The childhood obesity epidemic has become shocking

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Did sorantable eat the rest of your post?

Deep Fried Big Macs.

As someone who had a little bit of an obesity problem going into my freshman year of High School I wouldn't fully just blame the parents there was a lot of things I could have chosen not to eat but I still did. I weighed 250 pounds going into freshman year of high school and I had to chose for myself that I was going to lose the weight which thanks to the help of TXHS football I drooped my weight all the way down 180. The kids have to chose for themselves as well not just the parents that they aren't going to eat extremely unhealthy.

I disagree. We had a home cooked dinner and healthy breakfast 7 days a week when I was growing up. Meat from our family farm and veggies from the garden. I know not everyone has access to family grown produce, but my mom still would have made the same stuff using store bought items.

If you don't ever give your kids the chance to eat junk food they won't do it. Once they can drive it's up to them, but they're at your mercy until 16, hopefully by that time they'll keep it up without your insisting.

The food industry, particuarly those heavily invested in the sale of processed sugars, definitely carry part of the blame. They use marketing ploys specifically designed to pray upon the general ignkrance of what it means to eat healthy in America. Many with good health intentions are being sold bullshite. The food industry had the US government block an international report on the dangers of sugars back in the early 2000s, and are the reason why today daily sugar allotments dont appear on food labels.

That being said, more blame lies on the parents. Many dont even fricking try.

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Lazy parents

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Wrong

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bull shite

what you put in your gullet is 100% your responsibility.

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Bad food is subsidized.

Healthy food requires financial hoops to jump through.

Big agra produces shite.

The average meal travels something like 1500 miles.

The majority of food options are bad. Even the ones marketed as healthy.

The market is flooded, beyond flooded with bad.

What 95% of people think of as 'food' is actually not food.

I'm too tired to make a coherent response to put you through the wood-chipper.

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bull shite

what you put in your gullet is 100% your responsibility.

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Past a certain age. Up to that point if you've got parents who are feeding you (and themselves) nothing but processed foods lacking real nutrients and letting you drink soda's(sugar and high fructose corn syrup) like they're water than you've already got the odds stacked against you. In the south, it's more socially acceptable to be overweight than it is in in almost any other region of the country. I say that having lived in several. A lot of these kids are growing up in homes with over weight/obese parents and think that's the norm. They end up replicating that process and pass it down to their children.

I remember the first time stepping off the plane in Atlanta after living in Europe for several years and being shocked at how over weight and unhealthy we are as a country. You always hear people say that, but until you witness it first hand I don't think you can truly comprehend the problem. In most places in Europe you can spot the over weight person in the office/public trans fairly easy because, simply put, there aren't many. In America we have the exact opposite. The healthier and more fit people end up standing out in crowds because there seems to be a lot less of us. At least in East TN.

Obviously the severity of the problem is really going to be more noticeable in certain areas of the country over others.

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Healthy food requires financial hoops to jump through.

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Depends on where you live and the resources avaliable. When I broke it down, I spend quite a bit less shopping at the farmer's market/stand and cooking at home versus fast food or junk food. Largely because I can fix a batch of say vegetable soup that once I freeze can be used a ton of different ways later (i.e. sauce bases, quick to hear soup later, lunch the next day).

And at least here, a lot of urban areas are pushing community gardens and bringing in local produce for inner-city markets.

Shop the outside lanes and read labels. That should be a good enough start for anyone trying to manage weight.

Oh those evil corporations, how dare they try to make money and sell products. They're tricking everyone into thinking those diet cokes are healthy!

If you sit at a table and drink 12 diet cokes and truly believe that's healthy, you're too dumb to live. These people with no impulse control eat mcdonalds every day and thn turn around and bitch they can't get healthy food. That's total bullshite. Processed foods are way more expensive than fresh. We started cooking scratch meals every day and it's been cheaper than when we ate out all the time; and it takes very little time. Both my wife and I work, have a baby, and we still cook almost every night.

If you want to make the argument that adults can't be trusted with the responsibility to feed themselves, then these same adults shouldn't be allowed the vote, because that is way more responsibility.