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[quote=Anonymous]Less physical activity. Youth sports are not the answer. Kids in the 50s-80s weren’t participating in travel baseball and soccer. But they were out riding bikes, walking, and just playing pickup ball with their friends and neighbors. But because of safety concerns - not just stranger abductions, those are very rare - kids don’t really do all that anymore. Parents are concerned about traffic/pedestrian accidents, and kids having CPS called on them for being out away from home. And people complain about “noise,” so parks and playgrounds get shut down - plus also, the parks budget is an easy thing to cut when budgets have to be balanced, AND with the very imminent “demographic cliff”/recession baby bust, there will be even less demand for kid friendly recreation in the near future.

Also too many restaurant meals and meals out. I’m an older Millennial and meals out and even fast food were treats for us. Younger people now get the apps for everything and it’s soooo incredibly easy to mis-judge how many calories you’re consuming when 500+ a day comes from sugary coffee drinks and energy drinks. Portion sizes are huge these days. A regular sized fast food drink was a large in the 80s. In the 70s an adult would go to McDonalds and get a regular cheeseburger and a medium fry (which is the same as a small these days) and maybe a 12 oz soda and that was a good meal. But that’s what the kids meals are today. [/quote]

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