Let them eat berries and seeds (Obesity)

Member Name: fuzzybear

Product:	Obesity
Date:	07/05/08 (86 review reads)
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Advantages: None, it kills

Disadvantages: It kills

We are constantly being told that as a nation we are getting fatter with waistlines expanding and some quite horrendous health problems like diabetis and health disease occurring in people at an ever younger age.

Last night I saw part of a programme on toddlers who were clinically obese and for the most part it was noticeable that for the most part the parents also were on the heavy side as well. Part of the problem these days seems to be that parents are scared to let their children out to play hence they lead very sedentary lives in front of the computer or the television.

On the radio yesterday there was a spokesman from some cycling group talking about the fact that many children do not learn to ride in part because of parental fears and the fact that parents drive their children to school where as years ago they would have cycled, certainly I can always remember cycling the mile to school each day unless it was raining or snowing and then we walked or if we were very lucky a neighbour would give us a lift. Partly this was due to the fact that we only had one car which Dad used for work and that shows another reason for spreading waistlines, the fact that a lot of families now have two cars.

Doet obviously plays a part, and the high sugar content and high fat content of a convenience lifestyle does not help but the real issue for me is the lack of exercise peole now get, unfortunately this starts from an early age and is a lot more difficult to correct in later life.

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