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It a known fact that America is the fattest nation, besides that why do you think Americas kids are obese?
20 Answers
- ValleyVioletLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
Prior to personal computers, and video games, you could not keep kids inside. Kids used to play games like, tag, hide and seek, two square and four square. Plus, eating used to take away from play time...now eating is play time. While varsity sports are well supported and funded, physical education and activities for kids who are not athletic in middle and high school has declined. Because of this, diseases that were basically unheard of in kids are cropping up all over the country. It is frightening to see kids being diagnosed with hypertension and type II diabetes.
- 1 decade ago
because there is so much fast food and today's parents are working around the clock...its just easy to stop and get happy meals rather than cook a meal at home. kids are learning that it is "normal" to eat 4 or 5 fast food meals per week. lack of education to both parents and children...even though word of this epidemic is everywhere and millions are buying books about it...im willing to bet 95% of those books end up on the back of toilets collecting dust.
- 1 decade ago
McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC, Coca-Cola, Pepsi. All American favorites and probabaly the reason why the average American is overweight..
- ferrieLv 44 years ago
Eugh that series is undesirable! I were given so aggravated observing it! 0.5 ton mom is purely as undesirable! Yeah she had a sob tale, and likewise a baby that she could were searching after fairly than stuffing her face and forcing the youngster to look after herself! i imagine u.s. are really a fat us of a, purely look on the sizes of garments they promote on u.s. clothing, i can make a house contained in the jumpers they promote lol! on the different hand they were the first to flow length 0 so i wager it is going from one severe to the different! Pooky - i realized that too about the biscuits! What are they?! lol
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- 1 decade ago
We're trendsetters. Kids are overweight because none of them play outside anymore. Poor kids are skinny because their parents cannot fork out the $5000 for the PS3 so they're outside playing.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
as well as beeing the fattest nation it is also known as the "fast food nation" that should answere the question just look at the crap they put in their bodys!!
- 1 decade ago
Hey, I bet some of the people here are kids....well one thing is for sure, many of you kids are getting fat by sitting in front of your computers too!
Enough said, I'm going to the gym!
- 1 decade ago
American parents feed their babies to shut them up, which kicks off bad eating habits. There is too much fast food available to kids today, so they don't eat as healthy as they could, and should.
- roy40372Lv 61 decade ago
why do you think? too many buttons to sit on the couch and push while drinking soda and eat potato chips. they never get out and ride a bike of play ball all day like we use to do.
- 1 decade ago
Too much fast food; not enough acutal physical activity, too large portions; parents too busy to actually take time with their kids to to keep them quite they shove food at them