Obesity rate is rising for kids

Kids don't just wake up one morning being 60lbs overweight. It's a gradual thing and any decent parent should see it and be able to put a halt to it immediately before their kid becomes a fat little bastard with kindergarden breasts.

Boredom and technology. Our lives are too easy.

And... the problem isn't the food you eat, it is what you do post-eating. If you eat a plate of Pasta then play hockey, you are fine. If you eat a plate of Pasta and then watch TV, that is asking to have 12 chins.

Dietery Suppliments are not really necessary. Diet plans, etc... just think! If you can walk into a McDonalds that you have not been employed at and have the staff know you by name, I think there is a problem there.

Originally posted by The Omega
Corran> Huh? Are you kids obese? And if you take responsibility for it, what do you DO about it?

I'm fat and its my fault, but I like being fat I can eat anything I want. It's nobodys fault but my own

yeah, a lot of what u people saying are right.
Parents dont know how to discipline their children anymore, so they do and eat everything. They sits on their asses and watch tv, computers, video games.

And it starts from young too. I think parents have to really rethink this " being kids friends thing and start being their parents"

Fini> Ah, yes. You have a good point with the "parents should tsop being friends with their kids and start acting like parents."

A good parent can do both.

BF> Oh, definitely. But should I chose one, I’d say it’s more important to be “parent to” than “friends with” the kids. To insist the kid exercise and eat healthy, than to want to be all nice and cosy and eat junk and crap.

True. Parenting must come first. However there is such a thing as being to much of a parent. If you just nag, yell and punish your kid, then they will be more likely to rebel in their teen years by doing drugs and what not. You gotta find a way to be both "friends" and Parents with your kids.

My kid is going to be eating right all of his life and doing excersises lik as much as possivble and then when he is about 13 years old then a lil weight lifting then when he is 14 I am going to have him on a full blownbodybuilding training schedule unless he doenst want to work out but really when your big in school you have so much more fun seriously you get so much cool attention

Originally posted by ash007
Should the government encourage more exercising in schools???

California is the only state where schools make it a requirement. Curses!

*makes plans to move to Califoooorniah*
schools you say?
*scratches plans, takes out walking stick* I don't think so 😄

Here ALL schools make exercise a requirement.

yeah alll schools should have that, but many kids still find ways to get out of it.

I couldn't do too much exercise when i went to school cause i have really bad asthma ( its even worse now,), but i still found time to go swimming, cycling and martial arts after school.

SO its this extra hours after school kids should be active, instead of being indoors.

As for the point of kids rebelling during teenage years.........well most teenagers rebel during this stage whether or not they are being disciplined at home. And as years progress a parent has to change their parenting routine from PARENT to friend ( well partially at least)

Give then vegetables soup before and fruit after the meal. Thats waht I do with my son. He eats a lot but He is far from obesity.

Avoid fast food.

Less TV and more exercise and physical games outside.

Maybe kids are fat cause they spend too much time in these damn forums... 😕

If that's the case then why aren't we fat? Oh wait we are 😮

Originally posted by Corlindel
Give then vegetables soup before and fruit after the meal. Thats waht I do with my son. He eats a lot but He is far from obesity.

Avoid fast food.

Less TV and more exercise and physical games outside.

Soup before the meals 👆 absolutely. I guess continental soup in Eurpoe is little different than those in England, but my mom makes continental soup when im home and we eat it before every meal. It isnt very caloric and it fills you up somewhat before the main course. 👆

hey ppls anyone know how to make a post

I used to wonder why kids seemed so much more inclined to sit around the house nowadays. Obviously, technology has given kids more fun stuff to do at home, but there had to be more to it. Like some of you have said, when I was young I would be out from morning til night just running around with friends, skating, whatever.

I don't know why it wasn't obvious to me at first, but depending on where you live it can be pretty dangerous for kids to be out on their own. We live in a decent neighborhood, but there are areas nearby that are pretty sketchy. It seems like all the scum hang out at parks and the local convenience store, which happens to be where the kids always want to go. Our older kids (13 and 15) have the common sense to steer clear of danger, but sadly our 11 year old is just too friendly and gullible to go out on her own. She's actually come home from school with stories of GROWN MEN whistling at her from cars as she walked home. She doesn't even have boobies yet!!!!

In my many years of childhood, I rarely got approached by shady characters. The worlds a different place nowadays.

Kids can still get exercise at home of course (and I make sure mine do), but this defintely a factor in overweight kids.

I couldn't vote on the poll though, you need and "All of the above" choice.