Obesity in children - drink more water

By : Forum Member
Published 26th June 2014 |
Read latest comment - 5th September 2014

There has been much in the press lately about children being over weight. Today i saw a headline - water only as a mealtime drink!

Seems that they are blaming sugary drinks as the cause to being over weight in kids.

No mention about the lack of exercise, playing for hours on x-box type consoles for hours on end rather than playing outside.

As a young teen, computers had only really started coming in to main stream, we had 1 Atari console between myself and 2 brothers and that really was only on when my parents weren't watching the 1 TV in the house.

Nowadays - i have 3 TVs in my house, 3 games consoles (ok a bit extreme) and dozens of games for them. I restrict the amount of time my kids play on them, and their weight is fine. They eat chocolate, drink fizzy pop & squash, all in moderation and with a healthy diet.

Stop blaming products for over weight children and start looking at the parents - moderate the intake of unhealthy foods, restrict access to electric or online games and push them outside in to the fresh air !

Simples 


Clive
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Nothing worse or sadder than seeing overweight kids

In my mind (and no doubt controversial) I'd go as far as saying it's child abuse. I'm talking about toddlers up to young teens. By late teens you can only hope you've put them on the right path as they hang out in MacDonald's stealing hub caps

But there is no excuse for having overweight young kids.

I know how hard it is, I'm a foodie chunky monkey myself. But also know how hard it is to be a parent and how hard it is to say no to kids, and the associated fall out/tantrum/riot.

Life would certainly be easier and quieter if I let mine live on rubbish. Bad enough the number of treats that sneak under the radar from Grandparents who play the "we're allowed card"! 


Steve Richardson
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sugar is constantly elevated and there is the the inevitable blood sugar crash, meaning hunger pangs ( false hunger) all too soon.Ergo,  Rinse & Repeat !

Not only do kids eat too much, they eat too often.

The too often dynamic often isn't appreciated”

 

Interesting, that pretty much sounds like me  Certainly eat too often, and always feel like I'm starving when I know I shouldn't be. The missus keeps bullying me into drinking more water, but waters boring 


Steve Richardson
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