Obama Addresses Childhood Obesity

Try ASKING the kids. People! We're human too!

1.) Teach us how to eat right, make friends to keep us preoccupied, get us into different games that are FUN!!

2.) Yeah. Eating right is great. But, for some reason, we hate brocolli and veggies and fruits and stuff like that (I used to ^^)

3.) GET INVOLVED WITH YOUR FAMILY!!! Yep. Definite help Factor.

4.) I was 189 pounds. Very depressed. Now, I'm 157 pounds. A few simple things. Just pay attention to them. Point: MAKE LIFE FUN!!!

he was so high.... and without teleprompter... the perfect storm for Husein.... and childhood obesity will not be solved by a 20 minute gym class. how about we try eat less exercise more... sounds like a job for the parents to me

Part 2 of the solution is for adults to eat this healthy way as well. Adults lead by example. An alcoholic parent is not the only bad example for children growing up. A parent eating fast food is bad too! Trust me- I know cuz that was my experience!

the way 2 solve this crisis is simple. Teach kids at a young age, mabey 5 or 6, about food, eating habbits and what happens when ur fat or obese nd when u r healthy. This generation cant be helped, so we must act NOW for the next. There will still be obese/Fat kids and parents, but we can dramatically decrease the number. Having a tax or taking away children is wron (thts my opinion).In teenage girls, i think its alright 2 be chubby. Chubby and fat r not the same thing btw.

Healthy eating programs are great, and I am all for them. But most parents won't follow a plan with their kids if there isn't a palpable consequence for failure. That is where my suggestion comes in. Consequences that can have an IMMEDIATE effect on their childs future will impel the parent to action. The problem here isnt a lack of knowledge. Almost everybody, unless they have been living under a rock, knows that obesity is a problem with severe ramifications. The problem here is motivation.

And i went into the grocery store last week and as i was walking down the aisle i saw a 300 pound woman with her very severly overweight daughter standing right beside her. they didnt have a cart, but the mom was holding a box of doughnuts in her hand and they were headed for the register. kids learn bad habits from their PARENTS. and even if the child does want to lose weight it's not a matter of being lazy. it's a matter of not having family support or the knowledge of how to eat healthfully.