Psychological & Physical
March 17, 2009
Psychological & Physical Barriers Of A Chubby Toddler
It has been found that a chubby toddler growing up to be an overweight child has to face many types of discriminations at the social level.
Right from the school stage, such a child understands willy-nilly that he/she is not up to the mark – be it physical or intellectual exercises. Slowly but surely, the child starts suffering from inferiority complex. As the chubby toddler grows up, these mental pressures assume psychological ramifications.
The psychological strain is the cause of several physiological problems. Just because the teenager cannot perform like the peer group (and that’s primarily due to the accumulation of fat in the body), the youth starts having inferiority feelings.
During the teenage stage, the accumulated fat manifests into obesity! Obesity brings in other complications like high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis besides other ailments.
What Parents Must Not Do!
However, the parents should curtail the habit of supplying their children with chips, ice creams or any form of pastries on weekends to compensate for their failure to give time to their children on other days. This is done by the parents in the hope that it would compensate for their folly. But, this is how they are presenting their children with a lifetime of diseases!
It is in the childhood stage that the fats cells (adipose tissues) actually form their ultimate shape.
During adolescence the fat cells remain constant; but if there is a continuance of the gobbling habit. The fat cells assume abnormal shapes.
And, when the input (intake of the bad-fat food) keeps on unabated, the adipose muscles fail to store them. This dangerous accumulation of fats ultimately poses the threat to the very health and life of the person concerned.
Rate of formation of cells
The fat cells multiply in two ways. The fastest pace of the fat cells formation is during the initial growing years of a person. Secondly, the fat cells grow in number in accordance with the rise in pace of the storage capacity of the cells.
Normal children (slim and athletic) generally have three times less in the number of fat cells than those in their obese counterparts.
The fat cells that a child possesses remain constant for life after attaining the adolescence phase. Researchers have therefore concluded that the feeding habits of a child ultimately determine the lifetime number of fat cells of a person.
Therefore, parents must always remain alert as to what their children consume. Overfeeding can doom their loving future generation to a lifetime of obese effects!
Are obesity in teens same as obesity in older age?
No, they are not the same!
The adipose tissues have an auto mechanism that regulates the feedback in the fat cells (hypothalamic region of the body). More the amount of the fat cells, the higher is the deposits of the fat accumulation in the body.
Here we must make a difference of obesity of people in their middle age or older stage. This happens owing to the enlargement of the already present fat cells. This syndrome is called ‘Hyperbiophy’.
Patients suffering from hyperbiophy demonstrate a peculiar insulin secretion syndrome. Their bodies secrete excess insulin. It is the same as the process researchers have identified in animals having wounds (lesions) in the hypothalamus – especially in the ventromedial nuclei portion).
The latter (Hyperbiophy) is medically curable. More often than not, the former develops resistance to medical techniques.
Studies on fat accumulation on mice & man
Medical detectives have come across astounding similarities in mice and man insofar as the physiological and behavioral changes are concerned. This refers to the synthesis of fat acids, as well as the fast pace development of insulin production (hyperinsulinism) of human beings.
Surplus synthesis of the fat acids is caused due to the fast process of syntheses of fat acids particularly in obese people. As a result, the fat continues to be deposited in the body. This extra fat is, however, never released; it remains to give rise to various diseases.
Secondly, in obese people there is a remarkable reduction in the number or the strength of the lipase that is hormone sensitive and plays a pivotal role in the reduction of the adipose tissues (that store the fat). Hence, the fat that gets accumulated is not removed.
