Chubby Chasers

Now-a-days, everyone is worried about the way they look. Unfortunately, many Americans suffer from obesity and as a result of that, their children are becoming obese too. This topic came up when I was reading the October 16-18, 2009 issue of USA TODAY on page 10A. The article was called, "To Stop Childhood Obesity, Look to Parents" by Mike Bartholomew, a pediatrician from Bismark, North Dakota. He was voicing his opinion on how parents should stop blaming the manufacturers for making fatty foods and start taking up some of the responsibility for their overweight children. I thought this article was interesting because it is so true. If you look at it, food is a choice. (Specifically what we choose to eat) What the parent eats, the child eats too and we already know about the greasy oversized portions that we Americans enjoy. It's to be expected that the number of overweight children is on the rise. This takes me back to the days before the Maury Show was nothing but pregnancy tests and who is the father of my baby. Back when Maury cared about the people who came on his show...but anyway, that's another story. He had a few babies on his show. The reason they were on there was because these babies were extremely overweight. I'm talking 90 lb year old babies who could barely walk. Now, in my opinion all the blame goes to the parents for making those toddlers that huge. I mean, they're too young to drive up to the McDonald's or to drive to the grocery store to pick up family sized chips, Halloween candy, and Oatmeal Cream Pies.