Help your Kids put their best foot forward…
ATTENTION Parents !!
Where is the Nutrition ??
The young generation of today, our children, are facing a serious health challenge.
Lavish, indulgent lifestyles, poor nutrition, lack of physical activity and emotional stress are taking its toll of our children’s health. The problem is growing day by day and becoming increasingly visible – highly obese children, obsessively slim children, poor eyesight, tooth decay, depression amongst teenagers, drug and alcohol abuse, emotional disorders, etc. It is no longer an urban phenomenon, this trend is more and more evident even in smaller Indian cities and towns.
What Has Gone Wrong ?
Most of the health challenges that our kids face today are a result of regular and continuous NUTRITION ABUSE. Improper, inadequate nutrition during growing years, poor awareness, too much of high fat, high calorie junk foods – has gradually deprived our children of the right to lead a healthy lifestyle.
Wake Up Call : Our Kids Are Prone To Lifestyle Diseases
According to WHO , World Bank and Harvard School of Public Health by 2020 AD, 3 million Indian children will be affected by non – communicable lifestyle diseases – obesity, eating disorders, hypertension, juvenile diabetes, type II diabetes, heart disease – previously seen only in adults. We are parenting an extremely unhealthy and disease prone younger generation.
The situation is GRAVE. As parents we have to wake up to the facts and act fast to nutritionally secure our children’s future or a bleak unhealthy future awaits them !
Nutrition Gone Wrong : The Fact File
1 out of every six teenagers in India is overweight
In Delhi alone, 3 percent of overweight teenagers are diabetic and as high as 35% teenagers suffer from high blood pressure (hypertension).
53 percent of children between 10 and 14 years and 45 percent between 15 and 19 years snack on fatty, salty and sugary junk foods every day.
25 percent of adolescents from high / middle income households have high blood cholesterol, an important reason why heart disease is striking Indians at younger ages.
11 – 18 year old children are increasingly complaining of cavities, bleeding gums and poor dental health.
Too much TV, Internet and bad reading habits have resulted in 15 – 20 percent of teenagers wearing glasses.
40 percent of schools going children suffer from anxiety disorders , stress and depression.
Get your kids on the road to good health…
