How education plays a key role in overweight
A recent American scientific study notes that depending on the poverty, social and cultural level of families, children are likely to suffer from overweight. A more recent study supports this state of affairs and notes the importance of the education given to children by their parents.
We come from the models of our family
In education, the parental model is worth more than many words! What parents “do and are” will be better considered than what they “moralize and say” to their children. Indeed, the father and mother represent the “referent type pattern” in the psycho-affective and emotional construction of their children.
It is on this basis that Dr.Lisa Kakinami, an epidemiologist at McGill University in Montreal, states that a child treated with the affection and limits required for an ideal education, will have a better chance of evolving in balance(1). In full possession of his means, he will know how to separate things, eat properly throughout his life and obesity will not be part of his landmarks.
A serious study
On the profile page of Lisa Kakinami, author of the study(2), the scientist offers a comparison of the life course of poverty according to three models based on the prediction of the risk of cardiovascular disease in young people. It appears from this study that depending on the education given to children, they may suffer from obesity or, conversely, have a low and correct BMI that respects their state of health. According to this study, the more parents educate their children, the lower their children have a BMI throughout their childhood.
The three scenarios to distinguish
Depending on the parental model, children will, in every way, be balanced, healthy and psychologically stable.
A too lax education leads to a general “letting go” as well as an unbalanced diet made of pizza, industrial food and “ready-made” dishes. Left to their own devices, the youngest do not make the right choices and rush to salty, sweet or fattier products.
Conversely, a very severe education that takes place in non-understanding, based on excessive authoritarianism marked by punishments, makes children insecure or even fearful. They develop instability that disrupts their basal metabolism as well as their relationship to food(3).
And, as everything is a matter of common sense, a strict but tolerant education, with listening and availability of parents to their children, will allow them to acquire healthy and solid foundations. The body mass index level will be normative in the long term and the relationship to food excellent.
Stephen Paul is the lead author and founder of My Health Sponsor. Holder of a diploma in health and well-being coaching with more than 200 articles in the field of health, he makes it a point of honor to offer advice based on reliable information, based on scientific research, and verified by health professionals.