Obesity simplex: Childhood Obesity Management Without Food Intake Reduction.
The management of childhood obesity (once established) should not involve a reduction of food intake (as a means for reducing the body weight).
Children (obese or not) require a balanced diet which can support the growth and maturation processes.
Restricting the food intake can introduce the risk of a lack of one or more essential nutrients.
Instead the aim should be to maintain the weight constant whilst the child grows in height. By so doing the weight and height should ultimately be compatible with each other.
Thus the RELIED 500 Cal Plan (in its entirety) is not recommended for the management of Obesity simplex in children.
However, introducing in the childs daily routine, one or more activities aimed at producing a raised expenditure (RE) of energy is to be encouraged.
It is worth noting that in 1994, E. Obarzanek and his associates showed that both obesity and blood cholesterol levels correlate with hours of television viewing (Volume 60 of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, pages 15 to 22).
[Note: Children also spend a lot of time working at computers and playing video games].
TV viewing may have the added effect of fostering snacking, often on foods that are rich in calories (chocolates, sweets, peanuts, potato crisps/chips, etc.).
[Note: TV advertising of the above foods can play a significant part in this]
