ÇOCUKLUK ÇAĞI OBEZİTESİ
CHILDHOOD OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY

Summary/Abstract: The increasing prevalence at an alarming rate of childhood overweight and obesity, remains a global health concern. The aim of this study is to investigate the global health risk of childhood overweight and obesity by determining the reasons for childhood obesity is an on-going process. This review presents a synthesis of research conducted by the author. The search for scientific literature relevant to this review was performed using US National Library of Medicine (PubMed), MEDLINE and SportDiscus databases and the terms ‘Childhood Overweight’, ‘Factors of obesity’ and ‘Childhood obesity’. In the child years obesity is a complicated health problem that happens when a child above the normal or healthy weight for his or her age and height. The causes of excessive fat gain in childhood act like those in adults, including factors such as a person's eating disorders, reduced physical activity and genetics. Since a certain part of obese children become obese adults, the increase in childhood obesity affects adulthood obesity directly. This increase in childhood obesity is not specific to a country, it is now a worldwide problem that can significantly influence on their physical wellbeing, social, and enthusiastic prosperity, and self confidence.

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