Currently, an estimated 300 million people worldwide who suffer from obesity. This amount is equivalent to the starving population. In the United States, according to 2003 data, children who are obese has reached 15 percent of the population. Meanwhile, in the country, according to Riskesdas 2010 there were 14 per cent of children aged 0-5 years who are overweight.
"Both obesity and obesity is not an issue of aesthetics or appearance. However, this is a disease. Although no national data, but obesity has become a pandemic in Indonesia," said Dr. Aman Bhakti Pulingan, SpA, a child endocrinologist from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia.
He explains, obesity is now categorized as a disease by experts from around the world. "Obesity is also a problem of economics as it pertains to the state health care costs," he said in a press conference Observe Excess Sugar Intake in Children's Milk, Wednesday (06/15/2011) in Jakarta.
Parents who have obese children are advised to begin taking steps to lose weight children to be children avoid the risk of disease.
"Return the child on a healthy lifestyle. Calorie intake should not exceed 1,600 per day, increase physical activity, and examine the components of eating," he added.
Research has shown, 1 in 6 overweight adolescents suffer from pre-diabetes, a condition when impaired glucose tolerance. "If it interfered with the correct diet for 20 months, then the child can be protected from diabetes. Remember! Once diabetes, diabetic children will be lifelong," he said.
He also recommends that parents of children who are overweight or suffer from diabetes should perform blood sugar checks. "Children aged 10 years are advised to check-up. But if you have risk factors, you should not postpone the examination until a child is a teenager," he said.
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