Childhood Obesity Increasing

One way I know there are more incidences of childhood obesity is by comparing photographs. What photographs?

Just compare photographs of your class with those of your child's. Wheew! They are almost all bigger than we were back then - and we weren't starving!

Even that boat that sank in New York last year went down because we are getting bigger. Built to hold a certain number of people, this boat was loaded with 2 less than the full capacity and it went down.

They said the average weight of boat riders back in 1955 was around 145 lbs. Today, the lightest one on board might be 150 lbs!

Anyway, the child obesity figures are expanding and that means we may be a bigger, sicker nation within a decade... not because of our population growth, but because our children eat more fast food and exercise less than their parents who used to walk more.