Obesity Problem Child, The key's on Parents

Children whose parents attend classes counseling avoid obesity later in life. Parents learn how to reinforce positive behavior of children without using food as a reward or without the use of punishment.
Programs that teach parenting skills early on can help prevent obesity in children United States. The results of these studies have been published in the journal Pediatrics, February 6, 2012 edition.
The researchers found that, two programs aimed at preventing behavior problems in children from low-income families and urban preschool children seems to reduce the risk of obesity.
In one program, called ParentCorps, about 24 percent of children are obese at the age of 8 years. Compared with 54 percent of children who were in the comparison group who did not follow the program.
"The risk is lower obesity can be considered as a bonus, because the program was not really focused on the risk of obesity, exercise or diet of children. And the program is different from most of the efforts that have tried to solve the problem of obesity. Most programs aim to get children to eat less calorie-rich foods, exercise more, watch less TV. While most of these attempts have failed, "said Laurie Miller Brotman, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at New York University as reported from HealthNews, Wednesday (08/02/2012).
Parents are very involved in the child's behavior, because parents who organize and educate the child to have healthy behaviors. Focus on skills program aimed at parents, because many parents need to learn how to effectively to do so.
Pogram has been developed for low-income urban families with children at high risk of behavioral problems. Parents and preschool children attend 14 weekly sessions in the evening. Parents learn, among other things on how to reinforce good behavior of children and how to discipline without corporal punishment.
Meanwhile, children play games that teach social skills and how to overcome emotions. The research team observed 146 children who were randomly assigned to take part in ParentCorps or as a control group.
The reason that these programs can lower the obesity rate has not been clearly determined. Although the program does not focus on diet and exercise are the children, but the program can affect the things that improve parenting skills in organizing and educating children.