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Scardoc said:Did they say how old the kids they monitored were? I'm currently watching my 14yr old daughter go from a very active, ready to try anything kinda girl, to a can't be bothered, would rather sit on my ipod/phone than go do anything kinda girl. I think there's possibly a crucial stage when kids stop having that need to "play" and can become more lazy. Also, until very recently, they could drop PE earlier in school so there was no one making them do anything.
I don't buy, from what I see, that our kids are as active as 30 years ago. I certainly buy that they eat more, and too much, **** in their diets. Education is the only way forward and that can only start in earnest when our leader's start putting health first, and campaign funders second. That will be the day when someone can win an election without major financial backing. Could be a while then
No they didn't say the age range but the children they had wired up seemed to be across a good range of ages. They wired them up using devices that measured constantly over the day and did so over a long time. I was surprised myself but it seemed a respectable study done by respectable scientists. The whole point of the study was to identify the primary cause of childhood obesity i.e. "don't do enough exercise" as opposed to "eating loads of rubbish".
The point is the industry refutes all of this is their problem by saying "we aren't giving children rubbish its just they do no exercise". The study showed pretty conclusively the primary cause is "eats too much rubbish"
The reaction of our political masters at the time was totally and utterly predictable. I think the same reaction would have generated no matter what government was in power. The lobbyists have far too much power in this and other countries. What it will take is a state like California in the States going anti fast food in the same way as they were the first to seriously take on the tobacco industry and the oil industry with leaded petrol. It is only a matter of time which makes me feel somewhat optimistic.