Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity among children

Childhood Obesity is considered as a major health problem in every country. The prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing nowadays with some health consequences that simultaneously affect the life of large proportion of Indian population both among children and adults. The purpose of the review was to identify the current literature pertaining to the childhood obesity with their possible causes; and to provide health care professionals, nurses, Physical education teachers with the fundamental knowledge that will help them to recognize the obesity problem who are at risk to find the possible interventions. The data was obtained by searching keywords including obesity, childhood, causes, health risks, overweight, interventions, policies, and statistics. The databases that were retrieved for the gathering current literature included PubMed, CINAHL,ProQuest, and Science Direct. The literature was confined to past 10 years with more emphasis laid down on last 5 years research work. In this article on the basis of the keywords 50 research papers were selected for review purpose. These papers reveled that most of the researchers nowadays use BMI as method to assess childhood obesity on large sample due to its time consuming factor. Obesity among children is related to various circumstances, universal themes, social, economical factors, physical activity, public policy, and so on. Every city or country that was suffering from increasing or high rate of childhood obesity problem must acknowledge the core factors that directly or indirectly contribute to this serious health problem in modern scenario. Furthermore, health policies should focus more on this emerging health problem. The policies can be implemented throughout the country through the medium of education, research, and encouragement from the part of physical education teachers, nurses, and doctors by association with the child and his family.