree, there needs to campaign and educate people to choose healthier foods, increase awareness of the dangers of excessive sugar consumption. The government should also take steps to prevent and control due to the consumption of foods associated with excessive consumption of added sugar.
If your family have children with obesity, we must early prevention and following how to protect obese children from diabetes, and don’t forget to healthy lifestyle okay.
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