Obesity Shocker! Kids Are Getting Fatter Watching TV

You are likely to disagree but I did some pretty extensive research into obesity and it’s causes and found out one common factor to explain obesity in kids and adults the TV.

I discovered that very few families only around 10% sit down for a family meal every day which was about what I suspected. But what I found more shocking was 40% of people never sit at eat at a table ever!

I expect you can work out why? It’s because of TV and to illustrate my point I’d like to give you a couple of scenarios.

1. If you have a young child you put them in front of the TV to play or watch DVD’s but rather than disturb their viewing to eat you give them their food whilst sat in front of the TV. But you need to give them easy to eat finger food so they don’t need any thing to eat it with or spill any. This usually consists of things like chips, fries, burgers or hot dogs or shaped chicken nuggets. Or if it’s cold food jelly or peanut butter sandwiches are most peoples choice.

This is great food for you to prepare as it takes minutes and no effort, but it’s lousy food for your child it’s packed full of fats, carbs, salt and other hamful chemicals and chemical additives all bad for your child’s health now and in the future.

Then to make matters worse it’s normally followed by a soda (which is like giving your kid chemically flavored sugar to drink). Then finished off with cookies packed full of even more fats and carbs. If this is how you feed your young ones and most people do you should STOP NOW! This junk is setting your kid up for obesity and other serious health problems.

2. You arrive home late from work and sit in the kitchen with your eyes glued to the TV and you sit down with a Pizza or instant ready meal or maybe you’ll phone out for take away. You sit watching the TV whilst eating your meal barely noticing what you are eating as you watch the ball game, the latest episode of CSI or the news.

I doubt by the time you have finished eating you even know what it was you had for the meal and certainly wasn’t focused on what you were eating.

Now I want you to try this method if you can. Get your children to sit at a table without the TV and cook food which not only looks good and taste delicious but is also good for you and your kids.

As soon as you start to think more about what you are eating rather than ‘who dunnit’ it in CSI or whether your team will make the playoffs . You’ll find you eat less and enjoy what you eat much more. When you actually learn to taste food you’ll know you’ve been eating junk and start to think more about what’s going in your mouth.

 

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