Physical And Fitness: The Importance Of Physical Fitness

When an individual engages in physical activity, it decreases the sedentary life, promotes healthy emotional well being while maintaining a healthy body weight. Physical fitness is very important in order to be fit an individual must us proper nutrition. The effect various based on the nutrients that affect the body. When the body needs to repair and grow it uses protein. The body uses carbohydrates during physical activity as an energy source. When an individual is fit the body uses its nutrition to help heal and main certain hydration when conducting physical activity. Healthy physical activity helps the individual sleepy at night, possible live longer, feel better, healthy weight.

UNICEF stated that, “India, almost half of children younger than five years are stunted, a manifestation of chronic undernutrition. Stunting and other forms of under-nutrition are thought to be responsible for nearly half of all child deaths globally.” Children who are stunting they are facing under developed brain with many long term damaging consequences, as well as mental abilities and learning skills and can cause many problems for their future (UNICEF). Even though the economy in India has developed, the number of the children under the age of five have still been being stunted. According to UNICEF, “48 per cent or 54 million children under-five years in India are stunted. Stunting (inadequate length/height for age) reflects cumulative

Nutrition is important to understand because it is a significant contributor to the health and wellness of a human being. Nutrition can determine the weight of a person, the performance of organs and the body’s ability to prevent or accelerate certain diseases. Health and nutrition can be influenced by several factors such as family, friends, peers as well as physical and mental stress. As a young child, the immediate family is the biggest influence on nutrition because they are the first role models and establish the initial habits that the individual will develop. Through daily meal plans given to children, they can develop a standard of care in regard to nutrition and then incorporate key food groups into their daily diet. A child’s

Physical activity has not only physical benefits. It also has a very big impact on social-emotional and cognitive aspects of child’s live. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “The development of a physically active lifestyle is a goal for all children. Traditional team and competitive sports may promote healthy activity for selected youth. Individual sports, noncompetitive sports, lifetime sports, and recreational activities expand the opportunity for activity to everyone. The opportunity to be active on a regular basis, as well as the enjoyment and competence gained from activity, may increase the chances that a physically active lifestyle will be adopted.”

The childhood development of the individual followed the normal development patterns that are expected. In the childhood stage the individual development changed rapidly and their ability to be active and learn new skills improves on a daily basis. During childhood a child will grow steadier compared to an infant. A child’s body and organs size grows at a steady pace. By the age of 6 a child’s head will be 90% of a full adult size even though the rest of a child’s body has a lot more to grow and to develop. Until a child reaches late childhood, and entering adolescence, an individual’s reproductive organs are still not fully developed. Infants and children can suffer from delayed development. This could cause potential effects

Children and young people’s health and development is closely linked to their dietary choice as they need the right amount of nutrients necessary to keep their energy and to maintain the body for growth, tissue repair, healthy skin, hair and teeth, red blood cells and strong immune system.

Exercise in general has been known to reep many benefits in health of the body, for example the seven components of fitness as mentioned in ‘ABC of sports and exercise medicine, third edition by Sir Roger Bannister’. (Edited by Gregory P Whyte)

This also presents the needs of the children. Lack of nutrition in early childhood places children at high risk of developing obesity when food and physical activity arrangements concur. Many countries now face the strain of hunger in all its categories, with rising rates of childhood obesity as well as high rates of child nutrition. Childhood obesity is often secluded as a public health issue in these ambient times, where culturally, an overweight child is considered to be healthy. In high-income countries, the risks of childhood obesity are considerable in low socioeconomic groups. Although presently the results show to be true in low and middle income countries, a changing pattern is emerging. In large scale countries, certain population subgroups, such as migrant and indigenous children, are at exceptionally high

Nutritional status of an adolescent plays a role in the development of anemia during pregnancy. A systematic review published by Bio-Med Central analyzes the nutritional status of adolescent pregnant women. The review stated several areas of concern in

De Leonibus, M. L. Marcovecchio, V. Chiavaroli, T. de Giorgis, F. Chiarelli, and A. Mohn, took a sample of 155 Caucasian children to see if puberty and physical growth vary in obese when compared to normal-weight children. At first, the children were assessed to make sure they were pre-pubertal and then followed thereafter during their pubertal years. This study was conducted over a 7 year period from January 2004 to September 2012. Out of the 155 children, 100 were obese pre-pubertal children (44boys and 56 girls). The Obesity Clinic of the Department of Pediatrics in Italy had referred these obese children for the study. Even though these children were obese, they were in good health and were not affected by any chronic diseases. However, physical disabilities, abnormalities of pubertal development or other endocrine disorders were excluded. It was also made sure the participants were not taking any medication known to affect the gonadal function and to make sure none had a family history of precocious or delayed pubertal development. It was also made sure the children had not participated in weight loss or dietary restrictions before beginning the study. The remanding 55 children, would be the control group. This group consisted of Caucasian normal weight children (27 boys and 28 girls) that would be compared to the obese group. These children were referred by the Paediatric outpatient clinics of the hospital for minor health

According to the article, considerable variation in the parameters used for the analysis of growth, making it difficult to compare results from different studies. The method used most consistently showed poor growth in height and height deficit was possible to compare between studies.

The Society for the Research on Adolescence, established in 1984, with a focus on providing a deeper understanding of adolescents and a means of sustaining their wellbeing. This journal article will be helpful in my research because it defines and describes adolescent obesity, links it to several genetic factors as well as socio-environmental influences, and details changes in human behavior that could aide in the prevention of adolescent

Ideally, research indicates that when young children have some form of nutrition deficiency, they may end up having some serious long-term complications. In the recent past, several researchers have realized that if the serious complications in the health of a child secondary to nutrition deficiency are to be prevented, parents need to intervene before the child is two years old. Normally, this age is considered an optimal window or threshold for growth, as well as prevention of many health complications in children (Jacobovits, 2011). Precisely, the potential complications linked with the stunted growth in height and in weight, secondary to nutritional deficiency include poor cognitive development, compromised bone,

The importance of establishing health promoting practices during childhood and adolescence has long been recognized by nutritionists and other health professionals. The purpose of this paper is to investigate further the issues relating to adolescents' diets and contributing factors. Contributing factors include the increase of fast food consumption, unconventional meal patterns and lack of exercise. During adolescence, the influences on eating habits are numerous. The growing independence of adolescents, increased participation in social life and a generally busy schedule of activities have a great impact on food intake.�In the September 2007 issue of 'Health Promotion

Many children are currently suffering from obesity all around the world (Zuraikat 2010). Often times if parents don’t have a good nutritional balance then their children will become obese as well. Adults might not care what others think of them, but most likely their children will be bullied in school. There is a lot of discrimination around the world till this day towards obese people (Zuraikat 2010). Believe it or not if two people go apply for the same job position often times the one that looks physically better will get the job. For this reason, it is significantly important to maintain a well-balanced nutritional diet starting at a young age. There are times when children are consuming high portions of fat