A new study adds to evidence that severe obesity is becoming more common in young U.S. children. There was some hope that children in a government food program might be bucking a trend in obesity rates.
It’s a failure of our education systems, financial systems, stagnant wages, and city/suburb design for sure.
But it’s also on the parents. It’s so easy to cook rice and broccoli and beans, or stick some chicken in the oven, or throw salads together, that laziness isn’t much of an excuse, especially when it comes to the health of your child. You do you, but as a parent, your child needs to come first and those bad eating habits follow them for life and eventually impact their kids too.
When you’re fat, you have a personal problem. When a large percent of your population is fat, you have a social problem. It’s super easy to say, “All these fat people need to eat better and exercise more” but it’s harder to look for answers to… Why aren’t these people eating better and exercising more?
It’s a failure of our education systems, financial systems, stagnant wages, and city/suburb design for sure.
But it’s also on the parents. It’s so easy to cook rice and broccoli and beans, or stick some chicken in the oven, or throw salads together, that laziness isn’t much of an excuse, especially when it comes to the health of your child. You do you, but as a parent, your child needs to come first and those bad eating habits follow them for life and eventually impact their kids too.
When you’re fat, you have a personal problem. When a large percent of your population is fat, you have a social problem. It’s super easy to say, “All these fat people need to eat better and exercise more” but it’s harder to look for answers to… Why aren’t these people eating better and exercising more?