For some reason, certainly unknown to me, kids just do not seem to be built like they used to be. I am not sure what the data is on child obesity, but I would imagine that it probably varies depending on if you are talking to some one selling fast food or someone selling exercise equipment. However, some simple observations will tell you that kids are no longer built like they used to be. This is not well hidden by the popular clothes worn by young girls that seem to be tighter than tight. If there is any flaw at all, it is there for all the world to see.
On the other hand there seems to be a lot of kid that are in extremely good physical shape. There are young boys with bulging muscles and young teenage girls with the figures of young women. I was at the home of a friend taking picture of our 8th grade daughters before a formal dance last week and more than one of the parents commented to me, "girls didn't look like this back when we were in school." And you know, they were right.
It is almost like the shrinking of the middle-class in America. The average built teens seem to be diminishing while both the fit and the fat are growing in numbers. Unfortunately, it seem that there may be more becoming fat that fit.
Am I the only one seeing this? And if you agree, what do you think is causing this change? Is it fast food, electronic game, the media or something we influence at parents?
What do you think? I know there are some genetics that we can not control, but if this is a trend to be more fit or more fat, are we (the parents) part of the problem?
