Obesity May Be Ruining Children’s Grades

A recent American study concluded that overweight or obese children may be doing worse on their exams specifically because of their weight problems.

According to the study’s author, Sara Gable: “Our study suggests that obesity in the early years of school, especially obesity that persists across the elementary grades, can harm children’s social and emotional well-being and academic performance.”

The overall implication being that these students perform worse in school due to their social insecurities regarding their weight.

Anxiety And Sadness As A Factor

Children’s poor success in school, in the case of both boys and girls, may in some cases be due to the fact that they are carrying feelings of anxiety, sadness, and even loneliness as a result of their weight as well as how they are treated by their schoolmates because of it.

Negative emotions like these are some times only a short-term consequence of childhood obesity, but in some cases a long-term issue can develop and remain with the person into their adult life.

Obesity is a growing problem – literally – throughout the entire western world.

The average percentage of children who are either obese or overweight for the majority of industrialised western countries is about 30%.

These problems are not only affecting individuals but are now branching out from parents passing on their habits to children.

The Struggles of the Australian Healthcare System

The healthcare system in Australia spends billions of dollars each year to treat patients for illnesses related to obesity like diabetes or heart disease, not to mention expensive weight-loss surgery.

The situation is no longer sustainable and drastic changes are required in the approaches currently used for helping to prevent people from becoming obese to begin with, as well as for assisting those who already are.

For example, hypnotherapy is, albeit unorthodox, a potentially very effective means for both treating and preventing obesity.

If you or your children are overweight and have been unable to remedy the problem through traditional means, hypnotherapy could be just what you need.

Please feel free to call us for a free, no-commitment consultation about the different ways that hypnotherapy can help you or your family with their obesity issues.

Hypnotherapy sessions for weight loss in Perth WA may be the things that finally helps you and your children make a positive change for real.

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