Are your children fat? Why are they fat?

conorh91

Was reminded of this by the Kindergarten thread, but in this case the consequences are more serious than personal appearance.

More than one quarter of 9-year olds in this country are already overweight or obese.

This statistic increases even further as children grow into teenage years.

We are walking into a serious health problem, it's time to stop tip-toeing around it.

Why are children growing up in a state of poor health? Are your children fat? Why is that?

SureYWouldntYa

Food > Exercise

I was a fat child, and still am a fat man, why is this? I enjoy food too much.

Dave0301

If there are fat children, the responsibility lies with the parents.

krudler

They're not fat they're kidnap resistant.

The Backwards Man

Children these days don't know what a day's hashing in the bog or the purdie field is.

Macavity.

I think some parents give their children bigger portion sizes than are necessary.

fleet_admiral

My son eats what he wants and he gets a mc donalds once a week, He is as thin as a lat though as he gets mountains of exercise

Macavity.

fleet_admiral wrote: »

My son eats what he wants and he gets a mc donalds once a week, He is as thin as a lat though as he gets mountains of exercise

Exercise alone will not stop the spread.

Renegade Mechanic

krudler wrote: »

They're not fat they're kidnap resistant.

Tell me about it. Have to get a twin wheel Scania with the forklift on the back now:pac:

Pablodreamsofnew

It's the parents responsibility to teach their children healthy eating and bad food in moderation. My son gets a sweet treat once a week and it's just a small thing.

He loves good food and that's because I thought him too. That's what we all eat.

Tail Docker

Macavity. wrote: »

Exercise alone will not stop the spread.

I've three - all skinny yokes and they eat all around them, crap included. They exercise though and are on the go all day. Could just be jammy genes though.

conorh91

fleet_admiral wrote: »

My son eats what he wants and he gets a mc donalds once a week, He is as thin as a lat though as he gets mountains of exercise

That's great. But even where kids are active a lot, there comes an age where they need to be aware of responsible dieting. There comes an age when exercising all day long is not an option anymore. If kids don't get educated in responsible food intake, what will happen when they get older and need to sit at desks and in traffic for 50 hours per week?

Not trying to personalize it to you, as I'm sure you're a great responsible parent. Just making a point about some who take the attitude of 'they'll work it off, I'm not concerned".

uch

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Children these days don't know what a day's hashing in the bog or the purdie field is.

Wouldn't let anyone that uses them phrases near my Children

Jet Black

Laziness really. Parents feeding themselves and childern processed food full of crap. Ready meals and takeaways.

con___manx1

when i was a kid everyone was out running around after a football or playing chase on the road. now a days its xbox and playstation. they play virtual football with there fingers its called fifa : ) getting fat on the sofa eating crisps drinking coke and its all there parents fault. if your kids dont like sport simply bring them for walks to the beach forest or park. most fat kids are the result of lazy parents

Pablodreamsofnew

fleet_admiral wrote: »

My son eats what he wants and he gets a mc donalds once a week, He is as thin as a lat though as he gets mountains of exercise

It's 80% diet and 20% exercise!! I think once a week for mcdonalds is too much in my opinion. Once a month is healthier.

fleet_admiral

conorh91 wrote: »

That's great. But even where kids are active a lot, there comes an age where they need to be aware of responsible dieting. There comes an age when exercising all day long is not an option anymore. If kids don't get educated in responsible food intake, what will happen when they get older and need to sit at desks and in traffic for 50 hours per week?

Not trying to personalize it to you, as I'm sure you're a great responsible parent. Just making a point about some who take the attitude of 'they'll work it off, I'm not concerned".

Oh I know that, he eats very well but we allow him one treat a week, he is a fecker for baby stem broccoli and pink lady apples. he is just coming up on 3 so I intend to get him involved with the cooking very soon

MadYaker

Macavity. wrote: »

Exercise alone will not stop the spread.

Its enough when you're young. I have a sh!t diet but I exercise a lot and I'm in good shape.

eviltwin

I only let the kids have junk once a week, saturday is treat day but even at that I'll make it all from scratch. I make most of our food myself and we are vegetarian so that might help. I don't keep sweets etc in the house cause if they aren't there they can't have them. Pester power is hard to resist so myself or himself will do the shopping alone. Portions are important too, a lot of kids do eat pretty well just too much of it.

The Backwards Man

uch wrote: »

Wouldn't let anyone that uses them phrases near my Children

When I was a wain I spent every evening after school in October/November gathering purdies, done me no harm.

Shenshen

MrsYelnekoff wrote: »

It's 80% diet and 20% exercise!! I think once a week for mcdonalds is too much in my opinion. Once a month is healthier.

I never got any when I was growing up (seriously!) and I'm still fat

Macavity.

MadYaker wrote: »

Its enough when you're young. I have a sh!t diet but I exercise a lot and I'm in good shape.

It wouldn't be enough for me. If my diet is bad I swell up.

Pablodreamsofnew

Shenshen wrote: »

I never got any when I was growing up (seriously!) and I'm still fat

Well you don't have to have McDs to eat bad. My parents had a deep fat fryer! ugh. Everything went in it

uch

The Backwards Man wrote: »

When I was a wain I spent every evening after school in October/November gathering purdies, done me no harm.

I'm from Dublin City, my kids probably wouldn't know what Turf is or where it comes from

The Backwards Man

uch wrote: »

I'm from Dublin City, my kids probably wouldn't know what Turf is or where it comes from

Send them up to me next May, I'll soon cure that.

The Backwards Man

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Children these days don't know what a day's hashing in the bog or the purdie field is.

Never mind kids, I don't know what they are.

The Backwards Man

Candie wrote: »

Never mind kids, I don't know what they are.

Bog - the place where you get turf
Purdies - spuds, potatoes

I should start a summer camp

uch

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Bog - the place where you get turf
Purdies - spuds, potatoes

I should start a summer camp

To be fair, I used to be sent to my aunt's for a week to foot Turf when I was deemed strong enough, it'd put manners on any little bollix from anywhere

Cantstandsya

The OP seems to be looking for parents to come into this thread, see his question and voluntarily offer themselves up as sacrificial lambs to the slaughter.

“Duh, yeah my kidz is all fat coz I’ feed them whatevers they like. I’m not gonna let me baby go hungry etc.”

If we were to go by that select group that is parents on boards.ie it would seem that all the kids in Ireland are health conscious whippets who love broccoli, getting lots of exercise and only take one treat per week. It’s a pity reality, and the numbers that go with it, don’t back this up.

The reality is there are a lot of fat kids about these days. People are quick to point out how it’s all the fault of the parents but that doesn’t really achieve much apart from make them feel better about their own parenting skills.

So, let’s concede the point. Some kids are fat and some parents don’t give a **** about it. The parents might rightly be lambasted but it’s hardly the kids fault is it? So what’s the solution? We can all congregate on boards.ie feeling smug or maybe, as a society, we could accept some form of programme designed at reducing these fat kids’ plight? Of course many of the self-righteous boasters on here would baulk at any effort to help out those less fortunate kids who don’t have responsible parents as the only real options are likely to involve either taxing junk food or restricting access to it and advertising of it.

The Backwards Man

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Bog - the place where you get turf
Purdies - spuds, potatoes

I should start a summer camp

I know what a bog is! I don't know what hashing is .

I've never heard spuds called purdies though.

Pat Mustard

conorh91 wrote: »

Why are children growing up in a state of poor health? Are your children fat? Why is that?

Parents have been misinformed.

Acting upon the flawed Seven Countries Study caused a shift in foods supplied in shops; low in fat but high in sugar. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Countries_Study

Sugar is addictive so people tend to consume more of it without feeling satisfied. http://m.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/white-poison-danger-sugar-beat-article-1.1605232

Way too much carbs are eaten by people in this country. Leaving aside the obvious junk food such as chips, people eat way too much bread, potatoes and pasta Ireland.

Incompetence in government has led to misinformation such as the Food Pyramid.

People didn't change. The food sold in the shops did.

So what can people do? They can sort the correct information from the sea of unhelpful information that is out there, and change diet. Where can they get the correct information. Right here. For free. http://touch.boards.ie/forum/982

Excercise is great for many reasons but unless you get diet right, you are hitting your head against a brick wall. The saying goes; you can't out-train a bad diet (although maybe you can if you're a marathon runner).

The Backwards Man

Candie wrote: »

I know what a bog is! I don't know what hashing is .

I've never heard spuds called purdies though.

Hashing is working vigorously.

So if anyone asks you if you are busy, you reply 'aye, hashing flat out', or 'flat out hashing, aye'. Works both ways.

Purdie is a very specific North Donegal word, never heard it anywhere else.

Hotfail.com

The statistics seem to be completely misleading, in my experience anyway. I see very few fat kids around the place to be honest, maybe 1 in 25. And in my year last year there were about 105 of us, and I'd say there were 3 people who were fat. Not exactly frightening statistics.

Maybe it's just because we're a different breed down in this end of the country

The Backwards Man

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Hashing is working vigorously.

So if anyone asks you if you are busy, you reply 'aye, hashing flat out', or 'flat out hashing, aye'. Works both ways.

Purdie is a very specific North Donegal word, never heard it anywhere else.

I was hashing out the paperwork today. I was flat out hashing out the hash browns but the purdies were off.

I'm learning how to talk Culchie!

Ficheall

I have a food baby.

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Bog - the place where you get turf
Purdies - spuds, potatoes

I should start a summer camp

Can I come?

Renegade Mechanic

Candie wrote: »

I was hashing out the paperwork today. I was flat out hashing out the hash browns but the purdies were off.

I'm learning how to talk Culchie!

Good stuff. And if something ever hits you, its : "Who thrun that!?".

bboybaboy19

MrsYelnekoff wrote: »

It's 80% diet and 20% exercise!! I think once a week for mcdonalds is too much in my opinion. Once a month is healthier.

Most meals you'd get in mcdonalds would be healthier than the ****e they'd be giving them at home.

The Backwards Man

Candie wrote: »

I was hashing at the paperwork today. I was flat out hashing a wheen of hash browns but the purdies were aff, hai

I'm learning how to talk Culchie!

Now you're a culchie

Renegade Mechanic

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

Good stuff. And if something ever hits you, its : "Who thrun that!?".

I'm up on the thrun. I thrun a cukebuke at me mudder when she was cuke-ing the dinner (lunch). She said she'd hand it a lash.

I'll be fluent in no time.


Next week on 'How To Speak Culchie', pronouns - 'Tha' 'Wha' 'Yiz' etc.

superman28

It is shocking how many obese children there are in Ireland and more shocking still to know that this is the first generation of kids that will have a shorter lifespan than their parents.

uch

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

Good stuff. And if something ever hits you, its : "Who thrun that!?".

Here, Trun is a Dublin Word !

Lia_lia

Because they let them eat whatever they want! I don't have kids, but I babysat a lot of kids when I was a teenager so could see what lots of kids were eating. Most were grand, but a few of them could just go to the fridge/press/whatever whenever they wanted and take sweets, chocolate, crips, fizzy drinks etc :eek: I couldn't believe it. When we were kids we had to ask our parents even if we wanted a glass of milk or an apple! And we didn't have any junk food in the house.

Another one is portion size. Some parents seems to think children need adult sized portions.

Exercise is obviously a factor, but I reckon it's mostly down to diet.

Renegade Mechanic

uch wrote: »

Here, Trun is a Dublin Word !

It fair isn't. :mad:

uch

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

It fair isn't. :mad:

Right thats it, outside now !!

4zn76tysfajdxp

fleet_admiral wrote: »

My son eats what he wants and he gets a mc donalds once a week, He is as thin as a lat though as he gets mountains of exercise

fleet_admiral wrote: »

he is just coming up on 3

No offence but two is probably wayyyy too young to be eating McDonalds.

Sir Arthur Daley

Lyric Beautiful Firefly wrote: »

No offence but two is probably wayyyy too young to be eating McDonalds.

They would at least want to be primary school age.

wexie

One of my kids is pretty fat....:(
He's got fat rolls on his thighs, knees, ankles, wrists, neck....kinda everywhere.


But he's only 6 months and apparently it's a good thing at that age
The other 2 or tall and skinny cause they eat healthy and get tonnes of exercise

bboybaboy19

wexie wrote: »

One of my kids is pretty fat....:(
He's got fat rolls on his thighs, knees, ankles, wrists, neck....kinda everywhere.


But he's only 6 months and apparently it's a good thing at that age
The other 2 or tall and skinny cause they eat healthy and get tonnes of exercise

Real babies have curves.

No Pants

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Children these days don't know what a day's hashing in the bog or the purdie field is.

I'm 39 and I don't have a Scooby what you're on about.

Renegade Mechanic

uch wrote: »

Right thats it, outside now !!

Ah hayor now, lad. Im a better baler than any Mc Hale!