Dietary factors and obesity

The duration of breastfeeding and introduction of solids at a given age, protects against excessive adiposity in childhood. ". We have found that eating styles as suction stronger, longer duration and frequency of meals, are directly related to increased adiposity at 6 years of age.

Artificial feeding is associated with a greater development of childhood obesity compared with breastfeeding, it has been suggested that the first would play an important role the lack of variation of the physicochemical characteristics of the milk in the bottle, the addition of sucrose encourages increased intake and the early introduction of semi-solid foods. It is also a quick power, mechanical and no affective component. Moreover, recent studies in obese children 11 years of age, show that they have a different behavioral pattern of normal weight to their own age, highlighting that obese children eat more fast and show no slowdown in supply to the end of it, which might indicate lack in controlling satiety.

The abnormal behavior of the power used by parents or people close to the child, condition their future behavior. This situation, in some cases, is presented from infancy, when the mother is unable to properly interpret the different needs of the child, and responds with food to all expressions of it. Later in the infant stage is often associated with food rewards or penalties or forced to overeat by misconceptions or beliefs such as the relationship between fat and healthy.

The children and adolescents is increasingly opportunity to choose and buy your meals and snacks with no family control, but with great influence of his parents and the food industry, through television advertising of foods, in most cases very appetizing, but with low nutritional value, high in energy and fat, and the stimulation of eating in front of the screen.Some epidemiological studies relate obesity with calories from fat and carbohydrates. A metabolic study tests the weight loss in obese patients by decreasing the amount of dietary fat caloric intake while maintaining constant