Here’s an excerpt from the New York Times today, April 27, 2009 on the editorial page (click the title for the full article). This is one facet of the problem. How about reinstating mandatory daily physical education that is physical and educational. We need to teach our children how to exercise, when to exercise and what to do.Selling Obesity at SchoolThe federal school lunch program, which subs
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KeymasterI took my daughter to a play area a couple days ago and a family with 5 children came in shortly after. All 5 of the kids were obese. I’d guess 2 of them were morbidly obese. They were all under 10 years old. I couldn’t help but think it was child abuse and that these children were starting off their life with a pretty serious burden that would likely stay with them there entire life.
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I was criticized for feeding my child baby food out of the jars up till about a month ago. My retort has been everything is fine, weight and height are 50%, and he doesn’t have a deficiency yet other the fact he may like baseball or golf more than track, but he has been to track meets and loves the shot and running around the fence surrounding the track. The thing is I haven’t seen obese children at track meets or the parks we go play at.
The only thing I worry about right now is his iron intake as he is bruising a lot which may be a result of his want to climb and jump/dive on everything and play in rocks.
I don’t think people understand how fat cells operate. They develop and multiply in early childhood then they keep the same count throughout life thereafter just decreasing or increasing in size. The Obesity risk starts in childhood when we start overfeeding our kids.
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I don’t think people understand how fat cells operate. They develop and multiply in early childhood then they keep the same count throughout life thereafter just decreasing or increasing in size. The Obesity risk starts in childhood when we start overfeeding our kids.
EXACTLY! This is what I was getting at. I feel terrible for saying and thinking it but when I see morbidly obese 3 and 4 year olds my first thought is ‘this kid’s life is ruined.’ If they are ever able to get their weight under control they will likely battle weight issues their entire life and they’ve already established both physiological and lifestyle baggage that they may not ever be able to rid themselves of.
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[quote author="Daniel Andrews" date="1240912390"]
I don’t think people understand how fat cells operate. They develop and multiply in early childhood then they keep the same count throughout life thereafter just decreasing or increasing in size. The Obesity risk starts in childhood when we start overfeeding our kids.EXACTLY! This is what I was getting at. I feel terrible for saying and thinking it but when I see morbidly obese 3 and 4 year olds my first thought is ‘this kid’s life is ruined.’ If they are ever able to get their weight under control they will likely battle weight issues their entire life and they’ve already established both physiological and lifestyle baggage that they may not ever be able to rid themselves of.[/quote]
I know, I just wanted to expand on what people might not know. Everyone thinks you need a plump baby for the baby to be healthy. I am questioning this belief more and more every new day. It’s not like my own child doesn’t eat McDonalds or other fast food, but he doesn’t need to eat all 4 chicken nuggets and I won’t force him too either. I think parents should be more concerned about their child getting a good dose of the correct vitamin and minerals over the course of a week’s worth of food and water too.
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That’s my thought process as well. The ‘acceptable’ and ‘recommended’ weight guidelines for children have actually gone up over the past 20 years. It’s almost as if it’s an effort to assure negligent parents that there child’s not fat.
My daughter’s the same way. We feed her very healthy but she eats everything. She’s extremely active and despite being on the high side for height she’s actually under the recommended weight. We’re not worried at all because of the above points…she actually looks very muscular.
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That’s my thought process as well. The ‘acceptable’ and ‘recommended’ weight guidelines for children have actually gone up over the past 20 years. It’s almost as if it’s an effort to assure negligent parents that there child’s not fat.
I agree, the whole notion of placating the situation by effectively “changing the rules” and I think part of that goes back to those oft used insurance charts where you had to fit a certain weight/height ratio for “best rates”, I mean those were skewed from the start simply because if your percentage of muscle/fat was on the much healthier/fit side the ratio, in the insurance industries eyes, it was actually going the WRONG way.
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