How do young people avoid the risk of being overweight?

 Suad Abdul Rahman asks, how do i spare my young children the risk of being overweight?

Dr. Iman Sultan, consultant endocrinologist and therapeutic nutrition at the National Institute of Nutrition, answers this question, saying that obesity in children is spreading at great rates, and this is due to the lifestyle change of eating fast food high calories and fat, in addition to inactivity Sitting in front of the computer and tv, this in turn leads to complications due to the occurrence of excessive weight such as high blood pressure, injury to type 2 diabetes, problems with the motor system such as roughjoints and impaired blood lipids.

Therefore, children should be taken care of and do not become obese and their weights should not exceed the normal rate for age and sex, as well as not allowing the child to sit in front of the TV and computer for more than two hours a day, encourage the child to eat healthy and balanced food as well as eat enough of Vegetables and fruits, in light of a real lifestyle change and reduce fat, fried and carbonated water even the type that is sugar-free known as "diet", as well as attention to reducing sugars and all kinds of foods concentrated sugar.

Iman warned of the need for continuous weight monitoring so that any defect can be treated as soon as possible, with daily exercise for a period of half an hour to an hour per day.