Maybe the babies are pumped up on ‘roids?
Chicago Tribune | Many kids too fat for car seats — I blame the food supply.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — Many young children are too heavy for standard car-safety seats, and manufacturers are starting to make heftier models to accommodate them, according to research on the obesity epidemic’s effect.
Based on national growth charts and the 2000 Census, at least 283,305 children ages 1 to 6 are too heavy for standard safety seats.
Lead author Lara Trifiletti said researchers at a safety center at Johns Hopkins Hospital warn that using inadequate car seats for heavy children could put them at increased risk for injury in a traffic accident.
I love the spurious precision of ‘at least 283,305’.
Will car companies make a special kind of car for this fat kids when they grow into fat adults.
I saw let natural selection take its course.
They already make cars for fat adults. They are called “SUV”s.
Hm… last night I went to breastfeeding class (WITH my pregnant wife) and one of the things mentioned was the problem of the “clean plate club.” Bottle feeding (even of breast milk) stimulates the adult to encourage the baby to finish the bottle which quite likely is too much for the child. The result: overweight babies that might not fit the car seats.
My kid is 4 years old and can eat as much as I can at a sitting–when he’s hungry. I never force him to eat. When he’s hungry, he eats. He also gets exercise everyday at the playground. He’s lean and surprisingly muscular and strong. I give him freedom. I see parents giving their kids imprisonment. Parents tell their kids they have to eat this. They have to eat that. They have to eat everything on their plate. Our bodies are incredibly intelligent. When the body needs fuel it will ask for it. Overweight kids eat a lot of junk food and get no exercise. And they are imprisoned by parents who dictate (dictators) life to them. We don’t have to dictate to an acorn to become an oak tree. We just have to give it plenty of love and energy. Nature does all the rest.
It takes a village.
Nature not nurture.
Blah blah blah…
Parent’s should be ashamed of their fat kids – not because the kids are fat, but because they rasied fat kids. Spend less on junk food – that’s one way to skinny em up. Oh – here’s another idea – make them go outside to play.
Gee, those ideas were cheap.
The fat kids usually have FAT parents. It’s all the fast food, french fries and catsup (the sole vegetables, aside from that pickle on the hamburger), soft drinks, and chips, the overabundance of hydrogenated oils, and soy filler in EVERYTHING..that’s plumping these kids up. Doesn’t help that some peanut butter makers (JIFF) are taking out the peanut oil, replacing it with partially hydrogenated Canola oil, then adding SUGAR to the mix, to make it more “kid friendly”. The food industry has adulterated and screwed up most everything on the supermarket shelf.
Read the labels!!!
The only way to keep kids fit is to keep a steady supply of fruits, veges, well prepared meats, and keep the sugar down to a minimum, keep the fat at bay, and avoid all the fast food restaurants and “pre made, convient” foodstuff that are poisoning our kids, and us.
Remember…our “life expectancy” is based on the generations BEFORE US… given the shape of the American public…the real death rate is going to plummet to closer to 40-50 years over the next few decades, unless we change something NOW.
Meetsys Right!
I moved from a cab of a long haul truck two years ago into an office, quit smoking a little over six months ago and recently moved up into a larger waist size for the second time. I’m a big guy to begin with and things were really getting out of control, but I wasn’t really worried because the last time I was in the hospital was fifty years ago getting my tonsils ripped out.
Then I spent a night from hell, left arm aching so bad Tylenol couldn’t fix it, chest pains and my whole left side in pins and needles. The next day, still alive, I had no problem adopting a significantly different lifestyle.
Should you allow your children to eat like they want, sit on their ass and watch TV like they want then you’ll be setting them up for a night like I had, only they might not be as lucky. Kids don’t know any better, that why they have parents.
You’re right. They have “adulterated and screwed up most everything on the supermarket shelves.” That’s why I’m eating homemade organic bean-and-vegetable soup right now. P.S. It isn’t “keep kids fit.” It’s “make kids fit” in the car seat!