The Cure to Obesity

There are a lot of health risks associated with obesity; these risks include but are not limited to coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and sleep apnea. For some reason from the time when I grew up to today people have become less physically active. During the summer when I was a child and teenager I was outside all of the time. During the winter I was playing in snow all day. Today it seems like no one is playing outside anymore. Some school districts have shortened gym class time or students do not take gym for the entire school year. Where is the physical activity in today’s kids’ schedules? To fix the problem of childhood obesity is to give our children a more active community. Nutrition does play a major role in preventing obesity as well. I found that it is much harder to change a person’s activity level than their nutrition level. When a child eats it puts calories into his or her body. If the child is active and burns the calories off then there is no problem. These calories are energy that his or her body uses; if you are not using the energy your body turns the calories into fat. When the child becomes more physically active then you can get to the nutritional side of fitness. Take care of what will be more difficult to change first and then the nutritional side will become easier. My name is Sam Kiningham and I am a Youth Fitness Specialist under the IYCA. I work out of TEST Sports Clubs in Tinton Falls