Kids should eat less at fast food restaurants and those businesses should not using “trick” marketing strategies to attract kids to go to their restaurants. They can’t vote, they can’t smoke, they can’t watch rated R movies, but they can kill themselves with poisonous foods. Those poor obese kids are heading down a long path of health problems.
As we know fast food is one of the main reasons that make people fat and bring lot healthy issues to people in today society, especially kids, adults can control themselves sometimes, but kids don’t have autonomy to control themselves in any situation.
We cannot solve healthy problems of people in one day; it is a long term goal. We should take care of healthy from our daily life, we cannot stop eating foods due to lot objective and subjective reasons, but we could eat less, it is the first step to improve our health.
Some people think people get fat because of a lack of exercise, however from various of research around world, lack of exercise is not to blame for increased levels of childhood obesity, scientists have claimed. A new report suggests that physical inactivity appears to be the result of fatness, not its cause.
Researchers now believe that overfeeding by parents and children eating more junk food is the root cause of weight gain.
The report also said targeting nutrition rather than exercise was the best way to help obese children lose weight.
The EarlyBird team followed more than 200 children in Plymouth over three years, monitoring their fat and exercise levels at regular intervals.
They found that body fat levels had an effect on physical activity, but that varying activity did not lead to any changes in fatness.
The paper, published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, suggests that overweight children may think about their body negatively, shying away from sports and exercise as a result.
Dr David Haslam, from the National Obesity Forum, welcomed the study but cautioned that the wider health benefits of exercise for children must not be overlooked.
He told the BBC: 'The EarlyBird team really force us to question our comfortable assumptions regarding childhood obesity. What we, as clinicians must do, is nod reverently at their work, learn lessons from it, and reappraise our own practices accordingly.
What we shouldn't do is take the paper at face value and allow lean children to be as lazy as they please, as that would be a catastrophic mistake.'
A Department of Health spokesman added: 'We are committed to tackling childhood obesity and this study provides some useful messages on the importance of a child's early years and the impact this can have on their future health and behavior.
We will consider this evidence alongside other research which has different findings on the link between physical activity and weight when we are developing our policy to produce better public health outcomes.'
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hi guys, i was just curious to get your thoughts on how much of these bad eating habits in children are due to the parenting, or the children themselves. Furthermore how would you go about educating children on healthy eating habits.
ReplyDeleteHaowen Chen said.....
ReplyDeleteAs we know, children do not have autonomy to control themselves to eat “Junk food”, they do not know what is good for them and what is bad for them, if they knew it, I believe they will control themselves. If their parents can limit their children to eat “Junk food”, the bad sequence will not happen---obesity. When I was young, my parents limit me or prohibit me to drink soft drinks and eat some unhealthy food, I was not happy with that, but now I’m really appreciate them to do that, because I do not have healthy problems due to the bad eating habit. But my friend, total opposite with my situation, he is real fat now (now inherited, because he parents do not).
We should tell children the bad consequence about when they getting fat, cannot be a football player, dancing, etc.
hi,
ReplyDeletefrom what i think it is a parents issues as wells not only from the children. from my experiences some of the parents teach their children never eft the food. from some point it is a food but it scan become a issues for their children later on, they try to eat everything and finished everything on table that mean to be left over for tomorrow. there is also other issue, where the parents allow their children to eat junk food as much as they want or the children just want to eat fried chicken or something unhealthy, which lead to the overweight.