Obesity in children usually occurs due to several factors such as genetic factors are descended from families who have the seeds of obesity, environmental factors, nutritional, and activities.

Eight factors have been identified experts as factors that cause obesity are:

• Obesity in the elderly
• Birth weight
• At the age of 3 years, spent 8 hours a week to watch TV
• Weight gain quick to children aged 2 years
• Weight gain is rapid in the first year of age at the age of 3 years,
• Sleep less than 10.5 hours per night
• Body size at age of 8 months and 18 months
• The early development of body fat in pre-school age, the age in which body fat should not increase

Parents are generally happy if you have a child with a fertile body weight, compared with lean children, but healthy.

Research conducted in the UK on 9000 children revealed that television is one of the eight risk factors that cause obesity have been identified.

This is caused by an imbalance between energy intake with energy output. This excess energy is finally stored in fatty tissue. Activities factors that ultimately influence.

A study shows children activity tends to decrease when the child prefer to do activities within the home rather than outside the home such as swimming, exercising, roads, etc.. Watching television is also shown to decrease the activity and energy output for the children to less walking, cycling or up and down the stairs.

For that, a change of lifestyle is very important. Lifestyle modifications that began early pregnancy since the mother, baby, until the time the children will reduce the risk of obesity later in life.