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Unfortunately, obese parents invariably pass their lifestyle on to their children.  When parents are obese they are usually carbohydrate addicts.  Obesity in children usually means the same.  When I was young there wasn’t much activity you could do indoors. Riding our bikes, catching frogs and snakes, climbing trees, looking for fossils, running and playing were what we did every day.  I don’t remember seeing many obese kids or parents around then.

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Probably not. But parents need to educate themselves about the kind of diet they pass on to their kids.  Obesity in children, and in parents, usually spells carbohydrate addiction.  I don’t think obesity in children should be considered neglect when parents are given official misinformation about what to feed them.  I do think parents have a responsibility to inform themselves beyond the official line. You can learn more about carbohydrate addicts here:

It would be a frightening thought though to think that parents have no sense of responsibility to their children.  That they may carelessly make maybe bad carbs food choices for their kids and letting them become obese—parents make bad choices all the time—but a mistake does not make a crime.  What is a crime is the fact that people can declare themselves diet experts and knowingly, or simply stupidly spread misinformation, bad information and sometimes dangerous information without ever having to be held responsible.

As far as what people can do when “there are fast food chains on every block” (not to mention processed food for sale in supermarkets) is to learn how the body works, what type of food the digestive system can handle and exactly what role is played by carbohydrates foods and proteins food in in relation to our diet.  Once we have those answers we will know how to select the right food and avoid trans. Fat, sodium and other dangerous additives. We will stop buying stuff like soda, junk food—or, like my parents did, just buy one dessert or other snack as long as everything else is healthy.

Finally–and this can be a bit difficult when people are always working—COOK YOUR OWN FOOD and pack your kids a school lunch box.

That is how you avoid obesity in children and in yourself.

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Of course not!
It is like Mrs. Obama said– there is no reason not to let your child have the occasional “junk food”… What is child abuse is not giving them anything else OTHER than junk food.
Not only due to obesity– but to malnutrition and growth issues related to eating habits.  Carbohydrates foods have a lot to answer for.  There were no obesity issues among adults forty years ago. Obesity in children was unheard of.  But then we were coerced to change out traditional diet…  The consequences can be seen everywhere there is people.

The BIGGEST contributor to obesity in children is carbohydrate addiction.  It has become entrenched in our lifestyle.  Until we cure that addiction obesity statistics will continue to sky rocket.
Gone are the days when your child could safely stay outside all day running, biking, jumping rope– now they are on the computer, playing video games, texting etc… And can’t even walk to a friends house without worrying about their safety!

And if parents would get-together to FORCE the schools to feed the children correctly at lunch– AND have recess & Gym- 1/2 the battle is won!
(our schools got rid of outdoor recess and gym for budget reasons– and they serve nothing but starches and fried carbs food JUNK at every lunch!)

It is NOT for our Government to tell us how to shop, cook, eat or raise our kids– but I believe teaching kids how the body works and what kind of food the body knows how to process would be a good start.  It would help even more if parents could be taught the same thing.  Most don’t seem to know what the body does with the food they eat.  That should be mandatory education for adults and children!!

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Because most parents today don’t seem to know or care what goes into their bodies.  Children get the same message.  Often they basically feed themselves, eating what ever is in the pantry.  That usually means chips, cookies, and juices from the fridge, Pop, snacks etc.  So many people have given themselves and their children up to obesity and carbohydrate addiction.   Yet with very little effort they could cure their addiction and prevent weight gain and obesity in children for good.

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For one thing, I know obesity in children is not genetic.  it is a condition kids inherit from their parents not from genes but from their lifestyle.  How do I know that?  In the past, not so long ago, the only kids, (and adults) who were obese were sick.  They were usually in the 10% category of type A diabetes.  Sometimes the problem was related to an under active thyroid.  Normal healthy people were slim people.   This was also before type 2 diabetes was known.  Obesity in children and adults is entirely diet related.  Forty years ago the normal diet was the traditional diet based on proteins food. Then some people caused a panic about cholesterol and diet.  it seemed just about everybody had high cholestrol.  Soon people were persuaded to switch to a high carbs food diet to reduce their cholesterol numbers.

Sounds reasonable right?  There was just one problem, the test were all wrong.  Instead of showing the hdl ldl ratio, they simply added the numbers together.  This guaranteed an abnormally high reading.  So they quickly corrected their error Right? Wrong.  It took till quite recently, thirty years later, to fix their mistake.  In the meantime, millions of people had been persuaded to switch their diet from the proteins food our body was designed to process. To carbs food, particularly processed carbs food that is alien to our body and highly addictive.  And the most extraordinary thing about that?  Not a single person ever stopped to ask how the body felt about that sudden change.

Well, with the benefit of hindsight, we know how the body felt.  Today we can take a good look around and agree that yes, everybody is getting fat.   Obesity statistics are climbing,  doctors warn of an imminent type2 diabetes epidemic, heart disease, colon and bowel cancer have never been more common.   These are all diet related diseases.  Sure, there are other causes such as lack of  physical Activity and regular exercise.  Sedentary behavior – High frequency of television viewing, computer usage, and similar behavior that substitutes for physical activity.  But none of them come close to the damage caused by carbohydrate addiction.

Obesity in children and adults will continue to increase till we accept the problem and cure our carbohydrate addiction.

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