Why are there so many fat little kids running around today?

Question

Like 1 in 3 is a lard ***.

Answer 1

Are there? How does the number per capita compare to the past? When they release figures, they say there is so many more than 20-years ago, but our population is also larger than 20-years ago. How do the numbers compare to the totals? Most of today's overweight adults weren't overweight kids, myself included.

Answer 2

There's a number of explanations - mother was overweight giving birth to a heavier baby; too much junk food; not enough exercise and too much time spent in front of the television, computer screen or video game. Parents also give their kids too much money and allow them to buy all the junk food they want. (Of course, these are all generalizations. This does not indicate what individuals do; it's what the group does.)

I teach high school and the kids are absolutely livid that with the new federal school lunch initiative that they can no longer buy sodas and candy bars on campus. Nor can school clubs sell candy anymore, unless it's one hour before or one hour after schooMF They will say, "Well, I will just bring my own." And they do. In a supermarket near the high school, each morning you can see dozens of teenagers crowd around the candy. soda and snack aisles. I had a kid in my English 11 who would buy 12 candy bars a day and eat nearly all of them. He justified it by saying that he was still skinny.

God help them when they get a bit older. I can see an epidemic of diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer coming from this generation. Unfortunately, their overly-permissive parents will be dead and gone and these kids will have to pay their own health bills- and the medical bills of everyone else of their generation.

Answer 3

One reason is that we have engineered the activity out of our lives.

I don't know how old you are, but I remember actually having to get up to change the TV channel--to one of all 3!

When I was growing up, we did not have weed-eaters, we pulled grass, we opened the garage door ourselves, we washed dishes etc.

Our mothers where home, and cooked dinner. No matter what food you eat, it is not as bad for you homemade as it is when it is processed, as fast food is.

The playground athlete is all but extinct, esp in the new subdivisions. Children have play dates instead of making sure you can hear mom call-whatever you do, be home when the street lights come on!

Can you imagine how mad people in carefully zoned subdivisions would be if kids were playing kickball in their front yard?

As a result, children are also playing more 'organized sports,' all lead by an adult, with no opportunity to learn the conflict resolution and relationship skills necessary to function in the real world.

Some of this is because of our culture of fear, which the media has helped perpetuate, child molesters and predators, kidnapping etc. Crime stats clearly show that children are in much more danger in their own home, or from their own family than from strangers.

Sadly, more schools than you would like to think, because of the pressure of standardized testing have cut PE and recess to almost nothing. I am not sure how the schools get away with it, here in Texas law requires 30 minutes a day of exercise, when my child was in 3rd grade-he got 30 minutes a WEEK! (this is an entirely new topic about why we have behavior problems in schools).

Parents, like all Americans are working longer and longer hours to keep up with the cost of living (I will not comment on how Americans seem to be all living beyond their means).

Mom can't have dinner on the table when she just got home, or may not even be home yet:so, processed or fast food.

I can remember my mother, 'dissing' for all practical purposes, a working mother on our block--"she just feeds those kids TV dinners"--as they were called in the 'olden days.' Sadly no one offered to help that Mom, but she was a pariah, not only because she worked, but she was divorced and did not have time to cook for her kids.

I can't remember where I read it, but there was an article last week about how periodic activity during the day does more good for weight loss, or not gaining it to start off with than 'working out.'

Just my thoughts.

Answer 4

more time spent on the computer and playing video games,less time spent running around.also,stupid laws.when i was a kid,i walked to the elementary school-bcause i lived only one block away...the kids who live in my parents house now ride the bus this ONE BLOCK bcause the school has banned walking,saying its "a liability issue." also,stuff like jonbenet is so widely publicized,parents want their kids in sight at all times-no more biking around town anymore...not that u could bike much if u want to-the bike paths i used in the 7o's are now a 4-lane highway.no one in their right mind would want a kid riding on that !!!!also,the pervasiveness of "hi-fructose corn syrup".this cheap sugar alternative is in freakin' EVERYTHING-read labels,and try to avoid it for a week-u'd have to become a subsistance farmer to get away from that crap-i know,i try...studies have shown that rats fed a same amount of food,but one group drinks only water,and the other drinks hi fructose syrup,the rats who drink the water mixed with syrup become MORBIDLY OBESE !!!!! it causes the liver to metabolise sugar in a different way than table sugar does,more is stored as fat. u cant tell me this doesnt have an effect,30 yrs ago,there was just as much mcjunk food around,but its really in the last 20 years obesity rates have shot up-about the time food makers stopped using sugar and moved to the less expensive fructose syrup.also,u used to have to take gymn 3x per week in school,now its down to once-altho thats slowly changing as school districts realise todays kids are unhealthy.if obesity rates are not controlled,this will be the first generation in usa-probly elsewhere,too-that DOESNT reach or exceed the life expectancy of the generation preceding it.

Answer 5

Because of TV,Internet and Fast Food.By 2010 everyone in the world will be obese. Well except for Nichole Richie,ewwwwwwww.

Answer 6

Lazy parents + Lazy kids = FAT TUBS OF LAZY LARD

Answer 7

I AGREE!!!! Parents always blaming others, when its their fault!! they let their kids eat everything and let them stay in the house all day. i have a 4 year old and he is trim, both sides of our families have fat people in them, but i am not gonna sit around and let my child get fat because of it...hell naw! It really kills me when they are like " but he wont stop crying if i dont get him twinkies every week!" YOUR THE PARENT! he doesnt have money, you buy what he needs and he deals with it! Period!!!

Answer 8

It's due to a diet of fast, junk food. It's the fault of the parents and not the "neglected" children. Children learn their eating habits from their parents.

Answer 9

Well we've always had the fat little ***** brats, but now due to 40+ years of mass immigration from Latin America and their third world breeding habits we have a lot of fat little hispanic brats runnung around.

Answer 10

Because its 'fat little kids running around ' day today...didnt you know? Im celebrating it, myself