Every time I turn on the news or log on onto the internet, I hear another lawsuit against some sort of snack food, or fast food restaurant. Snack foods, like Oreo, change their recipes to appease lawyers. I don’t get it. When I was a child, my parents regulated how much fatty foods I partook upon. I could not sit in the house all day stuffing my fast with sugar, fat, and salt loaded foods. Every day I had three square meals a day with vegetables and a snack, usually something homemade. I was an active child, and my parents encouraged me to go outside, even though I had Nintendo, Sega, and Super Nintendo. Computer games were for times when I couldn’t go out, (ie: Rain, night time, too cold or too hot). I rarely ate at nor wanted to eat at fast food restaurants like McDonald’s. I understand that today’s parents are too busy to always cook well-balanced meals, but it is not the fast food chains’ responsibility to provide children with the nutrition that they need. This society needs to realize that, they cannot allow their children to eat foods with no nutritional value and sit in the house and play video games all day. It’s not about being “fat.” It’s about their heath and well-being. Allowing children to remain inactive all day and living on a diet that no doctor would recommend, and than file frivolous lawsuits, are appalling. The children need to come first and their health needs to be top priority. Parents need to encourage their children to go outside and run around. Give them some fruit instead of junk food. With all the health risk associated with foods high in fat, salt, oil, and cholesterol, parents should have more responsibility about what they feed their kids. I’m not condemning parents they take their kids out to the fast food restaurants that they love, but it is wrong to permit them to live on it while not providing them with the nutrition kids need to grow healthy. Going to McDonald’s or Burger King is fine a couple days a week, but every day is outrageous for anyone to remain healthy. So can parents blame the companies and restaurants for their children becoming obese? Can they really point their finger at them and honestly say, “you are the reason my child is obese with health problems?” Who’s to really blame for America’s children’s weight and weight related problems?
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