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[quote=Anonymous]It’s everything. Kids aren’t as physically active as they once were. A typical kid now gets driven to before care, then school, then after care, then home for dinner and homework and then it’s dark so they just sit inside all the time. Not a lot of opportunities to just ride a bike or walk/run around outside with friends. An hour or two a week of rec sports practice doesn’t really stack up the same way.

The portion sizes are huge and there is a ton of snacking. I’m not necessarily going to blame the food itself because Gen X and older Millennials were definitely eating white bread sandwiches and sugary cereals and Kool Aid and stuff. But a lot fewer people are regularly cooking at home now and so families get a lot of takeout and fast food and portion sizes have gone crazy at restaurants. An adult size meal at McDonalds in the 70s was a regular cheeseburger - the kind they put in the kids meals nowadays! And a medium fries, which seemed to be a little smaller than the medium today and about a 12 oz drink. And now we’re all getting sugary Starbucks drinks all the time and large fries with everything. Food and snacks were just overall less “available” 40+ years ago and people didn’t constantly graze between meals.

And a lot of psych meds are known to cause weight gain. There are greater numbers of kids and adults with ADHD and anxiety and depression and the meds used to treat these conditions often cause weight gain, sometimes a lot in a short period of time. [/quote]

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