What is the impact of child obesity on children's health?

Obese children and teens have been found to have risk factors for:

• Cardiovascular disease (CVD), including high cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, and abnormal glucose tolerance.
• Asthma
• Hepatic steatosis (fatty liver)
• Sleep apnea
• Type 2 diabetes.

Some consequences of childhood and adolescent obesity are psychosocial.

• Obese children and adolescents are targets of early and systematic social discrimination. The psychological stress of social stigmatization can cause low self-esteem which, in turn, can hinder academic and social functioning, and persist into adulthood.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "Consequences"