Burrrrp
300 or 400 pound kids? This story is almost too insane to believe!
Dr. William Cochran, a pediatric gastroenterologist and nutritionist for the Geisinger Clinic in Danville, Pa., said he sees many youngsters in his weight management clinic who weigh 300 to 400 pounds. He is also seeing more and more children with diabetes, high blood pressure, even liver disease.
I remember cartoons and futurists predicting humans would have huge heads and little bodies, since robots would be doing all the work and humans would be doing all the thinking. Guess they got the body parts mixed up.
I could blame this on our instant, TV dinner, no attention span society where no-one has time to bring up the kids, but I’d be repetitive now, wouldn’t I?
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This does not surprise me. Kids today spend far too much time playing video games and eating junk food, sometimes all day every day like this. Parents do not bother to monitor things and drive them everywhere. The amount of time playing video games and watching TV should be limited to no more than two hours per day. Kids must be encouraged to do healthy outdoor exercise such as bicycling, swimming and sports. Even just going for a walk is good exercise. Don’t drive them to school when it’s raining, buy them coats and boots and let them splash their way to school – they will enjoy it. They should also be made to drink milk and eat fruit. It takes very little effort to make these kinds of changes – it just takes willpower.