How can childhood obesity be prevented?
With busy schedules and tempting junk food, it's easy to let children eat too much or eat the wrong thing! If you want to cut down on childhood obesity, give one of these a try. 1. Don't reward children with food. Find other ways to celebrate good behavior. Instead of taking your child out for a scoop of icecream after getting a good grade, how about letting him / her choose out an inexpensive toy or allow him / her to decide on a fun outing such as camping or rollerskating. 2. Practice what you preach. If you're practicing healthy habits, it's a lot easier to convince children to do the same. Incorporate healthy activities into the time you spend with children. Take walks, ride bikes, go swimming, garden or just play hide-and-seek outside. Everyone will benefit from the exercise and the time together. 3. Encourage physical activities that children really enjoy. Remember that each child is unique and may have to experiment with many activities until he or she finds one that is enjoyable. Exercise could be joining the soccer team, doing heavy gardening, or going for a daily stroll through the neighborhood. 4. Limit TV, video game and computer time. Help children develop a positive self image. Focus on the positives instead of the negatives. Everyone likes to be praised for a job well done. 5. Be an advocate for healthier children. Insist on good food choices at school cafeterias and vending machines. (How about milk and juice instead of soda; fruit and veggies instead of chips and candy?) Encourage school principals to offer more physical fitness opportunities that kids will actually enjoy.
What is America's obsession with being bone-thin?
I don't necessarily agree. Maybe a lot of women are obsessed with being bone-thin because the media tells them they have to be - but the idea that MEN are obsessed with it, I think is false. The reason that the media portrays thin as good, I think, is because thin people carry clothes better, thin people are more photogenic in print & film, etc. Extra-thin people just look better on TV and photos. There are probably other reasons - most likely involving money, since that's the root of everything in a capitalist environment (not saying it's good or bad, just the truth) - but that's part of it. as far as what men want goes... well sexual attractiveness is to a large degree determined by nature. Men want women with CURVES and this has biological, evolutionary reasons: wider hips on women indicate maturity and the ability to bear children. Being toned (but NOT skinny) is an indication of good health. Healthy breasts (before civilization) would be necessary for feeding babies, etc. The same thing applies to men. A muscular body means that you're stronger and more able to provide for a mate, and will produce stronger, more fit offspring. A more "masculine" look, with a strong jaw line, etc., means more testosterone, more assertive (and even aggressive) tendencies, etc., and these would have been good things for survival. In both sexes, symmetry is a general indicator of good genes. Show almost any man a fit young woman with nice curves and a symmetrical face, and I guarantee the media stereotype will fall flat on its face. Men don't really like anorexic women. corporate america does.
I need three reasons why obsesity is becoming overwhelmingly high among young adults...PLEASE?
* poor eating habits * overeating or binging * lack of exercise (i.e., couch potato kids) * family history of obesity * medical illnesses (endocrine, neurological problems) * medications (steroids, some psychiatric medications) * stressful life events or changes (separations, divorce, moves, deaths, abuse) * family and peer problems * low self-esteem * depression or other emotional problems
Should obese people be put in forced labor camps until they lose weight or die?
i hate fat *** lazy spoiled people too but some are really nice people and dont deserve to be treated as slaves but i mean shiz i get where your comming from fat people are a sickening plague on the u.s.a
Who is responsible for America's obesity problem?
It is a combination of personal choice, responsibility, government policy, evil corporations, greed, and our own success as a society. Personal choice is obvious. If you choose to eat bad, over indulge, and be lazy then you are likely contributing to obesity. Government because they decided to subsidize a bunch of crops that are used to produce many unhealthy things like corn oil which is in everything. You have to go far out of your way to even eat healthy and when you do you find out that real healthy food is more expensive and harder to find. There are so many lies about food floating around its hard to tell what actually is good for you. There were a string of ads saying high fructose corn syrup was basically sugar and not bad for you. Sugar is mostly glucose and while its not good for you, its OK if you indulge on occasion. High fructose corn syrup is mostly fructose corn oil as the name suggests and is unusable by our bodies. Therefore it is either expelled as waste or stored as fat. This stuff is in everything, especially soda and is the number one reason I'm dropping 90% of my soda consumption. Not only that, its PROMOTED by our government through crop subsidies. Lastly, our society's success because things are not as hard as they were 100 years ago. We have cars in every driveway, grocery stores on every corner, power scooters, motor toys for kids, video games and TV, power tools, and many other modern conveniences that make our lives easier, and by proxy, our bodies fatter. We just don't have to work as hard as we used to. In the past if you wanted to eat well you worked fields, you hunted, you worked a hard job to provide for your family. Now most of us sit behind a desk all day, walk 5 feet to our cars, go home order a pizza on the internet, and watch TV until we pass out... and we wonder why we're fat...
Would you agree that your parents' generation was much fitter than your own? Why, or why not?
In order to answer this question we must first answer the question of what is meant by the word‘fit’. I consider fit as being active physically and eating healthily.My parents are boomers. My dad talks about his childhood and playing in the creek, making his own toys and generally being active outside. When I was a kid I played outside; often helping my dad in the garden, climbing trees, riding my bike, etc. I also loved barbies and had a relationship with the tv which has developed into a dependency on my phone. ( I feel like all living generations also have this issue as my parents are now retired and glued to their phones) I have a niece and nephew through marriage. My nephew cries if the tv is not on and boss baby or peppa pig playing. He is almost 2. My niece is almost 4 and also watches a ton of television. As far as I know they don’t do much in terms of activity though I’m sure this will change as they grow older.My parents generation ate butter, lard, shortening, bacon, white bread, white rice, white pasta and white potatoes as they grew up but had smaller portion sizes than today. (an average dinner plate was 9″ and now they are 11–12″) [1] I ate highly processed convenience foods like kid cuisine, potato chips, mac and cheese, spaghettios, dunkaroos, fruit by the foot, etc while growing up. Today I feel like parents are trying harder to feed their children balanced meals that don’t have white flour, starches, tons of fat or sugar. (at least that’s how my friends feed their kids)______________________________________________________________________________________We can also look at statistics for our answer instead of just voicing our opinions.In 1960 only 13.4% of adult Americans had a BMI of 30 or higher (Obese)In 1990 23.2% of adult Americans were considered obeseJust 10 years later the number rose to 31.3%[2]There aren’t any records of childhood obesity before 1963 however “In 1980, 7 percent of children ages 6 to 11 were obese; in 2012, the rate was nearly 18 percent.”[3]This is largely due to the fact that convenience foods became popular, restaurant portion sizes grew and people ate fewer home cooked meals.To answer the questions simply, yes, they were more active and ate less than we do today.Footnotes[1] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&...[2] U.S. Adult Obesity Rates Since 1960 by matthewgreen111 - Infogram[3] How Much Have Obesity Rates Risen Since 1950?
My daughter is neither pretty nor intelligent. She is overweight, has extremely bad grades and has no skills or interests besides watching TV, gossiping and shopping. How can I help her?
In general, if any father I knew asked me this question this way, I'd say the best way they could help would be to leave. If she has self-esteem problems it's almost certainly in part because you've failed to tell her about the positive "reality" about herself, or expose her to the right kind of peer group. Turning around then and telling her the negative "reality" is not just bad parenting. It's downright abusive. Nobody benefits by having such a toxic person in their life.But let's assume for now that leaving is not an option (e.g. single parent). There are three things you need to do.Accept that she's a different person than you. Maybe the "brutal honesty" approach would work for you but not for her. Maybe her pursuits all seem trivial to you.; maybe yours seem that way to her as well. Figure out what she responds to, and accept what makes her happy, so you combine the two and get her from where she is now to where she'll be happier.Stop enabling or encouraging bad behavior - i.e. that which does not lead to long-term happiness for either of you, not just that of which you disapprove. Teach her the lesson of earning and striving for what she wants, instead of getting it by nagging or guilt-tripping or other forms of manipulation.Find and reinforce her positive qualities. Cristina Hartmann makes an excellent point about kindness. I'll add that intelligence is not the same as curiosity and wonder. I've known some very lazy and unhappy smart people, plus a few who were truly limited but were delightful to be around because they made the absolute most of what they had. She clearly has some interests, a trivial as you might consider them. Even a trivial interest can be turned into a fulfilling hobby or social opportunity - even a career. Usually the difference is between mere consumption and participation or creation, even if the commodity involved (e.g. entertainment or clothes) doesn't change.Make sure you compliment and encourage your daughter on the things she does manage to achieve, turn them in a positive direction, help her develop new skills, and make sure she's around other people who can do likewise. If you have a child, that's your #1 job before anything else.