Child Obesity, was Real Milk

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Bad food is part of the problem. But as a working teacher, i know that two

other factors are huge in creating this problem. One is a general fear of

letting children go outdoors, mainly due to sensationalization of a very few

rare kidnapping cases. The other is the prevalence of video games, which

mean that nobody has to go outdoors to play any more.

 

One of my most able computer students is also one of the most obese in the

whole school.

 

When i did a lot of travelling from 1989 through 1998, i noticed large areas

of the country where you would never see a child playing outside. It got

worse as the years went by.

 

At 04:44 PM 3/18/02 -0500, you wrote:

>I haven't gone back and read the posts related to this (sorry, I'm working

>backwards today, trying to catch up), but I wanted to add my two cents too.

>We drink raw goat's milk here, and we have been for years. When we started

>drinking goat's milk only, I wasn't surprised at how our health here just

>seemed better.

>During our dry spells, I will purchase organic cow's milk or get raw from a

>friend. We don't over-do dairy, or anything if we can help it. As I read in

>the last post, yes, our food has too many hormones, antibiotics, etc in

>them. And our grocery stores sell junk. As soon as our grocery stores sell

>organic anything, I buy it. I buy from the local organic farmers. If we can

>get people to support those products life would be better, wouldn't it?

>I know I am amazed at the obese children everywhere. It is sad. Education

>from folks like on this list, to friends who just fall into the fast food

>life is a start. I know sometimes its like swimming upstream in raging

>white water. I will give my free range chicken eggs to people and they bulk

>at the idea. The eggs look different, they taste different, can they be

>bad? Ugh, if they only knew mine were 24 hours old and the grocery stores

>can be 9 months old.

>Thanks for letting me add on!

>And I know, writing this here is redundant, isn't it? =)

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