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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cheap, quick calories are plentiful in this country.

It takes time and/or money (or advanced planning) to eat right, whereas you can feed your family a drive-thru diet quickly and easily.

Kids don’t really actively play outside anymore. Most of them are on devices.

Also, with regard to HS sports, in a lot of cases, you need to have prior experience to make the HS team. It costs money (and parental time) to get this experience in the younger grades.

Very few people adopt a healthier lifestyle in college.[/quote]

All of this.  When I was growing up (I am 41), there were plenty of kids who took up sports in high school, and played on high school teams.  It was also free - you just had to buy your shoes.

What I have noticed is that young people are not "young" fat, they are "old" fat.  Young fat is just kind of chunky, but firm.  Old fat is droopy, with a huge gut and back fat.  There was no one that looked like that when I grew up.  Now, you see really little kids with old people bodies.  It's hard to come back from that.

I don't know if it is the food or what. I do know that kids go to Starbucks and Chipotle or whatever a lot.  We rarely if ever used to go and get take out, and some of these kids are doing this on an almost daily basis.[/quote]

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