Changing Our Children's Eating Habits by plzchuckle ..... Barefooters' Library
Date: 12/12/2013 7:15:48 AM ( 11 years ago ago)
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Obesity in children has been a growing problem for some time now. The surprising issue isn't obesity itself, but rather the lack of any real solution for the problem. It isn't for lack of trying either. Did you know that over $1 billion dollars a year is spent on government nutrition education programs? With this amount of money being spent, you'd like to feel secure in knowing that a dent in the obesity rate in children is occurring. However, the opposite seems to be the reality. An Associated Press review of 57 government nutrition education programs found overwhelming failure when viewed against the growing epidemic of childhood obesity. In some cases, the children became even less willing to eat good food by the end of the program. The fact of the matter is, it isn't any one reason. The current solutions being presented to our children are based on the premise that isolated actions will have an effect. When you really look at this approach, you'll realize it's nonsense. What kind of impact can a video of a dancing piece of broccoli have when the vending machine in school sells Snickers and M&M's? The reality is that we need a whole solution approach. Hillary Clinton may not have been so far off when she said, "It takes a village."
How can $1 billion dollars not only produce no positive effect, but possibly be creating a negative effect? It's difficult to say exactly why, but pundits have certainly chimed in with their theories as why the programs have failed. Some of the popular beliefs include:
A real world example of this is the town of Somerville, MA. Professor Christina Economos, a professor at Tufts University, wanted to find out what would happen if the whole community got involved in the war against fat. The result? A town where kids opt for healthy options before fattening ones. The entire community came together and made changes on all fronts including repainting crosswalks and hiring more crossing guards to encourage more walkers, replacing unhealthy options in school cafeterias with healthier ones and asking restaurants to serve healthy portion options.
The changes this town made can serve as a great model for your own family. A thought to mull over from Economos: "I think people are starting to understand that to affect health, it's not just individual education and behavior change, it's creating healthy environments." What can you do create a healthy environment in your home or town?
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