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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just this morning in the Metro, I observed a tourist family of 5, parents and 3 kids.  And, except for the baby in the arm, all 4 were on the obese side of the scale.  The two, what looks like an elementary aged kids, were finishing up a 7up bottle. 
It may be a special occasion and the parents allowed it, but in my household, we never drink soda.  Its water or tea (unsweetened). 
I was thinking, obese really starts from that young age?  Pumping so much sugar from that soda cannot be healthy to the kids....
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People ate pretty unhealthy back then too. I had a sugar cereal for breakfast, kool aid multiple times a day, hostess snack in my lunch and usually a dessert after dinner -- root beer floats were my favorite. And I was always skinny and still am. my theory is a combo of:

1. Hormones and antibiotics in our food supply is messing up our gut bacteria.

2.  More sedentary. I used to play outside running around or on my bike from when I got home around 3:30 to dinner time.

3.  More processed meals and eating out.

4. Larger portion sizes.

Btw - we don't buy soda  now but I do let my kids have it at a restaurant occasionally. I think making it forbidden fruit is worse. I have family members who were not allowed any sweets as kids that started hoarding and hiding junk food and are now overweight. [/quote]

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