Ok, so here is the deal. Kids these days have no clue what physical activity is. They just sit their fat ass in front of the computer or tv, playing fucking video games and stuffing fucking junk food in their mouths. Childhood obesity is a problem and the reason is the way people are parenting their kids.
When I was young we did not have video games. My parents refused to buy my brother and I that shit. They said go outside and amuse yourselves. Use your imagination, none of this computerised bullshit. I used to go out and play street hockey till it was too dark to see anything. It didn't even matter how cold it was. My friends and I would play no matter what. And in the summer, we would hangout and go biking in the park trails our play hide and seek in the bush. We had fun playing outside. And I should mention that none of my friends are obese. A little bit of outside activities is good enough to keep your kids healthy.
I look at parents now and they plunk their kids down in front of the damn tv with their fucking video games and let them eat whatever they want. There just isn't any care for how kids grow up right now. We need to realize how bad this childhood obesity is. Get your kids outside and do something. Exercise damn it!
Discuss please. Want to hear some feed back on this.
Cheers. Rob.
Yes I totally agree with the part of how people are parenting their children. But what if its not by handing them a video games or a television show or a bag of chips for an after school snack?! And maybe its their life style?
Junk food can be CHEAP- Lets face it- if a mom or dad cant cook, they will give their child/ren junk like Mc D's, chicken fingers and fries or chips, etc. from Wal-mart! OR it can be expensive- Taking your family out to eat on a daily basis- cause your to dam lazy to cook. But its more so geared to the side of poverty. The higher the poverty level- the higher the obesity rate!
So give it that these children are growing up in an enviornment that the parenting is lazy, or cant cook, or uneducation with good health and/or cant afford "good" meals- yes these children will be FAT! Its not cause they were given VIDEO GAMES or a TELEVISION (some cases -Yes!) Most- NO. Kids dont know any better and when you grow up in a family that doesnt teach you how to maintain good health and exercise, NOR do they have any friends to go and play with cause they are fat and made fun of already- SO all they know how to do is EAT- because thats all they are taught! Its not just over weight kids these days, parents are huge! When you see a fat child- you normally see a fat parent! So is this all caused by T.V and video games.....NOPE!
Posted by: Lindsayvien | 02/05/2011 at 01:58 AM
I'm am not just blaming TV and video games. The biggest thing is the parents and the fact that they are not promoting active lifestyles. People are just lazy, the kids see this and follow suit. You can't blame poverty for obesity either. Eating junk food and MacDonalds all the time can be very expensive. An apple is a great snack, and a bag of those cost about 4 or 5 bucks. What I'm trying to get at is the active lifestyles that are missing out of most kids lives. Just by getting out and running around increases the heart rate and burns calories. And you can't say that parents are uneducated about bad health choices. It's common sense. I'm not saying they need to know everything there is about calorie intake and how much work it takes to burn off. I'm just saying that it's common sense the more active you are the better you feel and the healthier you will be.
Posted by: Rob Morin | 02/05/2011 at 12:16 PM