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Kids need exercise too!

I remember once seeing a Jerry Springer show where fat kids that eat more than large adults were featured. One kid was so big that he could hardly move. I was sorry for the kid and angry at the parents for just giving them all the junk available. To me this is a form of abuse. What do you think?

From Deseret News:

GET MOVING: EXERCISE IS KEY TO KIDS' OVERALL FITNESS
Shanna Nava believes she's changing students' lives. The physical-education
specialist teaches students at Horizon Elementary in Murray jump-rope routines,
frisbee golf and broom hockey.
https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C...28880%2C00.html

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[quote]I remember once seeing a Jerry Springer show where fat kids that eat more than large adults were featured. One kid was so big that he could hardly move. I was sorry for the kid and angry at the parents for just giving them all the junk available. To me this is a form of abuse. What do you think?


That is very sad.  I thought all kids liked to move and exercise.  Yes I think it is a form of abuse.  A parent may think that they are helping their child or showing love when they are really hurting them.  

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Most parents of those kids are also obese and I think they're medicating themselves with food. What makes me angry is when I saw another TV show about it and a mother even though the doctor told her to stop feeding her son in that way because he's in danger of a heart attack because of his weight, she refused to put him on a diet! is she mad? the kid can die and she doesn't seem to care enough. :

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Part of the problem as I see it, is the fact that many parents themselves see food as a comfort food, and therefore see this over eating of their kids food as a kindness, as many emotions are wrapped up in their obsession of food.

It's very sad that the parents probably have lots of health problems themselves, and yet they are still inflicting the same on their own children.

There was also a programme on tv where they sent some of these obese children onto a 'fitness camp', and to start off with they asked each child what foods they ate on a typical week, then piled all the collective foods on to the table--the sight was horrendous, and quite a few of the kids used this as a focus to change their lifestyles, cut down on the food, and a healthy fitness regime was incorporated.

The end result was tremendous, and watching the follow up to this, about 80% of the kids changed their complete life style permanently and kept up with the fitness and exercise, a couple of the parents even started to change the way they led their lives also!