Unbelievable: No Wonder Today's Kids Are Obese And Unhealthy  

That is scarey! I thought video games were going to do this to America's kids. They would forget or never see the basic things that make America great. It is truly sad and I would be interested in seeing this show myself. My grandson who is seven years old would know that those on the vine are. Sad. We don't make all the healthy choices all of the time but not all the worst ones possible either. Hope you enjoy your show.

The kids who are 12 and under and obese or morbidly obese are almost always that way because of their parents. I've seen a lot of shows about this. One mother was constantly serving extremely unhealthy foods to her child, who was three years old and over 70 pounds. She said she fed him what he wanted because she wanted him to be happy. That is one of the most moronic statements I've ever heard.

I don't understand some parents. If my sons' school was serving such unhealthy foods, you can bet I'd be protesting! I'd do everything I could to ensure that the children had healthy foods to choose from.

I taught my boys well but, of course, when they were on their own, they'd eat what they wanted. Now that they're both well into their 20s, they've discovered healthy alternatives to what they had been eating and I'm so very happy to see that. My youngest son is on a huge health kick right now. He even reprimands me if I buy something yummy for myself as a treat. I told him that it's okay to cheat every now and then as long as it isn't a frequent thing.

I hope this man is able to make the much needed changes in school foods. I think it's despicable for that school to serve pizza for breakfast! Schools have become not much more than babysitters, giving the kids what they want to passify them until they leave for home.

I'd love to hear that the bad economy is having one good affect on some people: that they're eating less fast food because it costs too much. Sadly, the fast food places are countering that by offering so many things on their dollar menu and, now, some are reducing the prices of their sodas to pull people in.

I just don't understand that mentality. Let's hope it can be changed for the better.

I made healthy choices for my children, and they are adults now. My daughter makes really good choices, my son not so much, but better than a lot of people his age. They definitely know what food looks like when it is fresh, they helped grow it. I am alarmed at the lack of proper nutrition for our kids and the excess junk that is constantly available. I was so poor when my kids were little that I felt compelled to spend my money on the most nutritious choices available. They had whole grain crackers instead of chips and milk or juice not pop. Fruits for sweets mostly. Lots of vegetable varieties. Yogurt. I saw four year olds over 100 lbs, about ten years ago and two year olds at over fifty pounds. We are killing ourselves. I need to go back to some of the basics I followed when my children were young.

I did see that on TV.
I thought it was horrible.
My daughter thought it was horrible.
How can those kids not know what a tomato looks like? I guess you already asked that.
I try to fix as healthy foods as possible. Most of the time anyway.
But, even if it is something like frozen chicken patties, I will always serve vegetables on the side.
My daughter loves her vegetables.
She asks for salad and eats brussel sprouts, which you don't see with many kids.
I see many kids that don't eat anything but processed foods and never vegetables.
When my daughter has somebody stay over, most times I can't get them to eat anything. All they like is junk. One of her friends actually eats real food better, but she isn't the norm.
I wish people would see that the better we take care of our bodies, the less health problems we are likely to have.

i'll tell you pye-i part timed school cafeteria work in a k-5 once..and i have to say,i was absolutely shocked at the difference between what we had in school,and what these kids did.
candy,soda,i mean when did this happen?

i mean,even beyond weight issues,the teachers must have loved sugar-hyper children coming back from lunch wound up.i even asked the teachers why on earth they were being fed this crap.they just shrugged at me.

Teaching in a secondary school I have first hand experience of this problem. In Malta a lot has been done in the elementary school to promote healthy eating habits. A fruit day has been introduced and the government distributes freely fruit and vegetables to school children. In my son's school they have introduced a healthy eating programme than bans sweets from lunch. The teacher sends a not to the parents if the children are given sweets for lunch. I believe that in the secondary section there is a lot to be done. I don't agree with the way the school canteens are conducted in my country. First of all they are leased to the private sector and their intentions is to make maximum profit. This means that their interest is money and not the children's welfare. A healthy eating policy is there but most often it remains on the shelf. Canteens to sell pizza, soda amongst other things.

Hmmm Pye this should be very interesting for the guy is fighting years of a culture that doesn't care or is simply not aware of the damage that obesity does.
In America especially the obesity of children is of great concern..I am so happy to see anything that tries so hard to address this bad problem.
Thanks Pye..I will try to watch it too!

My mom always says we are what we are eating, but I never realize bad eating habit can make you that fat. We are like most Indonesian eating 4 kind of food every time we eat rice, meat/poultry/fish, fruit, vegetable. I can not imagine eating without vegetable or fruit. From your story the kids eating unhealthy food at home and school no wonder they so fat, and its not that kids fault if they became fat, because our eating habit depending on our family.

i'm not surprised anymore as the same thing is happening in australia as well... obesity is a big problem here as well and the government is trying to do their best to fix the problem... i always feel annoyed when i see parents feeding their children with junk food (KFC and Mc Donalds mainly) just for convenient... they don't realise at all the health risk that they are putting their children into until everything is too late... it is just a shame that some parents can be so irresponsible to themselves and their children... take care and have a nice day...

yes that is something to focus by the department of health.also in my country i seen many obese children definitely suffer from diabetes and other diseases.parents must be educate what are healthy or not healthy foods so that at home start healthy way of living.parents are the model that kids to follow they be one to prepare healthy foods to their kids.