What are the major causes of obesity in children? What are the effects of obesity?

The root cause? Poor parenting skills. Letting kids choose to eat bad food, or even choosing it for them. Not instilling good eating habits and good food choices from day one into the child. This is aided by a plethora of advertising aimed at children (sugary, fried and fast food) with toy and movie tie-ins.
The results? A lifetime of being overweight, unhealthy and discriminated against. Source(s): Been there, done that, still fat:
http://itsafatlife.blogspot.com...

genes, over eating, not exercising enough.
Parents don't make them eat healthy and let them get fast food al the time. Effects... high cholesterol, emotional pain (get made fun of), high risk for other diseases, eventual death.
Parents over feeding them, letting them eat what they want, telling them that they need to eat everything on their plate because there are starving children in the world.
Effects: loneliness, being made fun of, serious health conditions, etc.
studies on this topic show that studies are inaccurate. lol. i dont knwo but in my opinion its time. we dont have enough to cook real food. so we throw in a pizza or pick up some burgers and get fat.
yep.. over eating, no excerise and being a parent who don't care about their child...