A recent article concerning childhood obesity says, in part:
Americans are beginning to realise that childhood obesity is a real problem [gee, ya think?] and are even starting to do something about it, but there is no way to tell what actually works, a panel of experts said on Wednesday.
Statements like this — and the attitude behind them — piss me off no end. Don’t know what works? Please. How about not eating a bunch of junky crap and getting out from in front of the TV once in while? That seemed to work for pretty much every generation of Americans up to now, and it’s a good bet that it’ll work for this one as well. Energy in versus energy out. It’s really not that complicated.
Then there was this part:
The need for better programmes is clear. The obesity rate for US children and youth rose from 16 percent in 2002 to 17.1 percent in 2004. It is projected to hit 20 percent by 2010.
Sorry, but the need is not for “better programmes”. The need is for parents to start taking a little responsibility onto themselves by not giving in to demands for candy, sweets and trips to McDonald’s instead of expecting the schools and programs to do their job for them. They need to set and enforce limits as to how much TV their kids watch and how much time per day they sit twiddling their Playstations. Don’t want to deal with it? Then don’t have kids.
It makes me ill to think of all the children who — largely through no fault of their own — are going to be saddled with an adolescence filled with unnecessary anxiety and a lifetime of health problems because their mothers and fathers are too lazy and preoccupied to parent effectively.
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I couldn’t agree more. I try to provide a very healthy lifestyle for my daughter and have come across criticism from her doctors (ped, and family) that it’s too healthy and she’s underweight as a result. She’s not underweight most of the kids she’s being compared to are too big. I do allow her to watch entirely too much tv. I will be addressing that next. Thanks for your thoughts.
How can this be a problem??? What the heck is “TOO HEALTHY”?
I guess they won’t be happy until your kid gets diabetes from gorging on simple sugar. That would fix the “too healthy” problem.
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It really is sad. Now the medical community is in the process of “recalibrating” what is and isn’t overweight/obese in order to reflect “the new reality”. What this really means is that they’d rather mollycoddle the kids instead of telling them that they’re fat. That, and probably someone in the government is going to try to take credit for “improving” the results on fat tests, when in reality the only reason that the results will be better is that the test has been recalibrated to a more lax standard.
I was enfuriated when I told them I would not up her junk but I was willing to up her cals, like maybe bake some “healthy” goods and more calorie dense foods. They told me they would have to put her on growth hormones. They will have to seriously kill me first.
You need to fire those quacks. Sue them for malpractice.
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