Why Don’t You Just Buy Your Kid a Pack of Smokes?

Written by Jonathan AluzasWhy Don't You Just Buy Your Kid a Pack of Smokes - Child Obesity (Part One)

This is not the kids' fault, it's the parents.
Is this healthy eating?
Long before the data began pouring in about the staggering increase in child obesity I began noticing that kids just seemed fatter and more out of shape than they used to be.? It was just an observation, but seemed terribly obvious to me (it was one of those things that, when studies came out, I thought "Good lord, someone actually paid for a study on this?? You can look around for FREE and come to the same conclusion!").In recent years I've noticed a cultural shift in our children.? They don't move.? They just don't move.? When I was a kid, everyone played sports, and everyone played multiple sports.? There was no down time, we'd just transition from one uniform to another as the year went on.? Everyone climbed trees and played tag, everyone played Danish or dodge ball at recess.? Keeping us inside on rainy days was cruel and unusual punishment and usually ended with us being ejected into the wet outdoors just to shut us up, even if it meant having a kid come home covered in mud.? Even the heavy kids were active, they were just, well, larger.? It seems that the minority of them play organized sports and even fewer are active on their own accord. (more…)