Childhood Obesity
- Desperation for the substanceThe problems associated with obesity in children enormously. There is an enormous burden on health care, while retired military leaders of a serious threat to national security have warned, because many young people are unfit to win.
There are many suggestions as to what to do. We all know by heart. Eat right. Exercise. What else is there? The military people hit a revised lunch in the school, citing that children who have put junk food in school the pounds. I agree that nutritious, healthy food is best.
The revised plan appears to lunch at school like a good sense, but the cause of obesity can be addressed through school food? When I was sloppy with the elementary school in the 1970s, our 40-cent lunch consisted of Joes, pizza, spaghetti, fried fish sticks or cheeseburger with fries and not much else that could be called healthy. Most of us dumped the soggy side of vegetables and went outside to get to the ice box to our 10-cent ice cream sandwich or a fudge bar. We were not obese. None of us.
What then is different now? For starters, we did not provide us junk food vending machines in schools. We were physically active must run, jump, jump, jump, climb and at regular intervals by the daily physical education and recess. After school, many of us walked or rode our bikes home. Then we played outside. We were running around, jumping rope, created things, riding bikes, using our imagination, skate boarded climbed run up trees and walls, scooters, and set up the boys sports games on the road. We were on the road.
There were plenty of snacks and sugary treats, but food was not the focus, as it seems today. We went to school in the morning after breakfast and many of us had dinner cooked in the evening. The microwave was not a fixture in every kitchen. Drag through the neighborhood about 5:00 am after the smell of home cooking. For a short time, children would disappear from the streets and then, light and weather permitting, they would back out again to play a bit more before dark.
We had TV, but no electronic games for it yet. There were no computers or computer games, so there was less reason to stay indoors and settle down. Unless one of the seven television programs, of which three were black and white, we talked. If you live in a house like mine were, no complaints of boredom were quickly resolved with the assignment of a term paper.
Even with all the changes in lifestyle, obesity, why a national crisis today? We know many modern snacks are chemicals that we want "can only have one more." It is well known that our preference for "fat free" items have only served to give us fatter. Finally, the human body needs fat. Real, full-of-fat-butter, which ate many of our ancestors, mothers and grandmothers, with no obesity crisis.
This focus on life-is valid, but I think the core of the problem is: the American soul was drained. It sank and ran out of the air as we ran our busy lives. Authentic human interaction is now a one-to-one relationship with the computer, the value of free, unscheduled time is limited lost, and soul nourishing home-cooked meals were replaced by fast food. The fantasy died while sitting for hours watching television. Add sent the mind numbing diet of tragic news and images from around the world in over 500 TV channels and the computer. Whose soul would not be desperate for material?
For food, we turn to the first basic human need: food. We eat to fill the emptiness, loneliness and lack of nagging sense weaving through our lives. But, we know not to fill up. So we eat some more. We are empty. So we eat some more. Currently empty. Most do not know which needs filling. It is not the stomach in this land of plenty. Food can not feed all that has been lost.
If a child is overweight or if you are struggling with children deal with this problem, the soul of the child with the things that have always filled the souls of the children being nursed. The freedom in unstructured time, human interaction and friendship play that encourage imagination, the physical and mental activity, home cooking, love. With these, you may notice a decreasing need to bridge the gap by eating too quiet. The best way to do this is for every child, do it for you. After all, you are the role model, how to influence for each child, you live.
- Desperation for the substanceThe problems associated with obesity in children enormously. There is an enormous burden on health care, while retired military leaders of a serious threat to national security have warned, because many young people are unfit to win.
There are many suggestions as to what to do. We all know by heart. Eat right. Exercise. What else is there? The military people hit a revised lunch in the school, citing that children who have put junk food in school the pounds. I agree that nutritious, healthy food is best.
The revised plan appears to lunch at school like a good sense, but the cause of obesity can be addressed through school food? When I was sloppy with the elementary school in the 1970s, our 40-cent lunch consisted of Joes, pizza, spaghetti, fried fish sticks or cheeseburger with fries and not much else that could be called healthy. Most of us dumped the soggy side of vegetables and went outside to get to the ice box to our 10-cent ice cream sandwich or a fudge bar. We were not obese. None of us.
What then is different now? For starters, we did not provide us junk food vending machines in schools. We were physically active must run, jump, jump, jump, climb and at regular intervals by the daily physical education and recess. After school, many of us walked or rode our bikes home. Then we played outside. We were running around, jumping rope, created things, riding bikes, using our imagination, skate boarded climbed run up trees and walls, scooters, and set up the boys sports games on the road. We were on the road.
There were plenty of snacks and sugary treats, but food was not the focus, as it seems today. We went to school in the morning after breakfast and many of us had dinner cooked in the evening. The microwave was not a fixture in every kitchen. Drag through the neighborhood about 5:00 am after the smell of home cooking. For a short time, children would disappear from the streets and then, light and weather permitting, they would back out again to play a bit more before dark.
We had TV, but no electronic games for it yet. There were no computers or computer games, so there was less reason to stay indoors and settle down. Unless one of the seven television programs, of which three were black and white, we talked. If you live in a house like mine were, no complaints of boredom were quickly resolved with the assignment of a term paper.
Even with all the changes in lifestyle, obesity, why a national crisis today? We know many modern snacks are chemicals that we want "can only have one more." It is well known that our preference for "fat free" items have only served to give us fatter. Finally, the human body needs fat. Real, full-of-fat-butter, which ate many of our ancestors, mothers and grandmothers, with no obesity crisis.
This focus on life-is valid, but I think the core of the problem is: the American soul was drained. It sank and ran out of the air as we ran our busy lives. Authentic human interaction is now a one-to-one relationship with the computer, the value of free, unscheduled time is limited lost, and soul nourishing home-cooked meals were replaced by fast food. The fantasy died while sitting for hours watching television. Add sent the mind numbing diet of tragic news and images from around the world in over 500 TV channels and the computer. Whose soul would not be desperate for material?
For food, we turn to the first basic human need: food. We eat to fill the emptiness, loneliness and lack of nagging sense weaving through our lives. But, we know not to fill up. So we eat some more. We are empty. So we eat some more. Currently empty. Most do not know which needs filling. It is not the stomach in this land of plenty. Food can not feed all that has been lost.
If a child is overweight or if you are struggling with children deal with this problem, the soul of the child with the things that have always filled the souls of the children being nursed. The freedom in unstructured time, human interaction and friendship play that encourage imagination, the physical and mental activity, home cooking, love. With these, you may notice a decreasing need to bridge the gap by eating too quiet. The best way to do this is for every child, do it for you. After all, you are the role model, how to influence for each child, you live.
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