Childhood obesity: weight loss should not only focus on speed, but also pay attention to monitoring overall growth and development indicators
Many children nowadays are "little chubby". What are the adverse effects of obesity on children's growth and development, and how can traditional Chinese medicine prevent and regulate it?
Rong Ping, Vice President of the First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, stated that traditional Chinese medicine believes that obesity belongs to the category of "ointment people", "fat people", and "fat people". The reasons for this include congenital genetic factors, as well as postnatal dietary habits, prolonged sitting, lack of exercise, insufficient or excessive sleep. There are also some emotional disorders, such as strict requirements from parents, high academic pressure on children, and a combination of various factors that affect the function of the spleen and stomach in promoting clear and reducing turbidity, leading to the accumulation of fat, phlegm, and dampness in the body, resulting in obesity. Obesity affects children's growth and development in many ways and in many systems, including cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, childhood asthma, snoring, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, precocious puberty, psychological problems, etc.
