Posts Tagged ‘childhood obesity’

Childhood obesity is taking away the future of both the parents and child. Should obese children’s parents have their children removed from the home, or should the food companies CEO go to jail. I’ll leave this challenge to the public. Our government is reckless with our health and funds. They have spend millions to research shrimp on a treadmill, a salamander crossing in Vermont and 3.4 million to build a tunnel near Tallahassee so turtles could crawl under a Highway and 1.5 million for a robot to fold clothes. It took the robot 25 minutes to fold one towel.

Why do I bring that up?  I don’t trust a government for solutions to a problem. The obesity of our children is a systemic problem that is a cultural challenge. The destiny of the next generation should not be in the government’s hands. We don’t belong in a police state. If they want to safe the children’s life, than come up with a plan that doesn’t mask a symptom of today’s lifestyles.

The Obesity Problem

The obesity problem in the young isn’t just putting a child in a high-risk environment, it’s about creating the environment. The parents are themselves many times the victim of the environment.  What’s going around is an incomprehensible corporate profit plan, that is making us sick. By identifying the culprits which are the food sweeteners, artificial flavors and colors, along with a denatured food supply we may know who is at fault.

Removing Children From the Family

Should we take children out of home that are said to have ADHD or are hyperactive. Why not the parents are feeding them. Medical experts say that parents can prevent extreme obesity. The answer is yes if they don’t mind moving to another country.

How To Handle the Problem

Most parents haven’t even had a beginner’s guide to how to handle the food supply. They can’t make informed decisions for many reasons. They are not involved in the engineering of the food. They are preoccupied with trying to make ends meet. They are an undeserved group that now may have personalized intervention, children taken away from them. Blending in to society may become easier as the CEO’s of major food manufacturing plants expand their product line. In that case there will be too many obese children to deal with.

What they did in the military is cut out the sit ups for the overweight soldiers and offer them yoga exercises instead. We should do something productive for the obese children of today. Compassion and caring can mean taking the food commercials off the airway that cater to children, We can offer the parents courses on food preparation, and send in nutritionally trained cooks, with the fruits, vegetables and good quality protein for healthy meals.

Where would we get the money? It would come from selling off the shrimp treadmills, retiring the towel folding robots, and sell the tunnel to a group that wants to see the turtles cross the road. Better yet, fine the CEO’s of the companies enough to cover the costs.

Childhood Obesity is going to become a dominant force and have an impact on health care. There are children as young as ten are doing what teens and adults do in the insane world of weight loss, which is making themselves vomit. This is now becoming a tool for managing weight and eating. With vomiting becoming a tool for weight management we are a culture who lost our way. This is more common among boys than girls, according to a study of nearly 16,000 school children according to a study published by the Journal of Clinical Nursing.

These findings have prompted to issue a warning that self-induced vomiting is an early sign that children could develop eating disorders and psychological problems, such as binge eating and anorexia. They also think that this problem can be tackled by making sure that children get enough sleep, eat breakfast every day, eat less fried food and night-time snacks and spend less time on the computer.

This isn’t a holistic solution. As long as we think Pepsi refreshes, and packaged faux food is fuel for the body then we aren’t going be able to stop the damage. We as a nation have to improve the food supply or childhood obesity will be the number one health concern on the planet.

 A study of 120 schools, carried out for Taiwan’s Ministry of Education found that 16% or the boys made themselves sick, compared with 10% of the girls. America’s food manufacturing is big business and it is reaching foreign soil. When the dust settles we will see a world that depends on fast convenient food. Obesity is becoming a growing problem in industrialized countries, and has just about tripled over the last three decades.

“For example, a study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published in 2010, found that 4% of students had vomited or taken laxatives in the last 30 days to lose or stop gaining weight. And a South Australian study published in 2008 said that eating disorders had doubled in the last decade.”

The Taiwan study found that 18% of the underweight children used vomiting as a weight-loss strategy, compared with 17% of obese children and 14% of overweight children. Normal weight children were least likely to vomit (12%).

When the researchers carried out an odds ratio analysis, they found that using a computer screen for more than two hours a day increased the vomiting risk by 55%, eating fried food every day by 110% and having nighttime snacks every day by 51%. They also found that children were less likely to make themselves sick if they slept more than eight hours a night and ate breakfast every day. These sollutions will stop childhood obesity from becoming a world wide plague.

Chefsters is the new kid on the block literally.

Chefsters

Chefsters is a show based on teaching children in an entertaining manner about healthy food choices and food preparation.

Childhood Lives Here

Everything about Chefsters has the child in mind. From the entertainment aspect, to the cooking tools and safety features of the kitchen set up. This is a show that teaches children about healthy choices, and how to navigate the kitchen.

Every parent should realize this is a dream come true, engaging children to take part in the preparing of meals. Any participation a child has in family life is both bonding and rewarding to both parent and child. This sets up your children with a long-term relationship with food that nourish their body and soul.

Mission

The mission is to engage children in the preparing and choosing of their food.

This show is unmatched in its ability to engage, teach, and entertain.

We can’t afford to wait it out; we have to be here now for this generation. There is a fork in the road and the path we follow will determine the future of our children’s health and the world’s health.

The Chefters is practical guidance without any diet ideology; it teaches a better choice from the food supply that is available. The best part it gets the kids up to speed on what is available in the market place, and what each food supplies.

In a world of required school courses there has to be room for practical learning that serves kids well in the real world.

Here is a preview video, with some of the delightful characters that will teach, entertain and enthrall children of all ages.