1. IMPACT OF TODAY’S
LIFESTYLE ON OUR HEALTH.
-By
Falguni Kothari.

2. 1. Obesity & Overeating in Children.

3. • Eating has never and never will be simply
about satisfying physical hunger. We eat
not only to quell a rumbling stomach, but
also to satisfy the appetite and deal with
emotions.
• From the moment a parent first offers a
biscuit or sweet to comfort and quiet a
child, food becomes a way of nourishing
the soul as well as the body.
• From the earliest age food is used to
celebrate, calm, relieve boredom or
depression and to comfort in times of
sadness and emotional distress.
• The problem comes when emotionally
driven food habits take over from healthy
eating and result in uncontrolled weight
gains.

4. • Scientists using a new way to look at data
concluded that the main reason
that obesity has risen sharply in recent
decades is predominantly because of over-
eating rather than lack of physical activity.
• Being concerned with the causes of
childhood obesity is a good idea for any
parent; only when you address the actual
causes of this condition,can you really and
truly aim to fix it.
• Ignoring the problem will not make it go
away, and when a child grows up
overweight or obese it’s that much more
difficult to keep the weight under control as
an adult.

5. • Children just don’t go outside and play anymore; usually they spend their free
time playing video games or computer games or watching television.
• Physical inactivity is one of those causes of childhood obesity; the body must
burn the calories it ingests from eating, as any extra calories not burned off are
stored as fat.
• Today people also typically drive everywhere rather than walk. Children take
the bus to school and are often driven to the bus stop itself. They’re driven to
their friend’s house and to the corner store.
• And when it’s time to do chores around the house we have many labor-saving
devices that limit physical activity as well.
• All of this inactivity and lack of physical exertion is part of those causes of
childhood obesity.

6. Causes of Childhood Obesity Can Be Unhealthy Food.
• The diet that most people follow is also part of those
causes of childhood obesity.
• Most food that people eat is very unhealthy; it’s
typically prepared with added oil, butter, and sugar to
enhance the flavor. Unfortunately this also enhances
the calorie count! Fast food and junk food are two
prime culprits.
• Hamburgers, fries, potato chips, and items like these are
very calorie-dense meaning they have a lot of calories
for the amount of food you get.
• Fast food restaurants are definitely some common
causes of childhood obesity! Included in this are the
many vending machines that are just about everywhere,
including the schools, that contain sugary foods and
sodas as well. It’s not unusual for children to eat
literally thousands and thousands of excess calories
every week, even if it doesn’t seem as if anyone is
overeating.

7. • Overeating leads to weight gain, and can most times be
blamed on parents.
• From infancy, many parents, force children to eat more
than they need, even when they indicate they are full.
• A child will never starve themselves if they are healthy,
so parents should listen to their children. Mothers also
need to know that the child’s stomach will stretch, if
they are forced to overeat.
• This is the reason why children of the same age will eat
different quantities, because what may fill one child’s
stomach may well be too much for another.
• As the saying goes “we must eat to live, not live to
eat” and this is no different for children. We should
never eat, or force them to eat to the point where they
are uncomfortable.

8. • Television (TV) has its good side. It can be
entertaining and educational, and can open up
new worlds for kids, giving them a chance to
travel the globe, learn about different
cultures, and gain exposure to ideas they may
never encounter in their own community. Shows
with a prosocial message can have a positive
effect on kids' behavior; programs with positive
role models can influence viewers to make
positive lifestyle changes.
• However, the reverse can also be true:
 Kids are likely to learn things from TV that
parents don't want them to learn. TV can affect
kids' health, behavior and family life in negative
ways.

9. Television viewing and childhood obesity.
• A recent study published in The American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that the
more hours spent watching television, the
more likely children were to be both fatter
and less physically active.
• Children spend a substantial portion of their
lives watching T.V. Investigators have
hypothesized that T.V. viewing causes
obesity by one or more of three mechanisms:
 Decrease in physical activity,
 increased calorie consumption while
watching or caused by the effects of
advertising, and
 reduced resting metabolism.

10. • The relationship between television viewing and obesity has been
examined in a relatively large number of studies.
• The studies suggest that reducing television viewing may help to reduce
the risk for obesity or help promote weight loss in obese children.
• One school-based, experimental study was designed specifically to
test directly the causal relationship between television viewing
behaviors and body fat. The results of this randomized, controlled trial
provide evidence that television viewing is a cause of
increased body fatness and that reducing television viewing is a
promising strategy for preventing childhood obesity.

11. Overeating blamed on TV Background noise.
• This isn’t the first time that someone has suggested that you not eat in
front of the television. Generally the reasoning is that you will pay more
attention to how much you are eating when you are not focused on your
favorite show.
• The BBC is reporting recent research that suggests that the background
noise of the television actually diminishes how much you taste the foods
you are eating.
• When you eat in front of the television, you may be less aware of how
much you are eating, you may not experience the full flavor of the
food, and you will likely get less enjoyment out of what you are eating.
• All of these can tempt you to eat more than planned or go for the extra
sweetness of dessert. Silly or not, convenient or not, sitting at the table
and focusing on what you are eating is probably a very effective
technique to control how much you ingest.

12. Causes of Childhood Obesity Can Be Fixed.
• These common causes of childhood obesity can be addressed by
any responsible parent.
• There’s no need to go to extremes and expect your child to
become a star athlete or to never have a Burger again, but being
balanced and moderate can go a long way in this regard.
• It is never easy to give up foods we love.
• Mealtime should be a time for family growth and development.
• In this culture we're living in, it's so important that kids get clear
messages about food and healthy eating.

13. 1. Change parent’s lifestyle.
• As parents we have to be a good example
in the application of lifestyle and eating
healthy.
• Parents should educate themselves on the
preparation of healthy, nutritious, but
low-calorie meals, and in turn teach their
children how to be more selective in the
food they eat.
• The best approach is to eat in small
portions, and find healthier ways to
prepare meals, such as broiling rather than
frying.
• This is a life style, and life time, change to
reduce obesity.

14. 2. Spare time to
exercise.
• Discover our children
preferred activities and
interesting that can burn
calories.
• For example:
 running,
 swimming,
 walking (jogging),
 cycling.
Do this on a regular basis.

15. 3. Change family bad eating habits.
• Give food to children only if
they are hungry and not
because just want to eat
something.
• If the children just ate and
want to eat again try to divert
their activities or provide
something else, because we
know they are not really
hungry.
• Never eat or snack for
watching TV.

16. 4. Give our support.
• Do not keep junk food, soft drinks
which are rich in sugar, high fat foods
(potato chips, etc.) at home.
• Prepare a diet low in fat and healthy
for the whole family.
• Follow the exercise activity.

17. 5. Give notice or praise if children are doing something good.
• Rewards and praise can motivate
children to stay on a diet.
• For example if our children is in a
1-week initiative to drink water
instead of soft drinks then praise
them, give the gift fun toy or activity,
but DO NOT give food as gifts.

18. 6. Consult a Dietician.
• Consult our child to the Dietician
to control diet and also weight
checked every 2-4 weeks.
• Avoid weighing children at any
time at home because it may
cause stress on our child.

19. 2. Facebook Tied to Poor Mental Health
in Teens, Kids?

20. • If you’re a teenager you’re most likely on a social
networking site like ―Facebook.‖ For most it’s a fun, easy
way to keep in touch and find out what’s going on with
friends.
• But new research shows a growing number of youngsters
who obsess over the on-line sites may be headed down a
troubled path.
• Social media sites present a false reality to youngsters
through friends, contacts, status updates and happy
pictures of popular contacts. To emotionally vulnerable
youngsters who are yearning for popularity, this may make
them more depressed.
• Texting, emails and spending time on social networking
sites can increase mood swings and make them obsessive
about online issues instead of getting back to the real
world.
• There is little proof that using Facebook and other social
networking websites like it cause significant or
meaningful health or mental health problems in the vast
majority of teens or kids who use them.

21. • Psychological studies have
showed that heavy Facebook
use among children and
teenagers may cause a variety
of worrisome mental health
problems.
• Children, pre-teens and
teenagers who used technology,
like the Internet and video
games, on a regular basis have
more:
 stomach aches,
 sleeping problems,
 anxiety and
 depression.
They also miss school more often
(I’m sick I don’t want to go to
school… low energy… fatigue…
trouble sleeping.)

22. Lower School Performance.
• Studies have shown
that extensive use of
social networking sites
lowers attention spans,
resulting in lower
grades.
• Addiction to anything
is bad; Facebook is
addicting.

23. • Teenagers and young adults
who are persistently logged
on to Facebook are more
often to show psychological
disorders, like
 mania,
 paranoia,
 aggressive tendencies,
antisocial behavior and
 increased alcohol use.
• These teens also more often
displayed narcissistic
tendencies, which are fed by
their ability to constantly
broadcast information about
themselves through
Facebook.

24. Waste of life!
• Facebook can be very addictive for its members. Once you stay connected with
friends, you will realize how often you login for another chat and discover what other
members are doing.It can result in the neglect of real-life social situations (more than 3.5
billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day - worldwide).
• Many hours may also pass and you could have done something more important than
using Facebook. Several members of social networking sites actually use them
throughout the day and night without any sense at all.
• A study has shown that 22% of teens check in into their Facebook account more than 10
times per day.
• The average user has 120+ friends, but not all of them are necessarily ―real‖ friends.

25. Job Termination.
How can he get me Fired???
• I know,you miss your relatives and
want to keep in touch, but facebook at
work should be avoided.
• 72% of companies’ employees spend
1 – 1.5 hours on social networking sites
(including facebook) per day.
• Not Productive

26. Self - Induced Insomnia.
• People spend countless
hours on this site looking
to ―add‖ people they sort
of know so they can be
friends.
• Many use this as an
alternative to real social
interaction.

27. Ruining your professional life!
• You might be one of those millions of people who are unemployed and use
Facebook to post offensive images of you and your friends. Though it is fun
and provides humour for all your friends to see, it can be a major drawback
when you apply for a job.
• Employers will want to know more about you and by searching on these social
networking sites which contain your offensive content, employers may get
distressed and could result in losing the job role that you applied for.
• There might have been a high chance of getting the job, but because of your
social network page, your chances were ruined. The first site they would
search would be on Facebook because it’s the most popular. More people are
leaving other social networking sites for Facebook itself.

28. • An influential group of doctors has warned that
teenagers can suffer from "Facebook depression"
after becoming obsessed with the social networking
website. The term Facebook depression came from a
AAP of a Clinical Report called The Impact of Social
Media on Children, Adolescents, and
Families, authored by Gwenn Schurgin
O’Keeffe, pediatrician and journalist, and Kathleen
Clarke-Pearson
• "Facebook depression," in which a teen becomes
anxious and moody after spending a lot of time on the
popular social networking site.
• Causes are nothing specific as it is really difficult to
check what a particular kid is doing in his Facebook
account. Although many parents keep an eye on kid’s
accounts but kids are smart and clever enough these
days. They uses all possible steps and things to hide
their activities from their parents.
• According to the American Academy of
Pediatrics, social media had the power to "interfere
with homework, sleep and physical activity" among
the young.

29. Facebook 'cancer risk'
• According to the Daily Mail, using
Facebook ―could raise your risk of
cancer‖. The newspaper reported that
social networking sites ―could raise
your risk of serious health problems by
reducing levels of face-to-face contact‖.
• Increased isolation could alter the way
genes work and upset immune
responses, hormone levels and the
function of arteries. It could also impair
mental performance.
• This could increase the risk of problems
as serious as cancer, strokes, heart
disease and dementia

30. • Looking at all these drawbacks, your life will become
a waste of time and avoid you from doing more
enjoyable activities than having to sit on your seat
and type away for many hours.
• Facebook is good for staying in contact with friends,
but you need to understand that these sites can be
used to some extent, but not over the limit.

31. • The AAP has set guidelines
recommending that parents educate
themselves and their children to the
dangers of social networking.
• Some of these guidelines reported how
parents should become better educated
about the numerous technologies their
children are using and to talk to their
children about online use and the issues
that children face using social
networks.
• ―Parents do need to be educated so that
they know what is going on in their
children’s life,‖

32. • ―The primary issue with parents is
building self-esteem at home so that
children will have a strong sense of
self-confidence in who they are and
won’t have to look to others for
validation from their peers.‖
• ―The only way to avoid Facebook
depression, is to not use the Internet as
a primary need of networking,‖
• "As kids have increasingly open lines of
communication with their peers
online, it is extremely important that
parents keep the lines of
communication with their kids just as
open so they can have a sense of what is
going on in their social lives ... both
online and offline,"

33. • "Like anything else in life, too much time on Facebook — or the
Internet in general, for that matter — can be a bad thing."
Balanced life
• One way to potentially prevent
children from entering this
type of depression is to make
sure they engage in a variety of
activities,
And kids who have a balanced
life, who do schoolwork, who
do after-school activities, who
are in teams, who are in clubs,
who do community service
have a much lesser chance of
becoming depressed.

34. • Healthy eating and regular physical
activity habits are keys to maintaining a
healthy weight. Help your child on his or
her path toward wellness and better health
by preventing overeating.
• Because, It’s Ultimately:
―Your lifestyle - how you live,
eat,
emote,
and think –
determines your health.
To prevent disease,
you may
have
to
change how you live.‖

35. References:
• http://www.medindia.net/news/healthwatch/Television-Viewing-A-Major-
Cause-of-Obesity-Among-US-Children-82903-1.htm
• http://www.myoptumhealth.com/portal/Information/item/Kids+and+Overeating
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• http://www.obesityfactssite.com/causes-of-childhood-obesity/
• http://kidsparenting.net/health/tips-to-prevent-and-treat-child-obesity-
problems.html
• http://www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/facebook-depression-rare-but-serious-side-
effect-of-social-networking--1318/
• http://www.nhs.uk/news/2009/02February/Pages/Facebookhealthstudy.aspx
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risk-cancer.html
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health-problems-in-kids-studies-show/

36. - By Kothari Falguni.
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