So Many Fat Young Kids around !!!

[Dave7]

Recently I can't help but notice there are so many fat young kids around. My wife and a friend were saying the same thing last week.
There is even a holiday advert at the moment were a guy is with his 2 young sons on the beach (I guess 7 & 9 years old) and they are FAT!!!
My thoughts/observations are...........
Some of these kids are only 8-12 years old and TBH look as though it is just too late for them.........they are massively obese.
I get the impression (I'm not a doctor) that the very young ones i.e. 5-8 years old are not just way over-weight.......they are massively tall and look BIG BONED as though over eating at such a young age will over-feed the bones etc. Again it looks like no way back for many of them.
Scary really.

 

[screenman]

Puppy fat may be the word you are looking for, your area is full of slim people compared with over here.

 

[Wafer]

They've been looking at that kind of thing for about 10 years now
http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB19109

 

[Dave7]

Puppy fat may be the word you are looking for, your area is full of slim people compared with over here.

No............really.........FAT is the word.
When I were no' buralad no one (apart from babies) had puppy fat. I accept it is part of life today. But I am talking seriously fat kids.

 

[TVC]

Talking of adverts, I noticed that one of the online bingo sites had a number of 'ordinary people' having fun enjoying gambling. Everyone was above the national average size (14ish for women I believe). If adverts are supposed to be partly aspirational I wonder who they are targeting.

 

[Markymark]

To be fair they've probably put on weight since they stopped smoking.

 

[Over The Hill]

As a kid (I am 56) we did not have kids food, we ate the same as adults but had a smaller amount. Now kids seem to have their own food all the time and live on chicken nuggets shaped like animals. The reality is that the kids food is generally packed full of fat and sugar and rather cheap rubbish.
On Friday we went to the sweet shop and bought a couple of sweets for the weekend. Now kids seem to finish every meal with a chocolate bar.
And I used to ride my bike to school!

 

[screenman]

Our kids are fatter than your kids

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[gavroche]

Get rid of McDonald and KFC, that will help in reducing obesity in youngsters .......and many adults too. Also Coca Cola, it is full of sugar.

 

[swee'pea99]

To be fair they've probably put on weight since they stopped smoking.

And that's probably true for the women as well as the kids.

 

[booze and cake]

Fat kids do indeed tend to be round, but its not nice calling them names, I think terms like 'gifted descender', and 'built like a sprinter' are acceptable though.

When I was in high school in the 80's, in my class of 30 there was only 1 fat kid, he was the butchers son. He was a popular lad with lots of friends, but on reflection maybe they were'nt his friends but were simply trapped in hs gravitational field.

I worked in public health a few years ago for Westminster NHS and when I was there 40% of kids who started school, aged 5 were overweight or obese. 40%. I was amazed how things were so out of hand so early, almost like after they were born babies were shut away in a dark room for years on a lard drip.

I used to think fat camp was a demographic including the likes of Christopher Biggins and Russell Grant, it appears its now an aspiratoinal holiday the yoof of today are working hard towards.

 

[Dave 123]

Yes there are fat kids, but skinny isn't necessarily healthy either. There needs to be a balance. People need to be encouraged from an early age to participate.

As a kid I would ride or walk the 3 miles each way to/from school. We would play football before lessons, 2 breaks and lunch. I either played badminton or football 2-3 nights a week after lessons. Then I'd go home for tea, then go out and play 2 hours of football or play badminton every night of the week. On a weekend it would be football, bikes, tennis etc..... I was a kid who loved playing sport and being active, and I've carried that all through my life.

The question is-

How do you encourage people (child or adult) that aren't turned on by exercise that getting off your arse is THE best thing that a person can do for physical and mental well being?

Without the big stick approach, is this possible?

 

[Tanis8472]

Our kids are fatter than your kids

Child obesity is never far from the news. In fact, at the end of April, figures suggested child obesity rates in Lincolnshire were among the worst in the country.

ADVERTISING

Latest figures reveal the percentage of Lincolnshire's reception and year six pupils, who are classed as obese, are higher than both the statistics for England and the East Midlands.

Twenty per cent of year six Lincolnshire children were classed as obese in the latest figures.

That is compared with 18 per cent for England and 17 per cent for the East Midlands.


Read more: http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/D...tory-21055242-detail/story.html#ixzz42QKlgJrA
Follow us: @LincsEcho on Twitter | LincsEcho on Facebook

Maye its the fertilizers they use around here

 

[Jaykun85]

i was one of the last generation (80s kid here) of kids that got thrown outside in the morning if the weather was nice and told to go play with my friends till the sun goes down .. with a bite of food in-between. We played cricket with the lamppost in the cup - de -sac as the wicked ... Kerby... football. Hide and seek. or just anything that would keep us occupied.
Not too many fat kids where about back then from what i remember.

Now you can do all that on a video game sat in your room, eating fast food and drinking litres of liquid sugar.

Maybe this has something to do with it as well. Parents too scared to let there children go out and actually see what daylight it, rather keep them in the house infant of a TV pumping them full of food that isn't good for them. So not all the kids fault as it will be th parents who are buying these things for the children to eat.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I opened the curtains at 8.30 this morning. What was the first thing i saw? A fatboy walking (slowly) to the school around the corner,slurping a can of Tango! Tango for breakfast...such a good upbringing(!)