A recent case study at the Institute of Child Health, University college London reports, Teens are less healthier than parents. There has been a rise in obesity in last many years and a considerable decline in spending more time for outdoor games. Computer, video games are most in demand with unhealthy eating habits and risk of taking behavior patterns. Teenagers are prone to fall in for the vices and adopt the bad habit of smoking, drinking, etc.

Mental health of children need to be taken care at the adolescent age. It is believed, a child becomes obese sometimes due to stress too. Various factors like bully, family disturbance and the like, stress the child who is often misunderstood or who cannot speak his thoughts. Thus, he adopt the habit of eating and stuffing anything, anytime and too often with the stress signals means getting obese in time to come. A 15 minute daily exercise can beat obesity but it is better to guard before it's too late.

Here's a video on child obesity in Canada.

It is always thoughtful to care for children - whether younger ones or teenagers. Get them to do Sports, Yoga & Meditation from the start. The real need of the hour is to love, care and nurture a genius in your own child. Treat right, you are treated right - be it a kid or an adult.