I just read an article, talking about obesity in America---& it said that kids today are 133% larger than they were 15 years ago.
Not sure how anyone can be 133% of anything...LOL!!...but that was the # in the article.
Anyway---I DO see a real problem, w/ kids sitting at their PC's, X-Boxes, PS2's, etc...all day long...not getting any excersise.
But I digress...
My survey is: did anyone else read that article? If so, what do you think?
2006-10-29 20:32:22 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
HAHAHA! That word would be, :exercise!
2006-10-29 20:33:33 · update #1
I imagine the 'thumbs-down" would be from an obese child?! LOL!!!
Hey---don't shoot the messenger....
2006-10-29 20:52:43 · update #2
fissy---GREAT point!!!
Either way, it's a bit scary...
2006-10-29 20:56:55 · update #3
The 133% is like saying a kid weighs 100 pounds this year.
Next year, he weighs 200 pounds; a 100% increase.
The following year, 233 pounds; 33% more than last year and 133% more than 2 years ago.
Not everything equals 100%.
Other articles talk about America as a whole being 85% overweight. It isn't just the kids. It's parents not cooking and families not eating together anymore. It's fast food and junk food snacks. Parents setting bad examples and not enforcing anything.
I had video games as a kid but I couldn't watch TV until homework was done and even then only if my grades were good. AND only for 2 hours a night!! Video games were for weekends and bad weather for the most part.
The Boomer Generation only has themselves to blame although they've spent the last 20 years blaming everyone else (tobacco, McDonald's, A.D.D. , Ridlin, timeouts etc). No real discipline leads to disorder and chaos.
The next 20 years will be very interesting indeed. Keep an eye on heart disease, stress and diabetes related problems.
Good luck and stay healthy.
2006-10-29 20:52:34 · answer #1 · answered by mcm5274 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read the article and I agree, however, I'm not much to talk..I would be considered "obese" by the clinical standards. But, as far as the reason behind kids being that way..well, who's REALLY to blame? I say it's not only the kids responsibility but also the parents. The kids wouldn't have video games and PS2's and all that stuff if their parents didn't allow them to. When I was a kid, I grew up in the country. We didn't have PS2's and all that. My closest friend that was my age was about 2 1/2 miles away, and I would ride my bike to go see her, and then then we'd ride our bikes around town all day. We would play kickball in the empty lots by my house and play baseball in the middle of the road (not a good idea if you live in the city). Also, my parents made me do yard work, like mowing the grass.
2006-10-30 04:46:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kids are spending way too much time in front of computers and TVs and not moving. When I was little we played outside from sunup to sundown. Kids need more of that these days.
2006-10-30 04:36:50 · answer #3 · answered by parrothead2371 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I didnt see the article but agree that kids are fatter than ever. This is because of 'supersizing' (even kids meals have bigger sizes now!!) And, kids today have no concept about 'playing' outside. Using their mind and bodies rather than the computer and ps.
2006-10-30 04:36:42 · answer #4 · answered by intenseone 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, It's sad as a culture we promote that behaviour. But what I have noticed is that it's not just kid's being overweight but underweight as well. There seems to be no middle anymore, It's just one extreme to the other.
2006-10-30 04:54:39 · answer #5 · answered by flissy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I read it.
It's not new news, but it still needs some new direction and better planning in place to support healthy children that do not have to battle obesity.
2006-10-30 04:35:33 · answer #6 · answered by Sunshine 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know they have said 65% of the kids today are over weight and obese, the rest i wont comment on, in leu of that it might incriminate me. peace out
I AM
2006-10-30 05:23:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I do not play my PS" very much...however I did just get Scarface for it and have been playing it a bit...
I have burnt so many calories shouting at the tv that it is equivalent to a work-out
2006-10-30 05:15:08 · answer #8 · answered by Ichi 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No I did not sorry,but it`s a fact these kids need to exercise more.
2006-10-30 04:34:24 · answer #9 · answered by E.B. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
thats really bad parents should stop spoiling their kids
and encourage them to play outside you know do sports and other
out door things
2006-10-30 04:38:28 · answer #10 · answered by destiny 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋