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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just this morning in the Metro, I observed a tourist family of 5, parents and 3 kids.  And, except for the baby in the arm, all 4 were on the obese side of the scale.  The two, what looks like an elementary aged kids, were finishing up a 7up bottle. 
It may be a special occasion and the parents allowed it, but in my household, we never drink soda.  Its water or tea (unsweetened). 
I was thinking, obese really starts from that young age?  Pumping so much sugar from that soda cannot be healthy to the kids....
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People ate pretty unhealthy back then too. I had a sugar cereal for breakfast, kool aid multiple times a day, hostess snack in my lunch and usually a dessert after dinner -- root beer floats were my favorite. And I was always skinny and still am. my theory is a combo of:

1. Hormones and antibiotics in our food supply is messing up our gut bacteria.

2.  More sedentary. I used to play outside running around or on my bike from when I got home around 3:30 to dinner time.

3.  More processed meals and eating out.

4. Larger portion sizes.

Btw - we don't buy soda  now but I do let my kids have it at a restaurant occasionally. I think making it forbidden fruit is worse. I have family members who were not allowed any sweets as kids that started hoarding and hiding junk food and are now overweight. [/quote]

Tourist families also come here from all over the country and from areas where a sedentary lifestyle 24/7 is common.

1. Sitting on a porch and chatting with neighbors - COMMON.
2. Driving 30 minutes to Walmart or to pick up groceries - COMMON.
3. Picking up fast food like Wendys on the way home after school - COMMON.
4. Sitting on the bleachers at ball games, IF YOU'RE KIDS EVEN PLAY. - COMMON.
5. Going to work and sitting - COMMON.
6. Staying at home and watching Ellen - COMMON.

D.C. and New York and places like it are probably the most intensive amount of exercise (re: walking) they get all year.  Meanwhile I walk 4-5 miles a day just because, walk to groceries and gym, walk to pick-up dry cleaning.

It's a choice but its not easy. At all. [/quote]

:roll: WOW it's so hard and you deserve a medal for being so much better than those porch-sittin', Ellen-watchin' country folk![/quote]

Hey, I grew up with those country folk! All of my aunts are at least 80 pounds overweight. They lunch on fried chicken and the only place they walk is to their mailbox. Even the local park is a 20-minute drive away.

You think it was easy to change my mindset? To be healthier? NEWSFLASH it wasn't. [/quote]

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