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Sorry. I posted my response before seeing your post above. I do agree with you that access to education and opportunities for exercise is a contributing factor.
Just because someone is poor it doesn't mean they are impoverished. Fat doesn't come from undereating. If you cant eat..you wont get fat. Processed filler foods were created to help people through the depression...People abused it and got fat on it.
I really wouldn't count l.a. as you don't know how many wanna-be young actors are dieting.
But it really does boil down too if you can afford to fatten up, you are just not really that poor.
You may not have money like other people...But you are not starving.
Come to my area of Tampa which is middle class to wealthy and it will blow your mind all of the fat kids you see. I am nosy when I am grocery shopping and I see the junk that the parents put in their cart and these people are in no way poor or even close. It's disgusting that people care so little about their kids that they are willing to let them have life long health issues. I will say there may be a blessing in that fat kids probably don't get picked on as much anymore since they are becoming the majority.
I just hate that mentality that because they're kids, they can eat whatever they want. Even though kids with better metabolisms won't get fatter, they'll eventually get something like diabetes or cancer in their early adulthood because the body can only take so much of that crap. I see that now with some of the guys I grew up with. They were the better built athletes, and all those cheesesteaks, sodas and chip diets have caught up with them. Failed kidneys and diabetes and they are just hitting 30.
My mom instilled in us that we needed to eat veggies and less fast food even as kids because you are building a foundation for a healthier adult life. Some of my sibs have instilled that into their kids, but not all. While nobody's guaranteed perfect health, I'm not going to voluntarily reduce my chances. That way of life has to start when you are a young child or it will hurt you in the years to come.
We can sit here and discuss for days the correlation between someones financial status and their weight, but the fact that I see it with my own eyes in children speaks much louder than "sitting around a pond" just hypothesizing about it. I see that children in poorer areas ARE INDEED much more overweight/obese than kids in more affluent areas, I SEE IT.
As a junior high school teacher, I do as well.....everyday I see it. Being unhealthy and overweight doesn't descriminate by gender or socioeconmic status.......that's just totally absured.........
I just hate that mentality that because they're kids, they can eat whatever they want. Even though kids with better metabolisms won't get fatter, they'll eventually get something like diabetes or cancer in their early adulthood because the body can only take so much of that crap. I see that now with some of the guys I grew up with. They were the better built athletes, and all those cheesesteaks, sodas and chip diets have caught up with them. Failed kidneys and diabetes and they are just hitting 30.
My mom instilled in us that we needed to eat veggies and less fast food even as kids because you are building a foundation for a healthier adult life. Some of my sibs have instilled that into their kids, but not all. While nobody's guaranteed perfect health, I'm not going to voluntarily reduce my chances. That way of life has to start when you are a young child or it will hurt you in the years to come.
I see this everyday as a teacher. I have had countless students who have told me they have things such as chocolate cake, hot Cheetos, chips, soda, and ice cream for dinner. I have also had students whose parents take them to McDonald's several times a week. Even though, they are kids, I am seeing the health effects of their poor diet. I teach kindergarten and one of my students already received a letter from the school nurse saying he had high blood pressure. I also have many students who complain about being really tired all the time because of all the junk food they ate last night.
I live in Sweden and as a swede whenever obesity is discussed the US is described as the nightmare scenario where a huge percentage of people, young-middle age are fat. Is this really the case?
I live in Sweden and as a swede whenever obesity is discussed the US is described as the nightmare scenario where a huge percentage of people, young-middle age are fat. Is this really the case?
I see this everyday as a teacher. I have had countless students who have told me they have things such as chocolate cake, hot Cheetos, chips, soda, and ice cream for dinner. I have also had students whose parents take them to McDonald's several times a week. Even though, they are kids, I am seeing the health effects of their poor diet. I teach kindergarten and one of my students already received a letter from the school nurse saying he had high blood pressure. I also have many students who complain about being really tired all the time because of all the junk food they ate last night.
Now that's sad! Something has to be done. It's a huge problem.
1 in 3 americans is obese. its not a poverty thing. its an american thing.
OMG!
In sweden it's like 1 in 10 and I thought that was high...
Well about this whole obesity because of being poor/rich...
Both my parents are obese and I'm not, during my second year in highschool I noticed I was getting a bit "puffy", so I changed my workout habits...now that I decide what I eat I've also changed that...
Wholegrain ftw...
It's really an atitude thing. If someone is too lazy to work out or change what they eat, they deserve to be fat. It's a bit different when it's a fat kid, then it's on the parents, but when a person is old enough to decide what to do with his/her free time, and above all when it's time to decide for him/herself what to cook, then there is no excuses. Here in sweden (and I guess in america too) noone who doesn't live on the streets is too poor to eat healthy and get a gymcard at one of the cheaper places, even if they're on welfare.
You get in the shape you deserve, suck it up or get fat...
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