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Originally Posted by erco
It's really awesome to hear that your kids are doing so well. Gives me hope for the new generation of whipper-snappers! I only wished my parents knew as much as I know now about nutrition. Like many KK and Xtrainer, I was a physically active chubby kid. Granted, I was never 180 at 12 years old, I was closer to 150, but I was by no means slim. I can easily blame my relative "overweightedness" to poor eating habits. My mother had a major sweet-tooth and so I ended up eating like her, lots of refined sugar and snacks. I remember days where I'd eat full on frosted cake or poundcake for breakfast.
Thinking back, there are a lot of subtle changes one can make in their diet that'd make a huge impact on his quality of life. If everyone in the US ate whole wheat products, stopped drinking soda, and just ate 10% less, would we still have the same problem with obesity and diabetes?
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Oh, I so TOTALLY agree. My daughter went to a friends house for her birthday. They have one skinny daughter and one obese daughter. The fatter girl is 12 and weighs about 230, so we're talking WAY OBESE. The girl ate half a pizza and a couple of pieces of cake while my daughter was there--but get this--she would only eat the frosting off the cake. The mom regularly goes off about how "being skinny isn't everything" and I want to apply a RNC until she taps and promises to stop killing her kids.
And yet, what are all the news stories about? Anorexic and bulemic girls. It takes two seconds in a mall to look around and see that "too skinny" is NOT the major health problem.
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