Nutrition

I wanted to share this information with you as I feel it is so important, If you are a Mom/Dad, sister, brother, son, daughter or just a friend.  Please hear this message, it affects our Children, which is our Future.  

No More Laughing at Fat Kids

Article by Deepak Chopra

It's a paradox that a problem like childhood obesity should crop up in a country like America where we are flooded with information about nutrition. At any age, obesity is generally considered a lifestyle disorder. Only a small percentage of patients suffer from hormonal issues, for example. For everyone else, weight gain is related to choices that we can make and unmake.

The implication is that children are now making the same bad choices that adults do, joining the epidemic of obesity that is associated in the long run with considerable health risks from diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. Yet the paradox goes deeper. The world teeters on the edge of drastic food shortages in the coming decades, while at the same time childhood obesity has spread beyond the developed world. 


Here's what the overall picture looks like.  In the U.S., about 17 percent of all kids (ages 2-19) are obese. In the EU, about a third of all children are overweight, and of those, 300,000 are obese. Developing nations including China, Brazil, Thailand, South Africa and many others are now facing epidemics of their own.


Prevention, as always, is the best cure. It's far better not to put on the pounds than to try and lose them afterwards. In the case of childhood overeating, starting the bad pattern early makes it all the more difficult to change. Children can't be expected to break habits on their own, or to make good lifestyle choices without guidance. Parents bear the sole responsibility along with schools. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE.  



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