Parents Are To Blame For Obese Children

By on August 24, 2013

My next post will explain why I know children are not the picky eaters parents make them out to be. Excuses are a sign of weakness. Either you control your body or it will control you. Color, gender, environment, and financial status are not the culprit. My mother was proof after my father passed. She was left with 6 children (ages 14 and under), and never had to work a day prior to becoming a widow at the young age of 34. Not only did she get a job, she provided healthy meals from scratch (before handing the baton over to me). From middle school on, I cooked for the 3 remaining siblings at home. You can make something out of almost nothing. We did – we had to!

To think income dictates how well you eat or are, is a misconception, and borderline ignorance. Some of the poorest countries grow their own food. It’s not only less money out of pocket, it’s healthier. Cutting back on animal products alone is an easy way to save money. Not even animals eat as much meat as humans do, and their stomachs are wired to digest it.

Giving your child fast, processed, addicting FrankenFood should not be a green light to eat poorly yourselves. Who’s in charge? Craving what nature intended is so easy to achieve, it’s ridiculous! If you’re finding this hard to believe then consider the definition of insanity… doing the same thing and expecting different results. If eating healthy is not easy for you and your family, then start reading, watching, and doing more health related things. Sitting around watching reality type stuff, reading nonsense, or playing violent video games would  make even ME reach for comfort food, as if I were snacking at a movie theatre. Keeping myself in learning mode excites me – it also keeps me on my toes in eating healthy most hours of the day and days of the week! That, and my regular detox. We crave what’s in our blood – get that clean and the cravings go away!

According to this documentary, 2 out of 3 americans are overweight, by 2020 that number will rise to 3 out of 4. Not to sound cold hearted, but I do not buy the tears of parents who are now seeing their child suffer. It is not the fault of the child, it is poor planning and laziness of the parent.

Most of the real food in a supermarket can be found along the outer four walls of the store. The rest is mostly man-made, with a price tag that includes packaging.

 “All of this goes back to congress, and if you want to do something about public health in America, what you really  need to do is change election campaign laws, so that corporations aren’t paying for congressional elections. That’s the source of corruption in American government.”  ~Fault Lines: Fast Food, Fat Profits: Obesity In America documentary~

This 2010, 25 minute, short and to the point documentary is worth your time. Consider watching, as if your life depended on it. It talks about how the USDA (in a roundabout way) has been a supporter for a Pizza Hut commercial. This video can be eye-opening, especially for parents of schoolchildren. Also mentioend in documentary is how hip hop heals – KUDOS to the neurologist who founded the organization. If grades are poor and/or children are hyper, their school lunch may be partly to blame. Even colds and flu can be a thing of the past by eating real food. It’s only a matter of time that more and more parents will outlive their all too often times obese children. This, is not love.

“The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.”  ~Michelle Obama~

It’s not a treat (or fun) if you’re having it daily. It is addicting and fattening (to say the least).

 

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