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In reply to the discussion: kids are diebetic and obese?..I wonder why [View all]KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)24. Increased use of antibiotics, increase in poverty, and general malnutrition
Exercise won't fix these causes. Running 13 miles, half a marathon, would burn roughly the amount of calories in one pint of Ben & Jerrys which can be consumed in 10 minutes or less. Exercise makes you hungrier.
Better solution is to make more nutrient dense foods available which satiate the body's hunger for the nutrients found whole foods.
Antibiotic use in infancy linked to increase in childhood obesity:
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29409087
We should all work to make better options available and stop blaming those who suffer for doing their best with their situation.
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Also the all about fear parents who watch cable and will not let their kids out to play
lunasun
Oct 2014
#5
Amen. We moved two years ago to the neighborhood our kid's school is in and love it
joeglow3
Oct 2014
#29
I don't mean to be a downer but being in a nice neighborhood can be deceiving.
liberal_at_heart
Oct 2014
#46
Nope, sorry -- the OP saw fat kids on a bus. That never happened when he was little.
Brickbat
Oct 2014
#9
The AUTHORS of the study never made the cherry picked assertion that was in that headline.
KurtNYC
Oct 2014
#31
A Music teacher? One of my favorite people. I had some wonderful music teachers when I was young.
BlueJazz
Oct 2014
#37
You take one study, with a fairly small increase in concern, and then make a claim...
HuckleB
Oct 2014
#26
Journal of Pediatrics, Oct 2014 - University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital
KurtNYC
Oct 2014
#33
You try to claim cherry picking above, even though it doesn't make sense, and then you do it here.
HuckleB
Oct 2014
#49
Brainwash nation that has been brainwashed to obesity and brainwashed into thinking it is acceptable
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#27
I live just around the corner from my kid's bus stop and I pick him up.
liberal_at_heart
Oct 2014
#32
bullshit. both boys, no fat kids in their sphere. not saying there are not fat kids.
seabeyond
Oct 2014
#51