Influence Of Parental Feeding Pattern On Childhood Obesity

 

Influence Of Parental Feeding Pattern On Childhood Obesity 

 

ABSTRACT

 

The study delved the influence of maternal feeding pattern on nonage rotundity in Ikemme Local Government Area, Ogun. 50 children between the periods of 3 to 5 times were aimlessly chosen out of the entire population. Questionnaire was used to gain information from one replier. The disquisition revealed that maternal feeding pattern has a significant positive effect on nonage rotundity. Grounded on the findings from the study, it was thus recommended that parents should watch the feeding pattern in other to reduce the chances of nonage rotundity in their children.

 

Chapter One

 

Preface

 

Background of the Study

 

rotundity which was majorly associated with grown-ups in the once unfortunately becomes one of the major health challenges now faced by children. Hence it’s now appertained to as child rotundity. Child rotundity can simply be defined as ’ a state of being exorbitantly fat or over weight. A lot of reasons have been given by several experimenters like center for complaint control and forestallment in( 2012) as to why rotundity has patient in the world and especially in West African sub region. The Chief among these reasons are the influence of the feeding gospel or pattern of parents. For the purpose of this study, the experimenter intends to estimate the perceived effect of maternal feeding pattern on nonage rotundity. thus this study is guided by the following objects

 

rotundity is now a major health challenge among children. issues associated with rotundity in grown-ups are now affecting children. The frequence of fat status has tripled worldwide in the last 2 to 3 decades, including in developing countries like Nigeria and regions that are decreasingly citified( Lobstein, Baur, and Uauy. 2004). An transnational rotundity task force( IOTF) analysis has shown that fat and rotundity affects one in 10 children in the world moment, but the rate is nearly double in Europe and three times as great across the entire American mainland( IOTF, 2003). Over nutrition is a growing problem in parts ofsub-Saharan African society, particularly where cultures come citified and westernized and data have accumulated on the adverse health goods of rotundity in advanced and developing countries.( WHO, 2004). Increased threat for diabetes, dyslipidemia, coronary heart complaint, atherosclerosis, and hypertension, high blood cholesterol attention, stroke, certain cancers and arthritis have been reported to be associated with nonage rotundity( Vander, Ceesay, Milligan, Banya, and Walraven 2006). rotundity in children and nonage has adverse effect on unseasonable mortality and physical morbidity in majority( Reilly & Kelly, 2011) and is associated with disabled health during nonage itself. Once rotundity is established in children( as in grown-ups) it’s hard to reverse( De Onis and Lobstein, 2010).

 

In 2010, 43 million children( 35 million in developing nations) were estimated to be fat and fat; 92 million were at threat of being fat. The worldwide frequence of nonage fat and rotundity increased from4.2 in 1990 to6.7 in 2010. This trend is anticipated to reach9.1, or ’60 million, in 2020. The estimated frequence of nonage fat and rotundity in Africa in 2010 was8.5 and is anticipated to reach12.7 in 2020. The frequence is lower in Asia than in Africa(4.9 in 2010), but the number of affected children( 18 million) is advanced in Asia declared De Onis and Lobstein( 2010). ultramodern salutary patterns and physical exertion patterns are threat actions that travel across countries and are transmittable from one population to another like an contagious complaint, affecting complaint patterns encyclopedically. While age, coitus and inheritable vulnerability arenon-modifiable, numerous of the pitfalls associated with age and coitus are adjustable. similar pitfalls include behavioral factors(e.g. diet, physical inactivity); natural factors(e.g. dyslipidemia, hypertension, fat) and eventually societal factors which include a complex admixture of interacting socioeconomic, artistic and other environmental parameters( WHO, 2003). likewise, rapid-fire changes in diets and cultures that have passed with industrialization, urbanization, profitable development and request globalization have accelerated over the once decade. This is having a significant impact on the health and nutritive status of populations, particularly in developing or third world nations. While norms of living have bettered, food vacuity has expanded and come more diversified, and access to services has inversely increased, there have also been significant negative goods in terms of unhappy salutary patterns, dropped physical conditioning and a corresponding increase in diet- related habitual conditions, especially among poor people( WHO, 2003).

 

Overtime, rotundity has been associated with inordinate feeding and lack of acceptable digestion which ultimately leads to inordinate fat being stored up in the belly and other fat storehouse areas of the mortal body.

 

Since the pattern of feeding can be said to influence rotundity in both grown-ups and children, parents do have leading places to play in either encouraging or reducing the frequence of nonage rotundity, really most children who are fat are under the maternal companion age, hence it can be said that the recent cases of rotundity may not be unconnected to the feeding habit of their parents or guardians. The feeding pattern of parents may actually have a ruinous effect on their children as children are generally known to be dependent on their parents for food sanctum and apparel, this view hence propel the experimenter’s study of assessing the perceived effect of maternal feeding pattern on nonage rotundity.

 

. Statement of Problem

 

The imminence of child mortality in the sub Saharan African and Nigeria especially has been a cause for serious concern. Child hood rotundity has over the times been a parentage ground for other conditions and health challenges like cardiovascular or heart related health challenges in children which has led to the increase of child or adolescent mortality and therefore led to the reduction of the unborn generation which could in the unborn affect the productive capacity of the country.

 

In Nigeria moment, numerous children who are fat are at threat of being insulated in the society, making them unhappy and withdrawn. This has utmost times contributed to the poor academic performance of similar children. It has also affected their social relationship as they find it delicate to freely associate or relate with their coevals.

 

. Objects Of The Study

 

The experimenter intends to estimate maternal feeding pattern as a determinant for child rotundity. thus this study is guided by the following objects

 

To determine the maternal feeding pattern of the children with rotundity.

Identify the perceived effect of the maternal feeding.

To assess the relationship between nonage rotundity and academic performance.

. Exploration Questions

 

The following exploration questions would guide us in bearing this study.

 

What’s the relationship between maternal feeding pattern and nonage rotundity?

Is there a relationship between nonage rotundity and academic performance

What’s the factual feeding pattern of parents who have fat children?

. Research suppositions

 

thesis 1

 

H0 There’s no significant relationship between maternal feeding pattern and nonage rotundity.

 

thesis 2

 

H0 There’s no significant relationship between nonage rotundity and academic performance.

 

. Significance of the Study

 

This study seeks to examine maternal feeding pattern as a determinant of child rotundity. Another significance of this study is to educate parents and guardians on the negative consequences of rotundity in children and at the same time recommend ways of precluding rotundity in children. This study would be immense benefit to the health sector and experimenters who are interested in nonage rotundity in Nigeria.

 

. Compass of the Study

 

This study is the perceived effect of maternal feeding pattern on nonage rotundity in ikenne original government. Due to the time factors that may be demanded in this study the experimenter is impelled to limit its focus to just two municipalities in ikenne original government that’s Ilishan Remo and Irolu Remo. This study will borrow a descriptive check exploration design, and also using questionnaires in addition to library exploration would be used in collecting being data. Hence the collected data would be anatomized using the correlation statistical system. The sample size of this study would be 50 parents abiding within Ilishan Remo and Ikenne Remo that there child attended private primary academy. This study is confined to the perceived effect of maternal feeding pattern on nonage rotundity in ikenne original government.

 

. Functional Description Of Terms

 

rotundity rotundity is a condition that’s associated with having an excess of body fat, defined by inheritable and environmental factors that are delicate to control when overeating. rotundity is classified as having a Body Mass Index( BMI) of 30 or lesser.

 

Maternal feeding pattern this is a particular way a parent feed or gives food to his or her child. It can also be said that it’s the illustration the parent give to the child. Like if the mama eat chuck every morning the child will grow into eating chuck in the morning that the illustration the parent gave that child.

 

Childhood the state of being a child. The time of a child life that’s between immaturity and puberty