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Loading...On the Frontlines of Childhood Obesity (video)
- Nicole, selected from Parent Earth
- November 23, 2011
- 10:03 am
- 24 comments
Please do NOT watch this video with young children.
As a pediatrician, Dr. Lisa Thornton sees first-hand the shocking health effects of childhood obesity. Obesity is the flip side of hunger and helping food-insecure families is a challenge. Food policy like the Farm Bill can play a big role in the solution. Please share this important video with friends and if you would like a free DVD Screening Kit to host a screening, you can order one for free till we run out!
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+ add your ownThanks for the article.
noted
It's up to all of us to encourage healthy lifestyles and take action.
It certainly is a sad situation when cheap food is more fattening than healthy food.
Ad for McDonalds Happy Meal ins the sidebar... sigh.
The most shocking thing is that so many of these children have fat parents thinking I guess it is alright for them to follow in their over crowded shoes.
Thanks! Its not just the farm bill, but its the parents, teachers, schools, grocers, etc. Everyone in society has a responsibility to encourage and lead healthier lifestyle choices. If schools continue to serve junk and sell junk in vending machines, then, what do we expect? If parents serve junk at home, what do we expect? If the community does nothing to make more positive changes, what do we expect? If they continue to cut physical education programs and feed them junk, we're basically setting them up for failure healthwise. We need to make a shift in attitudes towards the type of lifestlye we really want to lead and follow through here in North America, otherwise, we'll continue to gain weight.
Keeping our diets and our children's diets as natural as possible is key. Eating foods that are easily and quickly digested is important. Food companies are loading their products with artificial ingredients and intentionally adding addictive ingredients. Why is our government allowing this? Because they have their finger in the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical pie. There is a lot of money to be made when lots of people are unhealthy.
Very informative video. Thank you! Hope as many parents as possible are able to view this. We need to protect the children as best we can. They are depending and trusting the adults to guide them to adulthood.
noted.
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