Childhood Obesity Article

What started Childhood Obesity?

In the forties, during and just after the war, people were eating less and were generally fitter. It was also down to some physical education preventing childhood obesity. It does seem that since the arrival of television and fast foods the regime of British, European and American children has dramatially changed. Without compulsory games and a changed diet children will continue to become overweight or obese.
Is childhood obesity the parents' fault? It has been too easy for busy parents to wave aside a little effort of cooking fresh food while a quick microwave prepacked lunch or fast food hamburger and chips remains the ideal alternative, but at the cost of your children's health and fitness. The effort required to provide a healthy cooked meal is not so great if you prepare enough to last a few days or save some in the freezer for another day. With a new fresh enthusiasm for choosing a rich variety of recipes and a little effort your children will benefit and may become used to a whole range of different dishes with exciting new tastes.

For more recent information on childhood obesity contact TOAST , The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust.

The Dangerously Big Bunny
Available from DangerSpot Books
Publication date: 7th July 2006. ISBN 0-9546565-7-1
Supporting the TOAST obesity awareness programme.
Harey, the hare-brained rabbit, watches TV all day and eats all the wrong foods. He becomes unhealthy and overweight. He has trouble getting through doorways, too overweight to play on the swings, breaks his skateboard, and sinks the boat in the park. He can't stop eating the wrong foods.
His doctor puts him on a diet. He cuts down on eating biscuits, sweets, chocolate toffee bars, cakes and ice-cream, joins a gym and watches less television. He is soon back to his old fit self.
'Who's a pretty boy, then?' says his friend, Pillow the parrot.