April Is National Child Abuse Prevention Month - 30 Tips and Facts in 30 Days

With certainty, fattening kids up by making them overweight/obese is child abuse.

Nutritional child abuse is the most common form of child abuse of which we are aware. About one-third of all kids are overweight or obese. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month in the USA. To help these children, who are arguably the most abused on earth, Fitness Watch will offer 30 tips and facts – one for each day in April – directed at saving the children. Even if you are not from the USA, these facts and tips can help you and your children, too.

Today’s Fact and Tip – It is better for a child never to have been overweight/obese than it is for a child to have to be rescued from overweight/obesity.

Fat parents have fat kids.

If you are an overweight/obese adult and want to have children, do the best thing you can for your future children – wait until you lose the pounds.

Fat parents expose their children and themselves to more than the conditions mentioned on April 06.

Among these additional problems are:

· Labor and delivery complications
· Fetal and neonatal death
· Maternal complications (e.g. hypertension, gestational diabetes, preeclampsia)
· Delivery of large-for-gestational-age (LGA) infants
· Birth defects, especially neural tube defects
· Miscarriage
· More cesarean deliveries with higher rates of anesthesia complications and infections
· Longer stays in the hospital
· Premature delivery in women with high blood pressure, which increases the risk for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
· Blood clots
· Hospital costs for prenatal care were dramatically higher for overweight and obese women. Costs were fivefold to 16-fold greater than for normal-weight women, depending on how much extra weight the women carried.

Waiting a short while to shed the pounds in order to get your weight under control can save your children a lifetime of illness and hardship.

You should care enough to do the right thing.