Childhood obesity up 10x over last 40 years

must be all that tourney ball they are playing.

This is an expensive problem for everyone, even non fatties.

This shite needs to stop.

I am curious where parents of fat kids stand in the healthcare debate too.

My cousin (offshore baw) and his Amazon wife have 3 of the fattest kids I've ever seen.

Ask them if they play any sports. Nope.

Constantly walking around with iPad and iPhone.

Our diets / consumption of processed foods ( especially in America ) has drastically changed over the past 40 years as well...the most impactful culprit in my opinion

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When I was a kid there were no cell phones, no Playstation or X Box, no personal computers, etc, etc. We had to drag our asses outside every day and create our own activities. We played sandlot baseball and football all the time.

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And your generation is still fat. Might be worse now but most fat kids now have fat parents

All boils down to laziness. Fat parents don’t give a damn bc they’re too lazy to care for themselves much less their kids. They’re fat bc of the diet they keep, and hand down to the kid. They usually don’t cook meals and usually buy junk at stores.

no wonder we suck at soccer.

There are many issues that cause this. It is a mix of bad and unhealthy diet and absolutely no exercise.

When I was younger I ate unhealthy stuff but once dinner was over I was outside running and sweating and very active. Kids these days do nothing but sit on their butts on their Iphones, Ipads, Playstation and Xbox.

Parents need to shut these things off and make their kids go outside and get some exercise. As a society we have become very lazy and with a bad diet and no exercise this is the end result. We can't blame anyone but ourselves.