Segment 3 of 4 from Dan Lier‘s episode Raising Champions from this TV show YOUR TRUE POTENTIAL. America’s Coach Dan Lier shares his views on discipline and nutrition in the home.
Childhood Obesity Statistics
In 2004, there was a research report written about a study that lasted from 1999 to 2002 entitled “Prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents: United States” conducted by the CDC. According to that report “16 % children (over 9 million) 6-19 year olds are overweight or obese” this is three times what it was in 1980. In addition, this report brings out the fact that also during this same time period an additional 15% were “at risk of becoming overweight”.
Not only has this number tripled, but in the past three decades (according to this same study) obesity has “more than doubled” in both children and adolescents from ages 2-5 and also ages 12-19 while more than tripling in children between the ages of 6-11.
Not only is it what we have been feeding our kids and what they have demanded at times, but it is also the lack of exercise, not only in the schools, but also after school at home. You know the scenario, you’re sitting with your friend when her kids come home and they begin to fight over it. They are yelling and screaming, demanding that it is their turn to use whatever mechanical device may have just rolled off the shelves at the nearest store. These devices range from DVD players, to video games, to the latest video or other fantastic toy that has become number one on the ratings list.
We ourselves are at fault for what is happening to our children. Some of them are too young to even know better, so it is up to us to watch what our children are eating and how much exercise they are getting.
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