The Power of Family Dinner to Fight Childhood Obesity

While our children's health is a matter of good concern. I must say that obesity is a condition that afflicts the most of our society and clearly it not the end all in our concern for a healthy lifestyle. If a child is physically able, one should be encouraged to exercise ACTIVELY his or her entire years until perhaps one has become a mature adult in the thirty some year age range in my thoughts. I do not think that our dietary obsessions are the most ugly of human activities nor do I think that our major concern should be for the aesthetics of our generation­s. That said, the linkage to diabetes and other health concerns is a very real and scary prospect and we should do all we can do to encourage healthy living in the younger generation­s. Exercise and diet are essential. To think that we are going to live on fast food at a fast pace and eat foods with high sugar contents and other major amounts of carbohydra­tes and processed foods is to consider that our priority is just on base wants and not the type of diet that yields a healthy mind and physical body. The school lunch programs are surely a place to begin of course. But that said, I would never starve a child of all of the food options and colas completely­. "A healthy citizen is a country's greatest asset" (Churchill­)
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