Lois

I study an article the other day entitled How Match is Your Kid? Study found that 1/three of all teens would fail an eight-minute treadmill test. Fairly scary! There are reasons for this of course, like:

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A huge enhance in portion sizes from just 10 years ago

The sedentary nature of todays activities, eg., web, instant messaging, video games, ipods and so forth

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School lunches

As a school counselor by day, I see very first hand what kids consume. Final year I was doing some analysis on soft drink consumption and was shocked by what I study. Just 15 years ago little ones drank twice-as-a lot milk as soda. These days they drink twice-as-significantly soda as milk. I decided to see for myself if this statistic was accurate. Right here is what I found: Of the 400 kids I observed, 95 % of them drank sweetened soft drinks and percent drank milk. Thats right, not 1 kid that I observed drank milk. Soft drink consumption is undoubtedly element of the difficulty taking into consideration that just one particular can of Pepsi is 140 calories and contains ten teaspoons of sugar.

Well, not to get entirely off track, right here is what I really wanted to share. There is a really well-known lunch that is served when a week to the students at my school. It is referred to as the Buffalo Chicken Wrap. Generally, its a deep-fried heart attack on a bun, covered in thick, fattening sauce. The youngsters flock the lunch line on Buffalo Chicken days. Lately, the cafeteria service did away with this wrap since they have been losing money on it. The students werent as well content, so they took a stand and boycotted purchasing food from the cafeteria.

The first day of the boycott an announcement came over the loud speaker that a resolution had been produced and the Buffalo Chicken Wrap would return. The roar from the students was deafening. All simply because of a deep-fried chicken wrap that could very possibly be the unhealthiest point served for lunch anywhere on the planet.

Now I want you to actually let this sink in: 1/3 OF TEENAGERS ARE UNFIT. This is the time in life when a single is supposed to be healthiest. But, 1/three OF TEENAGERS ARE UNFIT. What is going to take place to these kids in the future, taking into consideration that 90 % of overweight youngsters become overweight adults? Parents and educators really require to assess what it is that kids are eating and drinking these days. We need to make adjustments, quick.