Obesity and Genetics
Is Body Type a Factor in Excess Weight?
Genetics do indeed play a role in childhood obesity. Understand your child’s body type and links between obesity and genetics, and a healthy weight is possible!
Like all of us, your child is a unique individual with his own
collection of DNA. That DNA expresses itself in a wide range of
physical, emotional and mental characteristics. While there is
definitely a link between genetics and obesity, the reality is that once
you understand your child's body type and metabolism, you can work with
his body to provide the fuel mix of food on which he is best designed to function. That correct fuel mix makes it much easier for your child to reach and maintain a healthy weight.
Does you child:
when he eats meals and snacks that include a higher percentage of protein or does he do better with higher amounts of whole grains and starchy vegetables? Is he someone who enjoys physical activity on his own, or does he prefer a more sedentary lifestyle or activity that is a team or family effort? Is he often hungry between meals or can he go long stretches on a small snack?
All of these characteristics give clues as to whether there is a link
between genetics and your child's obesity. Begin to pay attention to how
your child feels after eating certain types of food and adjust
accordingly to give him the food types that cause him to be satisfied
longer, produce increased mental clarity and that have him feeling more
easily willing to be physical active. Those are clues that you are working at unraveling the obesity and genetics connection and are setting your child on a pathway towards increased health.
Genetics, or in Kids in Balance language, Body Type, is one of the 7 factors I've determined as most likely to contribute to childhood obesity.
Feeding your child in a way that supports his body type and encouraging
activity he is more easily suited to, goes a long way to working with
the genetics and obesity connection in a positive, life-changing way.
If you'd like more information on the link between obesity and genetics
and would like KIB support in how to work with your child's body type,
feel free to order Overweight Kids in a Toothpick World. My book fully details the Kids in Balance program and allows you to easily and quickly work at home with your child to reach a healthy, balanced weight.
Looking for additional support to go along with Overweight Kids in a Toothpick World? Purchase Coach, ten weeks of helpful newsletters designed to provide further insight and encouragement for you and your child during each stage of the KIB journey.
You are also welcome to download the free handout, 10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Get Your Kids in Balance or sign up for KIB's free Connect newsletter.
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