Obesity is the number one silent killer in the United States, the unfortunate thing is that most people and children especially don’t even realize that they are obese until they are suffering medical issues because of it. Some of the medical conditions stem from shortness of breath, high sugar levels, high blood pressure, stomach problems and there are many more.
Obese children are effected in many ways from obesity, it is not just a physical condition like most people think. This condition will affect them physically, mentally, emotional, and spiritually if it get out of control. The fact of it is every part of their life will suffer an impact from their obese condition in honest reality.
The very first and most noticed area they will be effected is the physical aspect of things such as sports or outside activities, they will not be able to perform physical activates as average weight children do and when that happens they are made fun of and harassed by the other children and the other children don’t want them to participate in sporting activities any longer. So they give up on doing physical activities all together and start to isolate and keep to themselves.
This brings us to the mental state where they are now at, they are starting to be hard on themselves not wanting to do the physical activities because they have tried and were ridiculed for it by others and put down. they start to doubt if they will ever amount to anything in life which makes they isolate even more and avoid people all together.
This brings us to the next stage of the obesity situation which is the emotional area were the child that is obese is filled with fear and has a negative attitude about themselves. They have all of their emotions running wild and most likely won’t talk about it even if they are to be confronted, they will say everything is ok on the outside but on the inside they are hurting so bad they don’t know what to do so they avoid friends, family, and authority figures at school and isolate even father.
Now that they have gone through all that they start to slipping depression they look down at themselves as a failure they might not talk much they might start eating more to hide the pained they are feeling. They feel sorry for themselves and at that point they feel like such an outcast they just walk around like a lost soil slipping father into depression well out of the reach of others.
Everything I have methane makes up the spiritual making of every person and when an obese child gets to this point their spirit is lost the don’t feel like they should have been born and they don’t understand why it is happening to them and they look for help but usually won’t say anything because they are so far gone they feel like a lost soul, alone and unique, kind of like they are being punished.
The very last thing that I must touch upon I suicide, if you take all of the items I have mention and add the up it is some time to big of a burden to carry and without help the outcome is very bad in some cases so if you happen to notice a change in your child’s attitude or daily activities, or the start to isolate then please confront them until you get it out of them. So those are the ways that obese children are affected by this silent killer and unfortunately it is a long process that sometimes goes unnoticed until it is too late. So watch closely if your child is obese for the early warning signs I have mentioned and those are only a few.
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