Children of Overweight Adults Will Likely Be Overweight Themselves

It makes perfect sense that children of overweightthat families today drink sugary soft drinks for family
adults have a much higher likelihood that they will bedinners instead of alternatives like milk or plain water.
overweight themselves. Because children areThis type of diet is sure to pack on the pounds to
dependent on their parents to feed them, if they arethe parents and children of a family who eats in this
not fed a healthy nutritious diet they are likely tomanner. Also, once children become accustomed to
suffer the same problems of being overweight oreating fast food they will hound their parents for this
obese, as do their parents.type of food on a regular basis. Fast food is addictive
It is a real tragedy that the rate of obesity in thisand purposefully made so by the commercial
country has skyrocketed in the last 30 years. Andrestaurants that sell this food to make a profit.
what is more tragic is that children have no say inUntil parents begin to take responsibility for the level
whether or not they are put on the path to obesityof obesity that they are experiencing and thus
because of the foods they are fed by their parents.passing on to their children, this plague will continue to
The average American diet consists of way tooexist. With obesity comes untold numbers of health
much junk food today.problems that are becoming an epic proportion of the
Often parents who are overburdened by workingchronic medical conditions that exist in this country
two jobs simply cannot find the time to cook mealstoday. Parents must find a way to feed themselves
at home and often bring fast food home for familyand their family healthy meals or else they and their
meals. Often these meals include fried foods that arechildren will suffer the consequences of obesity.
crammed with calories, fat and salt. Also it is common