I believe the key to prevent obesity is for parents to become more aware of proper healthy eating. Unless one has a medical disorder causing it then it can be prevented. All I see today is parents feeding their children to death. If more people took notice of what was really good for their children and instilled good healthy eating habits while they were young there would not be such a epidemic of obese people today. ↑ |
I absolutely agree. It has to be supported as a lifestyle at home other wise even if the kids want to be healthy and active it all gets cancelled out at home. On the other hand it also hard for parents to be the ones to tell their kids as kids often tune out what the parent has to say! ↑ |
When bringing up a child you don't have to verbally tell them what is healthy, you simply feed them what is healthy. As they grow they will continue with the eating habits that have been instilled in them since birth and most likely continue in to adult hood.
I see so many obese kids today and many are young children, most are not getting the proper nutrition and are being thought poor eating habits. These very kids will go on to becoming morbidly obese, all because they were being poorly fed by their parents.
I do believe that there needs to be more education for new parents on how to feed their child healthy from an early age. Stay away from the fast food, don't feed them cakes, cookies and candy all the time these things only lead to a unhealthy adult life.
Proper eating and a healthy life style cant be thought to them when they become young children or teens they need to learn by example.
It is great to see there is help out there for those that are unfortunate not to have the proper education at home and do find them selfs obese at a young age. If there was only more support out there then maybe there would be less teen obesity, as well as heart disease and all the other life threating ailments that go along with obesity. ↑ |