Predominance of Coccobacilli

I had my first pap smear last month and when the result came out, I have a severe infection. According to my pap smear comments, I had severe inflammation abundant neutrophils and predominance of coccobacilli consistent with shift in vaginal flora.

My obgyne prescribed to take doxycycline for 7 days to be taken twice a day. She also give me neo-penotran (metrodinozole), a vaginal suppository for 7 days. This suppository should be inserted into the vagina up to the cervix before going to bed.

At first, I was hesitant to insert it because it is my first time to do it, but I want to get rid of my infection so I have no choice but to insert it. If you prefer to use you hand, be sure to wash it properly to avoid any other infection

After one week of treatment, I don’t have any heavy vaginal discharge. Before my pap smear, I never thought that I have bacterial vaginal infection because I don’t feel any pain, itch and burning while urinating. I just only noticed that I have an excessive amount of yellowish vaginal discharge.

My Daughter Food and Diet

My daughter is complaining about her stomach ache and at the same with vomiting. After a few hours of observing her condition, I and my husband decided to go the hospital for check up. The doctor or physician get urine and blood sample for testing and find out that there is a bacterial infection in her urine or urinary tract infection (UTI). Thanks God, that is only mild infection so she is not admitted to the hospital. The doctor gives her only antibiotic to be taken twice a day for 7 days and medicine for her abdominal pain.

Recently we eat frequently in the fast food and my daughter favorite menu is fried chicken. Often times, fried chicken from fast food is salty and my daughter drinks only a few waters that’s why she gets her urinary tract infection. I blame myself because for the past days I have been very busy so I was not able to cook good food for my family.

As of now, I really mean to watch out my daughter’s food. I see to it that she drinks a lot of water and eat fresh fruits. Avoid sugary snack and salty snack such as chocolate cookies, softdrinks and candies. As much as possible I give her a lot of juices including cranberries juice, calamansi juice and lemon juice. Also, I follow nutritional guidelines for my family.

Baby Sleep Schedule

For new parents out there, there are very curious in terms of how much time their newborn baby should sleep. Below information is adapted from wyeth brochure taken when I was pregnant.

The first few days will pass by in one big blur. Baby’s schedule may be erratic for the first few weeks. He may seem to be awake all the time! Again, take it easy.

Not all babies are regular as the clock. Newborn average 16 hours of sleeps a day and may remain drowsy the rest of the time. It is not strange for a baby to sleep as little as eight hours a day.

In time, baby will sleep longer at night by the time he or she reaches eleven pounds. Although baby will set a schedule that is convenient for him, you can nevertheless influence one that is more or less to your advantage. You can keep baby awake in the morning so your baby will tire out and go to sleep longer at night. Talk to your baby while feeding and do not offer toys and playtime as distractions.

At night, feed baby in a quiet room or play soft, soothing music and keep the light low. Put baby to bed as soon as you’ve burped him.

Put baby to bed on his side or flat on his back. Do not let baby sleep on his stomach as this may prevent him from breathing easily. You may put baby on his stomach to burp him, but place him on his side soon after so any additional air can escape and your baby won’t choke on hi spit-up. Placing baby on his side is advisable during the first days to avoid putting pressure on his healing navel. Later on, your baby can choose whatever position is comfortable for him or her.

Two Types of Health Insurance Coverage

(source: The New Complete Medical and Health Encyclopedia vol. III)

In general, private health insurance coverage is one of two kinds: group and individual. Employers, unions, and other kinds of organization typically provide group insurance as an employee or membership benefit. An individual can buy individual insurance whether or not he or she is covered under a group policy. But a good group policy usually covers all the major health problems or contingencies that a person could face under normal circumstances.

Group insurance has a number of specific advantages over individual coverage, among them are the following:

• Because a number of people can be included under a single contract, with consequent savings to the insurer in sales, administrative, and claims costs, the insurer can charge less per individual covered.

• In most cases the company, union or organization holding the group contract pays part or all of the individual premiums.

• With group insurance the health of the individual insured person is usually not a major factor in determining eligibility. The insurance company is more interested in the average age and overall health status of the group. The health of individuals may become a selection factor, however, where small groups, 10 or fewer persons, are involved.

• Unless an individual leaves a job or gives up a membership, his or her group coverage cannot be canceled. Termination of the group plan itself would, of course, terminate coverage.

Despite such advantages, individual and family policies fulfill at least two fundamental needs. First, they provide coverage for persons who are not members of the insured group. Such policies may also cover those who cannot, for whatever reason, obtain group coverage. Second, the individual or family policy can provide supplementary coverage where a group plan does not meet all basic health insurance needs

Group and individual plans differ in basic ways. Where a group policy establishes the level of benefits for all group members, the individual policy can more easily be tailored to specific requirements. With the individual policy, too, each person or family is enrolled separately. The cost of individual insurance is usually substantially higher because the insurer considers the age, health status of the insured, and other factors when setting premium rates.

Initial and Later Stages of Cancer

Initial Stages

The cancer may start with just one or a few cells somewhere in the body that undergo a change and become malignant, or cancerous. The cells divide and reproduce themselves, and the cancer grows.

Most cancers arise on the surface of a tissue, such as the skin, the lining of the uterus, mouth, stomach, bowel, bladder, or bronchial tube in the lung, or inside a duct in the breast, prostate gland, or other site. Eventually, they grow from a microscopic clump to a visible mass, then begin to invade underlying tissues. As long as the cells remain in one mass, however, the cancer is localized.

Later Stages

At some later phase, in a process called metastasis, some of the cancer cells split off and are swept into the lymph channels or bloodstream to other parts of the body. They may be captured for a while in a nearby lymph node ( a stage called regional involvement), but unless the disease is arrested, it will rapidly invade the rest of the body, with death the almost certain result. Some cancers grow with a malevolent rapidity; some are dormant by comparison. Some respond to various therapies, such as radiation therapy; others do not.

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Healthy Lifestyle Tips

Person with healthy lifestyle is far from illnesses. Living a healthy lifestyle means enjoying life without worries, stress, depression, and less disease. Balance your life to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Some Tips to Healthy Lifestyle

- Good personal hygiene
- Quit smoking
- Balance your life
- Eating healthy breakfast
- Live simply
- Eat more fruits and vegetables
- Love yourself
- Laugh often


Now a day, it’s really hard to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle because of busy schedules and world is become complicated. But if we want to prolong our life we will be responsible for our health.

Tips to Parent to Prevent Drug Abuse

Any problem that confronts the member of the family specially if it is the problem of the children should be the concern of the adults or parents. Following are the suggestions to parents, to prevent drug abuse:

1. Create a warm and friendly atmosphere at home.
2. Develop more effective means of communication by being open, honest, frank about things that matter between them and their children.
3. Understand and accept their children for what they are and not for what the want them to be.
4. Develop and maintain mutual respect by showing faith and confidence in their children’s ability to think and reason clearly.
5. Always remember that they exert a profound influence in their children’s lives by service as models. Their children can see how they meet the stresses of everyday life which will be their basis in meeting future problems.
   

Psychologists and Psychiatrists agree that a happy family is the only solution to drug addiction.

Warning Signs for Mentally Ill Person

Just how can a determination be made as to who is mentally ill? No temperature reading, no acute pain, no abnormal growth can be looked for as evidence of a serious problem. Yet there are warning signs, and among the common ones are the following:

• Anxiety that is severe, prolonged, and unrelated to any identifiable reason or cause.
• Depression, especially when it is followed by withdrawal from loved ones, from friends, or from the usual occupations or hobbies that ordinarily afford one pleasure.
• Loss of confidence in oneself.
• Undue pessimism.
• A feeling of constant helplessness.
• Uncalled for or unexplainable mood changes – for example, an abrupt switch from happiness to unhappiness when nothing has happened to warrant it.
• Rudeness or aggression that is without apparent cause or which is occasioned by some trivial incident.
• An unreasonable demand for perfectionism, not only in oneself but in one’s loved ones, friends, business associates, and even from things or situations.
• Habitual underachievement, especially if one is adequately equipped to do the work one is called upon to perform.
• The inability to accept responsibility, often manifested by a recurrent loss of employment.
• Phobias.
• Unreasonable feelings of persecution.
• Self-destructive acts.
• Sexual deviation.
• A sudden and dramatic change in sleeping habits.
• Physical ailments and complaints for which there are no organic causes.
  

If one or more of these warning signs occur frequently or in severe form, a mental illness may be present, and professional help should be sought to evaluate the underlying problem.

Some Tips to Help Avoid Backache / Back Pain

As we grow older, the back muscle – weakened by inactivity, poor posture, and almost unavoidable wear and tear – start to complain.

Other causes of back problem are muscle and joint strain, changes in the spine, psychological tension, and internal diseases.

Here are some tips to help avoid backache:

• Learn to lift correctly. Use your legs muscles, which are stronger than back muscles, by placing your feet closer to the base of the object, bending your knees outward, and pushing up with your legs.

• Avoid subjecting your back to any sudden, erratic motion.

• Try to improve your posture when sitting and walking.

• Sleep on a firm bed; a bed board may be helpful.

• Get regular exercise of a type that stimulates all your muscles rather than just a few.

• If you sit for a long period, get up and stretch occasionally.

• Beware of excess weight. Extra weight on the abdomen pulls on the vertebrae at the small of the back, increasing the spine’s normal curve and causing pain.

• Try never to become over fatigued or exhausted, either physically or mentally. Emotional pressure from work or personal problems causes muscle tension.

Reference: The New Complete Medical and Health Encyclopedia

Vitamins and Its Function

Vitamin A
Maintain normal vision, skin health, bone and tooth growth reproduction and immune function.

Thiamine
Help release energy from nutrients; support normal appetite and nerve function.

Riboflavin
Helps releases energy from nutrients, support skin health, prevent deficiency manifested by cracks and redness at corners of mouth; inflammation of the tongue and dermatitis.

Niacin
Help release energy from nutrients; support skin, nervous and digestive system, prevents pellagra.

Biotin
Help in energy and amino acid metabolism; help in the synthesis of fat glycogen

Pantothenic
Help in energy metabolism

Folic Acid
Help in the formation of DNA and new blood cells including red blood cells

Vitamin B 12
Help in the formation of the new cells; maintain nerve cells, assist in the metabolism of fatty acids and amino acids.

Vitamin C
Help in the formation of protein, collagen, bone teeth cartilage, skin and scar tissue; facilitate in the absorption of iron from the gastrointestinal tract; involve in amino acid metabolism; increase resistance to infection, prevent scurvy

Vitamin D
Help in the mineralization of bones by enhancing absorption of calcium.

Vitamin E
Strong anti-oxidant; help prevent arteriosclerosis; protect neuron-muscular system; important for normal immune function.

Vitamin K
Involve in the synthesis of blood clotting proteins and a bone protein that regulates blood calcium level.

What is Hives?

Hives are indications of allergic sensitivity to various foods, drugs, furs, fabrics, cosmetics, or a reaction to emotional stress. It is not solely blamed to sting bites of insects.

Hives appears as red or white welts on the skin which may disappear a suddenly as they come, or may last for several days.

The development of hives (urticaria) occurs when the body releases histamine, an organic compound of the human tissues that is produced during allergic reactions. The process would cause a widening of the blood capillaries, then the plasma escapes, producing swelling on the skin surface.

The food causing allergies are strawberries, peaches, nuts, shellfish, pork and some wheat products. Feathers, woolen fabrics, and animal furs could cause surface irritants. Cosmetics containing chemical dyes, serums in the form of vaccines for immunization, and various drugs, chiefly penicillin and some medicine for hypertension, could cause hives to appear.

Brain Capacity

Fallacy:

The brain can get tired by reading to much information.

Fact:
The statement seems to assume that the brain is the same as the mind. The brain has many parts, made up of tissues just as the rest of the body is. It controls bodily movements and is also concerned with the different senses. All the knowledge that we have, first comes to us through the sense organs. The mind, however, is not a physical thing; it cannot be seen or weighed. It is the part of our being with which we learn, remember, think, and feel. Nevertheless, it is through the brain that the mind works. The mind cannot function without a brain to gather all the impressions relayed by the senses.

These sense impressions automatically go to specific areas in the brain. Everytime we absorb or recall them, a deeper track of impression occurs in the brain nerves that is made by the incoming impression. The brain by nature will continually allow us to remember sets of impressions that we had in the past. Unless the brain becomes diseased or injured, it can go on receiving impressions and connecting new ones. Usually, the more connections or experiences we have, the easier it will be to recall these impressions.

What is true: the brain does not get tired. It is the muscles of the sense organs, such as the eye, that tire and need rest.

Milk Stops Bone Loss

A study done to women who passed the menopausal stage showed that drinking milk fights bone loss. According to this study, women should drink milk during their adult’s lives. This will help fight the bone-thinning effects of a lifetime of coffee drinking

Women who do not drink milk but drink coffee containing caffeine can suffer bone weakening as they get older. This is according to a study conducted by Elizabeth Barret-Cannor and colleagues at the University of California at San Diego. This can place them at risk of suffering weakening and life threatening fractures. Previous studies have linked coffee drinking to an increased rate of hip fracture.

An intake of calcium or vitamin, later in life, is not enough to fight the bone loss caused by a lifetime of coffee drinking. Rather, it must be countered by enough calcium intake throughout one’s life.

Benefits of B- Carotene and Vegetables in our Body

Experts from the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI), Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said that if you want to be healthy, you must eat a lot of vegetables. Good Advice.

Good eyesight, glowing skin, and glossy hair come from eating green and leafy and yellow vegetables. These vegetables contain B-carotene. This is converted to vitamin A in the body. Vitamin A is important for growth and for healthy eyes, skin and hair. These vegetables also contain minerals, like iron and calcium. Iron and calcium are very important to the body. They help in the bone formation and the functioning of the circulatory and digestive systems. They are also rich in dietary fiber This helps in the removal of wastes from the body. It also reduces the risk of having common diseases, like heart diseases, cancer and diabetes.

B- carotene can be found in the leaves of camote, cassava, pepper, saluyot, malunggay, kangkong, mustard, and squash. Carrots, yellow camote, squash fruit, and tiesa are also high in B-carotene. These vegetables also contain vitamin C when eaten raw or slightly cooked. An adult needs ¾ cup of green leafy and yellow vegetables everyday.

(S & T Media Service)

Baby’s Hair and Hair Cut

Some believes that it is not good to have a child’s hair cut before the age of one year but nowhere in the scientific literature can one find a medical basis for this belief. Cutting the hair of a child who is below one year old has no effect whatsoever to his physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

The growth of hair is normal in all individuals. It begins as early as the third month of fetal life. Each hair grows in a follicle which is composed of epidermal cells.

Hair follicles are distributed throughout the skin, except in the palms, soles, lips and glans penis. The hair on the head has an almost continuous rate of follicle activity; each hair being replaced almost as soon as it reaches its full length. Scalp hair usually grows on the average of .35 mm a day. It takes about four years for a hair to reach its average length about 28 centimeters.

For babies, it is a must that the hair be kept short and clean always. Otherwise, it will cause so much irritation to them, especially to their eyes. Mothers may certainly not entertain second thought on whether or not to have their babies hair cut.

(Source: Bato Balani , For Science and Technology)

Fact and Fallacy : Food Allergy

Fallacy:
Everybody has an allergy to certain foods.

Fact:
Most of us believe that we have some kind of allergy to certain foods. But real foods allergies are rare. Most of what we think as allergies are really food intolerances that have little or nothing to do with the immune system. People sometimes mistake food intolerances for allergy, because both have the same symptoms.

A food allergy is defined as an overreaction of the body’s immune system, which includes the white blood cells, lymph tissues, thymus gland, and bone marrow. Substances, usually proteins, trigger the immune system of someone with allergy to release antibodies. These antibodies fight the unwanted proteins. Their immune systems release chemicals such as histamine that irritate body tissue. The most commonly affected tissues are the gastrointestinal tract, skin and respiratory system.

Otherwise, food intolerances are reactions to food that are not related to the immune system. It is difficult to know when a physical problem is a result of food allergy or simply intolerance. Consult a physician if you have any of the aforementioned symptoms.

(Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer, August. 1991)

Additional Tips from Nutritionists to Lose Weight

Is there any magic way to reduce? The only sure way is to eat less, and to continue this practice all the time. It will not help if you go on a crash diet and then resume your normal eating habits. And while exercise will help control weight and burp up excess calories, probably the best exercise is to push yourself away from the table before you’ve overeaten.

Here are some additional tips from nutritionists to help you lose weight:

• Cut down on quantity. Eat just enough to satisfy your appetite – not as much as you can. Even low calorie foods will add weight if you eat enough of them.

• Eat less more often. Spread your food intake over several meals or snacks. Some hospitals have been experimenting with five meals a day, spreading the recommended total food intake over two full meals a day (brunch and dinner) and three snacks (continental breakfast, afternoon snacks, and before – bedtime). They find that the stomach handles small amounts of food better, that metabolism keeps working at a good pace all day, and that blood sugar levels (your energy reserve) do not drop between meals. Also, the process of digestion burns up calories.

• Avoid high-calorie foods. Cut out breads, rolls, jellies, jams, sauces, gravies, dressings, creams, and rich desserts. These are the villains that add calories and are not as rich in nutrients.

• Look for natural flavors. Cultivate an interest in the natural flavor of what you eat. Try vegetables without butter, coffee and tea without cream and sugar. You might want to substitute a pinch of salt or a squeeze of lemon on your vegetables or noncaloric sweeteners in your beverages, but chances are you will find the natural flavors new and interesting.

• Serve only just enough. Keep portions small and put serving dishes with leftovers out of sight. Taking seconds is often just a habit. Cultivate the idea of just one serving, and you will find it satisfies the appetite. Another idea: serve meals on smaller plates, the portion will look big if only in relationship to the size of the plate.
  

In order to maintain a healthy body and a youthful appearance while dieting, you must make sure you eat the necessary proteins and nutrients. This can be done by selecting foods from the basic food groups.

(Source: The New Complete MEDICAL and HEALTH Encyclopedia edited by Richard J. Wagman, M.D.)

Some Money Saving Tips

It is the money you save but not the money you earned. As far it is concerned one must know how to budget money. If someone is earning a big amount of money, but he spends it too much on something that it is not needed. Like for example, after payday, he plan to go to department store to buy the latest watch, phones, or high tech gadget instead of going to bank. Be sure to have deposit slip all the time and as much as possible and deposit your salary just left allowance for the month so that you are not tempted to buy something.

• Live a simple life. Some people think that living simply means living in misery. Living simply doesn’t mean living in deprivation. It doesn’t mean eating only two meals a day, cutting off electricity bill at home or making do with candles and charcoal. It is just cutting back on the other items that don’t appear in our top values such as clothes, accessories, appliances and gadget.

• Budget your money. Track your all spending. Before you’re leaving in work, you can keep a small notebook where you can jot down expenses every time you purchase something. Each new day should have own page. This notebook will serve as diagnosis of all your expenses and use as your analysis because you can trace where your money goes. At the end of each month, check your notebook and make a spreadsheet. Create categories: Foods, House Maintenance, Medical, Clothing, Tuition, Etc. After 2 to 3 months, you can now create a “spending plan” based on your diagnosis. One guy realized that he can save up to $1,500 each month if he gave up his after office snack before returning home and went straight home and feed himself in their kitchen.
  

• Make Irregular Expenses Account. There are expenses that don’t come each month such as tuition fees, maintenance expenses (appliances repair), insurance, etc. Part of your budgeting knows out what these irregular expenses in your life and how much they cost in total each year. Divide this figure by twelve, and that’s why what you should set aside in another account called “Irregular Expense”. This is not your saving account.

• Pay all your debts first. Before starting a saving account, pay off all your debts because you are paying more interest on your loans than earning interest from your savings. Savings account can give you an average 3% monthly interest and time deposit can give up to 8% while credit card loans can go up to 24% a year so it is better to put your savings into paying your debts. You can list down all your debts from those with the highest interests down to the lowest ones. If you are paying off credit card loans, shop for credit cards that charge lower interests and transfer loans there. Make a payment scheme plan and calculate when you will reach zero debt and have stick to your plan.

• Never buy things on credit. Do you have something you want to buy right now and are tempted to buy on credit? Don’t and save up for it every month. If you something you want, save for it and buy it later. We should always live below our earning capacity.
  

• Stop impressing others. When you are too busy impressing others, paying your bills or debts, or protecting your properties, it makes your life complicated. Are you comparing yourself with your richer neighbors and friends? Don’t try to appear wealthy.

• Invest wisely. Never get into something you don’t understand. Some people lost their whole life savings and retirement money fund because they got into things they didn’t understand. Also, never put your life savings into high-risk investments. If the firm crashes, you were ready for it and thankful it wasn’t life savings you put into it.

• Eat more vegetables. Decrease intake of junk food like candy, potato chips, sodas, soft drinks, fatty foods, etc. By simplifying your eating habits, you could save up to $25 a week, $100 a month.

• Give up expensive habits. Imagine what you will save if you give up your smoking habits, buying lotto tickets, eating extra sweet snack and junk foods.
  

• Sell unused assets. You can sell all the clutter in your home – stuff that you no longer use. These stuffs can be converted into cash.

• Hold on to unexpected cash. Example of this unexpected cash is your yearly bonus or reimbursement from your office. You could keep this unexpected cash to your savings account not in your wallet because all your wallets have invisible holes.
  

Due to economic crisis today, I decided to post here a money saving tips. I hope that these tips will help you. If you have suggestions, don’t hesitate to share. Thanks!

How to Have a Happy Family

A happy family life emerges through the cooperation of the members of the home. Each member loves the other members of his family, appreciates what the other family members do for him, and accepts responsibilities cheerfully. Good family membership results in successful home life.

In every family, however, there are problems that arise from time to time. Problems are part of the process of living together. Some families are able to find ways to solve their problems, so they stay happy. This is a sign of maturity on the part of the individuals concerned. Other families fail the task of trying to have a happy family because of several reasons. Conflicts and misunderstanding arise in some families when the children are maturing. Some parents find it hard to realize that their children are growing up. At this stage of life it is necessary that a son or daughter feel that he is included in the decision-making of the family; that his/her ideas and suggestions are respected and considered. There is a need for young people and parents to try to understand each other. The families who can talk together over their problems and differences of viewpoint will find that they can avoid misunderstanding.

Some Basic Principles which are the backbone of a stable and happy family.

1. Give Yourself to Your Family. Most parents never have time for their children. They are always too busy doing the things they want to do. They simply don’t take time for their children.
2. Private Family Activities: a Must. Spend more time with your family. There are many activities in which the whole family can participate. Group activities such as picnics, swimming, hiking and fishing can be great fun. Take your children with you.
3. Communicate with your Family. In too many homes there is simply no communication. So many parents seem have no time to communicate with their children.
   

In this generation, especially our children exposed to immoral influences. Many of their friends will look on anyone who doesn’t succumb to those influences as a square. They desperately need all the help parents can give them. The only way to give them this help is by communicating with them.

(sources: Population Education by Custodiosa Sanchez)

Obesity and Overweight among Children: Causes, Prevention and Effects

I decided to post obesity among children because I noticed that one of the common problems of children today is becoming overweight. Maybe because of today’s generation, modern technology including internet gaming can be one factor that cause obesity. I observed that children are lack of physical activities such as exercise, running, jogging, playing outside, and involve in sports, they become addicted in internet gaming.

Some Causes of Overweight

- Unhealthy eating habit

In today’s generation, time is so fast that everyone is on the hurry. Some parents usually prepare prepackaged meal or foods from fast food. These foods are far higher in calories, fats, sugars, and salt that cause weight gain

- Lack of Physical Activity

Due to increasing popularity of television, computers and video games, children are tending to spend time in front of tube instead of doing some sport or other physical activity. Children who watch more than 4 hours a day are more likely to be overweight compared with kids who watch 2 hours or less. There’s also a scenario that a child may eat a junk food while watching their favorite show.

- Genetic Factors

Genes help determine body type and how your body stores and burns fat just like they help determine other traits. But we cannot blame genes alone as contributing factor to obesity, family habits such as eating and activity habits are also to be considered.

Some Prevention of Obesity and Overweight

• Get your child involved more on physical activity

• Be a model to your family. If your child sees that you are physically active and fun, they are likely to be active. Remember that your child is a great imitator.
• Provide a family activities which involves exercise and enjoyment such as swimming, biking, walking, running and dancing.

• Encourage your children to eat proper foods by offering a variety of healthy foods from Food Guide Pyramid. Teach your kids to eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, limit sugar-sweetened beverages, and eat breakfast every day.

• Reduce the amount of viewing time in television and gaming time with computer games and video games.

• Don’t maintain clean plate policy. Don’t force your child to continue eating even if they are already satisfied. Tell them that they should only eat when they’re hungry.

• Don’t reward with sweet for good behavior and try to eliminate sweets from kid’s diet.

• Discourage eating meals or snack while watching television.
  

Some Effects of Obesity

• Obesity is often link to several diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, high cholesterol and abnormal blood lipid

• Obese kids may also be prone to low self-esteem because they are being that being teased, bullied, or rejected by peers. They often feel isolated and lonely which could lead to depression

• Overweight girls may have irregular menstrual cycle and fertility problem in adulthood

• Liver and gall bladder disease

• Obese children are more likely to be adult obese.
  

All family members must participate in the increased activity. Parents should be a good model to their children and accompany for bike rides, walks or swim and it should be fun and feel good for their children. Parents should promote healthy eating among their children. If parents eat healthy foods, they are modeling a healthy lifestyle habits to their children that will last.

Always remember that the most important is to let your children know that they love them no matter what.

Is your Child is Overweight

If you think that your child is overweight, contact your pediatrician. Your doctor will measure your child’s weight and height if your child is within the healthy range. He can also assess your child’s eating and activity habits and make suggestion on how to make positive changes.