When it comes to kids, it's just not hard to get them healthy. I don't find it hard and don't understand why people find it hard.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
Nutrition isn't the only problem; our children also aren't getting enough exercise.
Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.
Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own.
I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.
I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.
Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.
As a parent, I know how difficult it can be to encourage your kids to eat well.