Everywhere I go now I see over weight or obesity children it make me sick. What chance do our children have become strong fit and healthy adults when they are obese before they hit high school. I think it very sad to see children as young as 12 developing diabetes. Childhood and adolescence is hard enough with out being over weight at school children can be very mean and don’t realise the long term damage they are causing when giving the fat kid in class a hard time, not to mention the social impacts that someone with a poor self image can have on relationships with the opposite sex.
The biggest question we must ask is who is to blame for our over weight and obese children well there is no one answer or i think we would of fixed this problem already. But some of the key contributor to this problem are the following:
The Parents
Firstly the children’s parents, studies have shown that children with over weight parents have an 80% greater chance of becoming over weight them self’s. lets be frank here the diet of young children is more often than not dictated by their parents and if young children become over weight most likely their family are killing the with kindness.
The Schools
Another big player in this problem are our schools children often have two meals a day from school and what chance do they have if the school canteen is stocked full fatty foods and soft drinks. Shame on the school putting the profit before the health of our children. On a positive note there are some schools that have taken bold steps and eliminated junk food from there canteens which I hope will encourage other school to do the same.
The Times
The last major cause of this epic problem with our children is the time they are living in forget a new skate board or bike for christmas now it all about video games and ipods in fact the gaming industry makes so much money now that its bigger than Hollywood with millions spent on making a video game some how kicking a ball around at the park has become very boring. With our dependance on technology growing everyday Im sure you will agree that this is only going to get worst.
So unless there is a massive shift within the minds of parents our schools and the general life styles of todays children this extremely worrying trend will only gain speed.
Fitness guru Josh Panebianco a personal trainer sydney and the owner of boxing sydney Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/nutrition-articles/winning-the-war-of-childhood-obesity-854171.html
