by Patrick Stewart

Created on: December 15, 2010   Last Updated: February 21, 2011

Controlled stuidies provide data that is biased and unfounded in many cases due to the fact that the studies are set up to either prove or disprove something.

Today with families either dysfunctional or both parents working the diet of most children is for the most part very bad. Sunlight and Vitamin D can be factored in because kids do not play outside like they used to. Yet humans still consume too much food and have no means to burn the fuels.

Obesity is a disease that haunts the United States and the media and marketing staffs do not help the situation. It is enough that so many young people are obese but the media creates a stigma for those that are and instead of helping to make them better it causes damage.

When many parents today were kids we ran home from the bus stop, if we were lucky enough to have a bus to take us to school, and we could not wait to meet up with our friends at the park or the field to play football, basketball, or baseball.  Even if we did not have an activity we were outside. Actually the reason for obesity in our children is that our country promotes obesity. Fast food has a value menu, real fruits and vegetables and healthy food are so expensive the average struggling family cannot afford to eat well. Milk is between 3 and 4 dollars a gallon, Bread is high and cereal and breakfast foods are outrageous.  Doctors say that Breakfast is the most important meal of the day but people do not eat breakfast especially obese people. Obese people do not have the energy to wake up and fix breakfast; they would rather eat a donut and drink a cup of coffee or a red bull.  By mid afternoon they are too tired to participate in an activity. You know if you think about it when we were kids we ate more than kids eat today but we burned it off.

Obesity is also paralyzing our youth because of society making being overweight a stigma. No, being overweight may not be healthy but obese people are a majority in this country and yet our media states otherwise and that is why bulimia and anorexia are becoming the major disorders that plague our children about 15% of young girls and women and about 5% of boys and men suffer from these disorders according to Ann Collins who is a weight loss consultant. Not to say that Physicians are going to the bank with surgeries like Gastric Bypass and laparoscopic band (lap band). Kids are concerned about their weight but lifestyle is the problem.

In conclusion Vitamin D is essential as well as sunlight which emits Vitamin D rays to nourish the body. We are trying to get insurance companies to allow weight loss surgery in their plan, yet what is happening is we are telling our young people to get fat; it is ok because the doc can fix it. Obesity is a lifestyle affliction and it does seem that even Video Game companies are also concerned. They are probably afraid of being sued because it is their game system that made someone’s kid fat.

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