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Our children are becoming fat, obesity in children rates are not in the small numbers you might think, it is a serious growing health problem which we have a responsibility to fix. This is not about a simple weight problem which can be solved by sending the kids out to play. Child obesity has reached numbers that nobody would have foreseen even a decade ago. Sadly, it is our own fault, the adults the parents the teachers anyone who has an influence over what children eat.

Already in 1995, the combined figures for overweight and obese children aged 12- 15 years, was 26.1% of boys and 18.9% of girls. That is close to fifteen years ago and most people speculate that the number of overweight children today is very close to the adult figures which have now reached more than 60%. There is a lot of talk about children needing more activity and more exercise but there is a far bigger problem to overcome and it is not outdoors, it is in the home.

Children are getting fat because their parents are getting fat. Parents are feeding their children what they believe is a healthy diet. They give them foods that are advertised as healthy and they follow the advice they see on TV. Until the parents learn the facts about what is happening to their diet they will continue to pass on their misinformation to their children, who will in turn pass it on to their children. It would serve you well to realize that the advice you get about diets, usually comes from vested interests.
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