Comments on: DOCTOR IS IN: Childhood obesity bigger than a weight issue http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/07/13/doctor-is-in-childhood-obesity-bigger-than-a-weight-issue/ Advice and suggestions for taking care of you and your family Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:18:14 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Hello, Boston. - Mel Robbins: the blog http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/07/13/doctor-is-in-childhood-obesity-bigger-than-a-weight-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-1069 Hello, Boston. - Mel Robbins: the blog Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:37:26 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=817#comment-1069 [...] children to balloon to the point their health is drastically affected.  Who is to blame?  And do people really understand how much bigger this issue is than a few extra pounds.  Let’s put it this way - 20 years ago, the “fat kid” [...] [...] children to balloon to the point their health is drastically affected.  Who is to blame?  And do people really understand how much bigger this issue is than a few extra pounds.  Let’s put it this way – 20 years ago, the “fat kid” [...]

]]> By: Business Owner http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/07/13/doctor-is-in-childhood-obesity-bigger-than-a-weight-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-1064 Business Owner Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:36:56 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=817#comment-1064 Steve, you have got to be kidding me! Air quality is not what makes the kids stay inside or what makes them inactive. Growing up we went outside because we didn't have anything to do inside. TV was limited to an hour or so a day unless it rained. Parents just need to make the kids stay active and not be couch potatoes. Instead of giving the kid an xbox give them a bike. Steve, you have got to be kidding me! Air quality is not what makes the kids stay inside or what makes them inactive. Growing up we went outside because we didn’t have anything to do inside. TV was limited to an hour or so a day unless it rained. Parents just need to make the kids stay active and not be couch potatoes. Instead of giving the kid an xbox give them a bike.

]]> By: mystery poster http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/07/13/doctor-is-in-childhood-obesity-bigger-than-a-weight-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-1063 mystery poster Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:09:06 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=817#comment-1063 I think that this is a problem with multiple causes: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Georgia has a high obesity rate among adults, too. Some of it comes down to over-scheduled kids. There isn't enough time for nutritious family dinners, so parents grab Happy Meals and they eat in the car on the way to soccer practice. Occasionally, this wouldn't be so bad but when it becomes the rule rather than the exception, the waistline grows. There is also an incredible amount of denial on parents' part. They fool themselves into thinking that it's just "baby fat" or that it makes their child cute. They are not looking through objective eyes. I think that this is a problem with multiple causes:

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Georgia has a high obesity rate among adults, too.

Some of it comes down to over-scheduled kids. There isn’t enough time for nutritious family dinners, so parents grab Happy Meals and they eat in the car on the way to soccer practice. Occasionally, this wouldn’t be so bad but when it becomes the rule rather than the exception, the waistline grows.

There is also an incredible amount of denial on parents’ part. They fool themselves into thinking that it’s just “baby fat” or that it makes their child cute. They are not looking through objective eyes.

]]> By: Keen2learn http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/07/13/doctor-is-in-childhood-obesity-bigger-than-a-weight-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-1061 Keen2learn Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:17:25 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=817#comment-1061 The greatest challenge is to get parents and children to recognise the issue. We all suffer from a habitual lifestyle and once the mould has been set it is a far greater problem to get out of the rut. Educational games that encourage rather than ridicule or shock could hold the answer The greatest challenge is to get parents and children to recognise the issue. We all suffer from a habitual lifestyle and once the mould has been set it is a far greater problem to get out of the rut. Educational games that encourage rather than ridicule or shock could hold the answer

]]> By: Steeeeeev http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/07/13/doctor-is-in-childhood-obesity-bigger-than-a-weight-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-1056 Steeeeeev Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:46:24 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=817#comment-1056 Inactivity is related to poor air quality... clean up this air and kids (and adults) will exercise more. When you want to calm bees down, you smoke them.. same principle hold for humans... when the air quality is poor, we have a biiological instinct to be inactive. : ) S Inactivity is related to poor air quality… clean up this air and kids (and adults) will exercise more. When you want to calm bees down, you smoke them.. same principle hold for humans… when the air quality is poor, we have a biiological instinct to be inactive. : ) S

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