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Childhood obesity: Who should be responsible for fighting it?
I just got a petition in my email to help end childhood obesity, but I thought: it's NOT really the schools' problems, nor even the government's, when advertisers bombard kids with sugar-coated ads and parents do NOTHING to stop them from gorging on sweets and fatty snacks!
Shouldn't we have a petition to educate PARENTS, or the main caregivers on how to teach kids to eat correctly? It's pretty hard for a kid to say no to sweets or fats when they watch their parents gorging on all kids of junk food, overeating and having huge glut-fests, such as during the Superbowl and on Thanksgiving!
IMO, kids have enough to worry about in this world without being entirely blamed for eating the wrong thing!
7 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
we should ban sugary sweets and fast food restaurants
- lewittgal12Lv 41 decade ago
It's definitely the parents' responsibility. We expect parents to care for the child's wellbeing after all, and childhood obesity can set the child up for lifelong health problems, so it's definitely a wellbeing issue. Parents need to monitor what their children eat and ensure they're getting enough exercise. Children will be children, eating what they think is nice. They need parents to at least guide them.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I don't believe that school,the government or even companies that advertise are to blame.
Parents are.If you feed your kids crap, they will start to eventually look and feel like crap.There really is no way around this.Everyone wants to play the blame game.In this case, whoever buys the groceries is to blame.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
well when i was growing up my parents cooked healthy meals and encouraged me to make friends so I was always out playing. I do believe it is up to the parents because a child really wont care what he eats as long as it tastes good.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
What would be the point of that parents know how to feed their kids healthy food they just choose not to. Its not about education.
The parents are responsible- forgot to add that in there and what i said about the pointless part is having the parents go to a meeting.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
it is the parents fault but also when kids are old enough to start attending school they provide lunches to the kids and where i live its not a healthy lunch at all.
