Childhood Obesity

Obesity among kids is a sensitive subject. No parent wants to hear people talk about their kids calling them fat in politically correct terms. 

What happened?

Why are there so many BIG kids?

Everything is fast, cheap, and easy today when it comes to food.

Do kids even know that veggies and fruits are grown?

Do they know how to make food or where it comes from?

Do they know that you can make food that you don't have to buy it?

They can shoot a moose and eat it.

Grow veggies and eat it.

Make bread.

I heard a lady talking about how her friends kid was so amazed that the lady could make marshmallows.

"No, there is a freakin marshmallow tree that grows in factories and they pick it."

I found that so funny!

But it's kind of depressing.

We don't know where our food comes from.

We don't know what we can get from the earth on our own.

That we can make stuff instead of buying it.

What happened to going berry picking?

Fishing?

Hunting?

Gardening?

All of that has gotten replaced by hamburger helper, McD's, and food in bags with ingredients that are impossible to read.

When was the last time that you had food where you knew where it came from and what is in it?