What problems have caused such high rates of childhood obesity?
There are many factors that contribute to childhood obesity. One of the problems is that in order to keep up with bills that most families have both parents working full time jobs. This does not leave a lot of time for other things, like household chores, shopping for fresh foods, cooking healthy meals and spending quality time outside with the children. This means that children come from school to an empty home and then have to occupy themselves and make their own meals. Since children are not born cooks and the parents don’t have time to make fresh meals, the children of today live from fast food, frozen food, canned food and sweets. This is not a healthy diet and all of those foods are known for the calories, saturated fat and high salt content. Of course once home, the parents do not want their children going out without supervision and getting into trouble. To solve this, many children have their own TV, computer, portable game console and regular video game console. This means th
