It's hard for people to recognize obesity anymore. My older kids are on a swim team and I'm used to seeing a bunch of very fit kids working out 2 hours a day. One day this summer I took them to a public pool just to cool off and I was shocked at how many really fat kids were there. My kids looked like they hadn't been fed in a month. But any other parent could look around and they'd see their kids looked just like all the others.
I remember growing up in the 70's/80's that each year in school there was maybe one heavy kid in class that got referred to as "the fat kid". Now, half the kids in my son's classes look like the one kid we'd have called fat. I don't know what the problem is, but it really is becoming an epidemic. I mean we had soda, we had video games and tv too. Something else is in the mix.
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