I just got to wondering about why do kids get fat. I mean when I was grade school just 10 years ago we had only a couple of obease kids. Now I look around I can't see a 2nd grader under a 100 lbs. I think that it is totaly rediculous. Parents are blaming the schools for it too which is even more rediculious considering that a kid eats on average 1 meal a day there and it's not a real heavy portion either. I understand some kids eat 2 meals a day there, i even did myself. I want to know why the parents think that it's the schools fault when the children only spend 8 hrs a day there. Their are 23.6 hours in a day so the child spends 8 at school that leaves 15.6 hours left, granted that with 8 hours of sleep, 2 hours for homework that leaves 5.6 hours of free time. I remember when I got home I would play outside with my friends or ride bikes, of course I would have a snack but it wasn't a 3 cousre meal. Kids now days can't even get up rides at the fair. I know because I was temporary help. I was working one of those big inflatable titanic slides where you have to climb up on a rope ladder and nearly 80% of the kids couldn't get past the second rung. I would have to go to the top of the ladder pull them up and then climp back down. I want to know how injust a few years kids have gotten so fat. I know that fast food is easy and adictive but so is growing a tomato plant. How are kids becoming so inactive. I read an article a couple of weeks ago about how a company is making skatebords so that they don't sracth the gym floor. Schools are buying them by the hundred so that means kids should be getting more active. I know that gym teachers have always been given a bad rap, but now I think they need all the support they can get. I have heard of them having to sit down with parents and explain that because it was psyhcal education their child was required to do psyical activity.
I hope that when I have kids I am able to be active with them.
I hope we can fix this problem before America is known as "Fat Nation".
I hope that parents take resposnbility for their kids.
I hope to one day not need hope.
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Its true, i met a girl from south africa this summer and she was amazed at how overweight americans are. While i do think that schools could serve much healthier food, i agree that that is not the main problem. I think america has become such an on the go lifestyle that fast food is the only option people have sometimes. i know many nights a week, i dont get home until after 9 which is too late to start fixing supper, so i just pick up fast food. its a habit that needs to be stopped, because the problem really is getting ridiculous
first, and foremost, please fix your grammar. people are not going to listen to you if you misspell ridiculous or misuse their.
secondly, there are many more side to this issue than your blog considers. do a little research, please.
thirdly, not everyone has access to healthcare or fresh fruits and vegetables or even safe places to play outside.
Agreed, you should check your grammer and surely do some more research.
But, in response to the idea stated here, I'm in agreement. Schools, yet some of the problem, are not the main problem. I traveled to Ireland just recently over the summer. I spotted maybe two slighty, and I mean "slightly" overweight people out of each one-hundred. Here in America it is more like at least 50 out of 100, if not much more. I agree something needs to be done, and it is not a bad idea to start with the schools.