Yeah sure when your a kid – or at least when I was a kid – sugary cereals were the norm BUT we also played outside, down the street, at the park and in the neighbors yard. Today its let me sit on my rear, text, game, IM or what have you – and that is why excess weight is rising on the youth of America (and elsewhere actually but let’s focus here at home).
Not to get on a little rant here but when government statistics reveal that the rate of overweight 6-11 year old kids has risen from 4% to 19% in the last 30 years, I have to ask: do we need even more sugary cereals?
Sure I realize this is on some level very similar to the gun and who pulls the trigger – no one is forcing this stuff down a kids throat…..but then again, if its all that is provided to them and they are not encouraged to be active…..well you can see what could happen:
July 24, 2008 at 5:43 pm
But now we know that you can do something while you sit on your ass; save animals! I guess that I should have included “save the whales” in my promise to Animal Planet! I’ll go promise to do that now.