Wednesday, April 8, 2009

How Teens Can Lose Weight

By Lucille Green

It is an unfortunate fact that overweight teenagers usually grow into overweight adults, parents know they need to resolve this weight issue before their child grows older and it affects their whole life. Most young people want to fit in with their friends but this just isn't going to happen they become the basis for all the weight jokes around. Increasingly young people with a problem are being enrolled into teen weight loss programs often referred to as 'boot camps'.

Unfortunately, many young people suffer with ill health, physical and emotional owing to their overweight condition. An overweight teen can almost be assured of future health problems including:

Heart disease Conditions associated with poor circulation - High/low blood sugar levels - Aching joints

Learning how a teen weight loss program will help avoid these conditions. Mentally, the repercussions are probably more obvious because who doesn't remember an overweight child at school that got saddled with some of those awful nicknames like fatty, piggy, porky and tubby plus many more that were even less courteous.

Although it might not help, rest assured you are not on your own as overweight teenagers and adults are a product of the times in which we live. Obesity has become a global concern and huge business for companies that claim to have 'wonder cures' to beat the problem but only relatively few actually work.

Often parents will react badly which doesn't help their teen lose weight because the problem is probably the result of over eating the wrong foods and little exercise for many years so it is not going to be cured in a matter of days. The first thing to do is speak to a professional who specializes in teen weight loss and carry out some research on your own, before spending large sums on diet plans that will not work and just disillusion your child.

One important point to bear in mind is that strict teen weight loss regimes can be dangerous. this can result in problems with muscles growth. The best way to proceed is by education, both for the parents and the teen so that losing fat is the prime concern as losing excess weight will follow.

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