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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Compare the Sidwell lunch menu to your local public and you have your answer. Add in food deserts, too.[/quote]

I work in a Title 1 school and see what they serve the kids for free breakfast, lunch, and snack. All microwaved processed foods like hot dogs, cheesy pretzels, chocolate milk, nachos with cheese dip, etc.[/quote]

This is what they offer to ALL kids at ALL public schools now.  [/quote]

The food is definitely terrible, but the parents contribute to make it even worse. I was giving my kids a small pack of goldfish and a banana for snack. Their friends are almost uniformly bringing skittles, pockies, gummy bears, and other bullsh*t so I'm constantly getting told how I'm such a strict parent. I pointed out that like half the kids in their school are fat and they rebut with "not in our class" (they are in the AAP class where somehow the kids eat garbage for snack and are still thin). My response is that their friends will have diabetes soon after college. It's so unfortunate what we are doing to our kids in America. I went to school in Germany as a kid and the food there is actually like a home-cooked meal with actual food groups compared to what we get in the US.[/quote]

You know, I’m not sure that I buy this narrative.  
They have done twin studies with genetically identical twins growing up in different households, and their BMI’s are pretty much the same when they get to adulthood.  You actually can’t say this for very many other things that we tend to think of as genetic disorders, like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

I don’t know what’s going on at a population level, but I don’t think that you can blame this all on individual parents and their snack choices.[/quote]

Genetics don’t make you fat, but genetics can play a large role in your appetite and how your brain signals you’ve had enough food.  In other words, some people are pre-disposed to over eating.  And in the US where cheap garbage food is pretty much limitless and takes nearly zero effort to get- disaster.  BUT this can be over come with lifestyle changes and making a conscious effort to eat (perhaps a lot) less than maybe what you want to eat.  But that is hard to do, as a result, people end up overweight by default [/quote]

So, you are saying that children’s satiety signals are messed up due to genetics, and because they have limitless access to garbage food, this is what’s making them overweight?

So, your answer is to, what?  Put children on a calorie restricted diet from birth?  Even if that makes them very uncomfortable?

Frankly, your solution sounds abusive and like a much bigger disaster than a bunch of size 16 ladies walking around.  Also, you have absolutely zero evidence that putting children on a calorie restricted diet makes them physically healthier as adults.  [/quote]

The answer is stop giving kids garbage food at home AND at school.  IF they are going to be eating something high in calories/low in nutrients, it shouldn't be limitless.  Children absolutely need to learn early on which foods they can eat as much as they want of and which foods you have on occasion and stick with a set portion.  [/quote]

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