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Originally posted by Lilith Depends on the crowd really. Obesity here is catching up to the rest of the world though, unlike the US and UK they have been pushing the diet and exercise education a lot more in the media. Which will minimise the damage people do too themselves to some extent. In its own way, these things have a way of fixing themselves over time. It's called premature death.

There is a lot of diet and exercise education in the UK at the moment, if people take notice then that's brilliant.

A lot of different theories are being thrown about in this thread, each are agreeable to a certain degree. But my take on the major rise of obese kids is this.

It all starts in the home. Some children have lazy parents. They don't cook their kids decent meals a trip to McDonalds will be suffice. If fast foods not an option they cook up some microwave meal or put some burgers and chips in the oven. It's plain idleness.

Many parents fail to encourage their kids to excercise they let them sit on the computer and watch tv for literally whole day. What happened to taking them on some massive walk or getting out the football for a kick around.

Then you have the parent's attitude these are the typical things parents of obese kids will say. I won't force my kid's to eat food they don't want - bollocks they're too lazy to sit there and make their kids eat properly. We're all large in this family - Your just getting over your guilt for passing on your shitty eating habits onto your kids. I didn't like doing PE at school so I'll write a sick note for my children - Way to go turning them into little podgy hypochondriacs.

The only time anyone should be obese is on the grounds of medical reasons.

Or they could always do the Aussie diet Lilth, a couple of tinnies a meat pie and some Aussie rules.



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