Dietary fats have children?

One in three children is overweight or nearly 25 million American children, and that number continues to rise.

In fact, in just the past 30 years, the number of overweight children has doubled. Fifty years has had only a small percentage of the population problems with her weight. Now we have an epidemic, including among children. This is very serious, such as overweight as a child can lead to type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and many other health problems.

While many are quick to blame inactivity and more TV watching and video game playing, along with simple overeating, for this increase, I think there is another factor involved. This increase in obesity in children is also happening as we clear the number of foods and dietary fats in our diet, including soft drinks, chips, fat, low-fat dinner, appetizers, have increased and more.

Around the turn of the century, there were NO diet foods, and we ate more fat, including more butter and cream and red meat, and very few people were overweight and even fewer were obese.

So what is going on?  Should you be buying your children low-fat diet foods to help them lose weight?

Low Calorie Diet Foods Lead to Overeating and Obesity

According to an article in the journal "Obesity," published in August, 2007, researchers have found that when children eat low-calorie versions of foods that are high in calories, overeating takes place and that leads to obesity.

Author of the study, David Pierce said, "on the basis of what is learned (we), it is better to eat for children to healthy, balanced diet with sufficient calories for their daily activities rather than low-calorie snacks or meals".

Diet Foods Condition You to Want More

Although eating diet foods may also lead to obesity and ill health for adults, it seems that for children, there is another factor going on. It seems that to condition the use of diet drinks and other food nutrition from an early age they want to eat more to appear, because you can eat more food with less calories diet.

Another study at the University of Massachusetts corroborates this. There was a connection between drinking diet soda and a higher risk of obesity, with higher rates of heart disease and diabetes.

Eat Well Balanced Meals Instead of Diet Foods

Although the study referenced above did use rats, not children, the researchers feel that since the young animals were made to overeat when given low-calorie foods and drinks on a daily basis, this is directly applicable to our children.

As we have seen, the high rates of obesity among our young people climbing el. Mr. Pierce recommended to use antiquated methods to keep your children fit and healthy as eating balanced meals and exercise regularly.

 He goes on to admit that "diet foods are probably not a good idea for growing youngsters.

We have full agreement. We need to go back to real foods, for both children and adults, and cut out the diet foods, the low-fat foods, the pre-packaged foods, and the fast foods. We have fed whole fruits, vegetables, meat and dairy products from grass and eat whole grains.

You need to remember that children are growing and need more calories than an adult of their size. You do not want to feed a diet low in calories and low in fat, especially not on a diet.

Kids need good quality fats for their brains and reproductive growth especially. In addition to real food back, it's also true that just to play too much TV or video games, rather than the exercise of all is open to bad for all of us, and your children are no different. Set a good example for them and encourage some outdoor activity on most days, along with exercising yourself.

This, combined with real food to meet your children and maintaining a healthy weight and normal.