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[quote=Anonymous]Ok 9:50. In my opinion, the best thing the government can do to curb childhood obesity and improve overall health of children is to make it safe enough that parents are not terrified to let their kids play outside unsupervised.

When I grew up, we had one fat kid in out class and on chubby kid, out of 34 students.  Every kid I knew spent all waking, non school hours outside, biking, climbing trees, playing tag, ball, skateboarding, etc without a grown up in sight.  We had to be called in to eat, and then it was outside again as quickly as possible.

We have been fortunate to live on a few military bases, where the kids are able to have this type of freedom.  Not a fat kid anywhere. And before you say it is because the military families are super healthy, they are not. We eat as much food on the go, junk and quick processed meals as the next person, but the kids spend all their time playing outside.  In our current civilian neighborhood, the kids play outside constantly, and they are all fit.  We have lived in other civilian neighborhoods where you see the minvan pull into the garage, the door shuts, and you hardly see or hear a kid for days.  Guess what, there are chubby and fat kids in those neighborhoods.

Kids playing outside are having fun, exercising, burning calories.  They are too busy having fun to spend the day grazing and snacking, and they are more willing to eat good foods because they are HUNGRY when they do eat.

I see it with my own kids. When the weather is bad and they are spending all day doing inside activities they want to snack more and eat more junk than when they are running around outside.

So I say the govt needs to make outside a safe place for kids to run free, lock up pedaphiles for life after one offense, keep the loiterers off the streets and step up patrols in rough neighborhoods so that poor kids can safely play outside too.

I also advocate doing a better job teaching nutrition in public schools and creating yummier, healthier school lunches.

These things will make a difference, where this joke of a soda tax will not.[/quote]

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