Posted on 10/24/2011 7:37:49 AM PDT by SanFranDan
Obese children as young as 11 whose size is endangering their health are to be given gastric balloons on the NHS in a drastic attempt to make them lose weight.
The device, which has the same effect as a gastric band by reducing the amount of food that can be held in the stomach, is to be used as a ‘last resort’ in a ground-breaking trial.
Up to 15 severely obese children and teenagers with weight-related diabetes or complications such as constructive sleep apnoea – where their neck fat stops them breathing as they sleep – will be offered the gastric balloon.
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Now, he points out that this is just a theory that he has and that he has no actual evidence to back it up; but, it sure rang true to me. These kids are now born without a prayer of escaping obesity, if they are continued to be fed on the same heavy carb diet that their mothers are eating.
These kids seem to have a problem, both medically as well as being raised by poor parents. These kids are 100% dependant upon their parents for every meal, every snack, every desert.
Gastric surgery is only attacking the symptom, the problem appears to be a parent who apparently enjoys placing their children in a set of circumstances in which their weight is completely out of control. I’ve been fighting my weight my entire life; but while I was growing up, my parents took an active role in monitoring my food intake, and making certain that my chores were strenuous enough to keep me trim.
I have to wonder how much of this obesity comes from having to keep kids inside because of all the demented criminals running around that snatch up kids and kill them. So they have to keep their kids smothered inside and avoid the loonies that are allowed to run around the streets.
“I have to wonder how much of this obesity comes from having to keep kids inside because of all the demented criminals running around that snatch up kids and kill them”
There are plenty of organized outside activities to keep kids healthy in a safe environment. The problem is STILL non- parenting by those who don’t give a crap about the babies they keep spitting out with no daddy in the picture.
When I was in grade school, PE was manditory. We played Dodge Ball, had Basketball drills, ran laps, played touch football - we were drilled and drilled - until we were nearly exhausted.
Then we hit the showers (also manditory) and had maybe an hour of ‘Study Hall’ before we boarded the buses and were sent home. The Study Hall was quiet, because exhausted kids are content to sit and do homework. Bottom line: most of us completed our homework before we got on the school bus, those who didn’t had ample opportunity to complete the homework on the school bus - or possibly an hour or so when we got home.
End result? Students who were physically ‘in shape’, educated (illiteracy was ‘unheard of’), SAT scores were higher, and discipline wasn’t an issue. Care to compare graduation rates in the 50-80’s to now?
Why has this changed? Because parents have made the decision to have their children ‘Opt Out’ of Physical Education, to spend their time playing or socializing. The kids then go home where they spend time playing video games. Parents have opted to be their child’s “BFF” instead of their parent, and in doing so have given the kid whatever the kids want for dinner - without a thought to nutritional needs.
This isn’t “normal”; most (and my most I do mean 90+%) children in their adoloscent years are within the ‘norms’ for their weight - if they are allowed to play, exercise and ‘be kids’. Look at the USA for examples, up through the early 1980’s. Fat youngsters has gone from being a rarity to commonplace in the past 20 years.
I agree with your assessment, Hodar. However, may I add one thing. When I was a child, most women were stay at home Moms. They cooked more healthy simply because they had the time to do so. Over the years, taxes greatly increased making it more difficult for a family to keep their head above water on the husband’s paycheck alone. Thus, women entered the work force (some by choice and some by simple economics). I know a lot of Moms who have to work full time. By the time they get home, very little time is left to make something healthy and they rely heavily on processed/frozen/fast food ect... The meals are much less healthy, more fatty and sodium filled. The women I know aren’t lazy at all. It is simply a time issue... many stay up till close to midnight doing laundry, cleaning, etc... only to wait for the alarm to buzz at six a.m.
You are absolutely correct.
In the 50-60’s a family could easily tax-shelter 60-80% of their income; and it was practical for a family to comfortably live on the husband’s income.
Today, about the only tax-shelter we have is the house; plus there is the unavoidable fact that job security is non-existant when compared to even the 1950-2000 range. When the breadwinner is “out-sourced”, or “right-sized”, or the company fails, moves or is sold - the loss of income takes years to recover from. There is really no choice anymore; both parents are ‘forced’ to work just to diversify incomes such that if one is laid off for any reason, the family has a secondary means of support.
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