| Childhood obesity is escalating at an alarming rate. | | | | parents are turning to more and more medications |
| According to recent reports; children born after the | | | | which can have serious side effects. |
| year 2000 are not expected to outlive their parents! | | | | In the new book Generation XL, Drs. Joseph Mercola |
| Fourteen has become the new forty for these | | | | and Ben Lerner suggest prevention is always easier |
| children, with many researchers are now saying that | | | | than cure; incorporating healthy lifestyle changes to |
| poor nutrition and lack of exercise are more | | | | give your child a realistic way to reach and maintain a |
| dangerous to children than alcohol, drugs and tobacco | | | | healthy weight, dramatically reduce the risk of |
| combined! | | | | developing type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, |
| Profound inactivity and junk-food diets have | | | | and other health risks. |
| essentially created an epidemic. One only has to look | | | | This is an important message in a culture that tends |
| as far as your child's school to see physical education | | | | to gravitate to the next quick fix or fad diet. Taking |
| programs being slowly eroded from the curriculum | | | | a proactive approach to health, instead of waiting |
| and school cafeterias serving what could only be | | | | until you get sick is not a new idea, but definitely one |
| described as sugar-coated, fried, preservatives with a | | | | that has been ignored lately. If the recent obesity |
| large helping of salt. | | | | statistics are any indication of our children's future, |
| Unfortunately, as more and more children begin to | | | | perhaps its time for parents to once again teach their |
| develop chronic illness, pain syndromes, depression | | | | children to value play, become more active and eat |
| and learning disorders, rather than looking at lack of | | | | healthy food. Of course, this can only be taught by |
| nutrition and exercise as the culprits, concerned | | | | example.. |