Fab1b;1039210 wrote:http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/georgia-childhood-obesity-campaign-draws-criticism-205800371.html

What say you? I see little fat asses all the time, usually accompanied by their fat ass parents. I feel sorry for those young kids, they have no control over what they can eat or do. Parents if you kid is fat, its your fault!!! Not mine, not McDondalds!

Now with that said once the kid is able to make responsible food and exercise choices for themselves the blame will begin to switch to them if they continue down the same path their parents led them! </SPAN>

dwccrew;1039255 wrote:I'm not so sure if you can "switch" the blame to the kids. If they weren't ever taught by their parents how to eat right and exercise, what makes you think they just automatically know once they are old enough to prepare their own meals? Unless you expect gym teachers to teach these kids? LOL, that's laughable. They don't teach physical fitness anymore so than the parents of these obese children!

THE4RINGZ;1039313 wrote:In these times with all the distractions to a healthy lifestyle parents need to take parental control over their kids and make them eat healthier and get some exercise.

password;1039344 wrote:When you look around in public, most of the parents are obese and lead an unhealthy lifestyle. Years ago when I was in school we had gym class just about every day of the week and when you were home, you couldn't wait to get outside and play a pick up game of some sorts. I don't even think kids still have gym class 1 day a week and you never see kids outside playing sports, they are to busy playing on the computer or some other electronic games to pass time.

ccrunner609;1039230 wrote:I was skinny growing up, I am skinny now. Its a choice I make everyday.

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Fab1b;1039238 wrote:Its just a sad world we live in!! Times have changed that is for sure. Some people out there are just do damned lazy or just want to make excuses and blame everyone else. Sickens me really!

I Wear Pants;1039349 wrote:Kids still play sports and play outside. It's the diets that have changed and also the kids who were sedentary are much more so now.

But I'd put it more on the diet.

password;1039372 wrote:You are right about the diet being part of the problem, but my wife and I talk about this often and we seldom see kids out playing in the yards compared to when we were young. Years ago you could drive by the ballfields and there was always kids playing a pick up game of baseball, football or basketball when they were home from school.

OSH;1039399 wrote:I think that no one sees the "pick-up games" because everything is so organized now. There are soooooo many kids in organized sports that their breaks are probably spent not playing "pick-up." Mommy and daddy have to rush around all over the place to get little Jack or Jill from football, soccer, cheerleading, basketball, wrestling, baseball, softball, dance, gymnastics, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, etc. that when do they have time to play "pick-up?"

By the time there is any free time, it's spent doing school work. We don't have people who emphasize recreational playing in "pick-up" because everything is so regulated and has to be in "leagues."

OSH;1039399 wrote:I think that no one sees the "pick-up games" because everything is so organized now. There are soooooo many kids in organized sports that their breaks are probably spent not playing "pick-up." Mommy and daddy have to rush around all over the place to get little Jack or Jill from football, soccer, cheerleading, basketball, wrestling, baseball, softball, dance, gymnastics, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, etc. that when do they have time to play "pick-up?"

By the time there is any free time, it's spent doing school work. We don't have people who emphasize recreational playing in "pick-up" because everything is so regulated and has to be in "leagues."

password;1039415 wrote:This is part of the problem when it comes to diet, parents are to busy to even cook dinner for the family, so fast food is their answer. I would think that if kids were that busy participating in sports that they didn't have enough time to go outside and play, they wouldn't be obese. I don't know many 3 sport athletes that are obese, so I will blame it on being lazy and the parents not making their kids go outside and play. If we were in the house during the day my parents would tell us to go outside and play or they could find something for us to do because we were not going to sit in the house all day and do nothing.

justincredible;1039461 wrote:There aren't many things that piss me off more than obese children. If you are a responsible parent there is absolutely zero reason you should have an obese child. Control their diet and make sure they are outside playing more than they're inside playing video games. Do those two things and your kids will most likely be fit and healthy.

It's easy to assume that when you see an obese child that their parent will be a fat ass. I've never seen a fat kid with thin parents.

Mulva;1039469 wrote:I support a person's right to be obese.