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Parental Check List re Overweight Teenagers
There are number of ways to help a teen to cope with their obesity as well as helping them lose weight safely. Often, obesity treatment programs which have been devised for teens rarely have weight loss as a goal, but rather they aim to slow or halt any weight gain so that the teen will grow into their body weight over the next few months or years. It is estimated that for every 20% excess of body weight a teen has, they will need about 1½ years weight maintenance to obtain their ideal body weight. So, early and appropriate intervention on the part of the parent is particularly valuable. It has been found that modifying a teens eating and exercise habits is much easier to do than with an adult. The three forms of intervention that a parent could use are as follows: Physical Activity By adopting a formal exercise program, or just simply becoming more active, you will help to burn fact and increase the amount of energy a teen expends. Studies have shown that exercise, as well as coupling it with one of the other forms of intervention, is a successful way to help them lose weight safely. Diet It is advisable that you do not allow your teen to fast or drastically reduce their calorie intake. Not only is this way of losing weight psychologically stressful on them, but it may adversely affect their growth, and what a teen sees as “normal eating”. So making sure that they have a balanced diet, with moderate restrictions on the amount of calories they have, is ideal. A great way is to reduce dietary fat, which has been found as a successful way of treating teens that are overweight. It may be that your teen needs to be educated on the nutritional values of foods, also. So by controlling a teen’s diet, and getting them to do more exercise, will help to treat their weight problem. Modification of a Teens Behavior There are many behavioral strategies that are used on adults, which can be successfully applied to teens, such as: 1. Self monitoring and recording the food they have 2. Increased physical activity 3. Slowing the rate at which they eat their food
4. Limiting the time and place when eating (do not allow them to sit in front of the TV or computer, get them to sit at the dining table) 5. Provide them with rewards and incentives, if their behavior is what you are looking for Hopefully, this checklist will guide you with ways in which you can help your teen with any weight issues they may have. However, it is easier to prevent a teen from being overweight, than it is to treat it. Where prevention is concerned, it focuses on educating the parents about providing their children with a good nutritional diet and plenty of physical activity. However, where such preventive measures can not help those teens who suffer from weight problems because of a heredity factor, then the education of the parents should be focused on building up their teens self esteem, and addressing any psychological issues that they may have.
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