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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's also car culture and not letting kids run around. I've talked to adults who won't want to walk half a mile.[/quote]

I disagree. You can’t outrun a bad diet.

It takes a LOT of running or exercise to burn 500 calories but less than a couple minutes to consume 500+ calories with the readily available, high carb, high sugar, low nutrient dense foods we have everywhere. It’s much easier to fix the diet. We need to stop feeding children low fat high sugar high carb foods leaving them hungry all day. They fill up on junk and are hungry again 30 mins later because the food they eat is not filling. Like why do schools give children skim or 1% milk? Whole milk is maybe 30 extra calories per serving but it has more fat to satiate you. I’m not sure how many calories a typical school lunch has these days but I’d be willing to bet it’s pretty high with very few healthy sources of fat/protein. [/quote]

Kids also don’t know the difference between hungry vs. dehydrated or just bored. And the parents don’t teach them - they just hand them a packaged snack. [/quote]

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