It's about time to start caring about children's health

I love going to the park for long walks. So the other day it was snowing a lot and I decided that I was gonna walk to the pool instead of take my car because I was supposed to dig it out from somewhere deep under the snow. So I headed to the pool an hour and a half earlier. On my way I passed by a lot of kid playgrounds and guess what they were all empty. And maybe some of you will say "It was cold and snowing, how do you expect to see kids playing around"... well it is not much different in the summer, or the spring or you name it when...it is always the same... you can't see more than three kids playing... everybody else is busy sitting in front of the TV watching stupid TV shows like Big brother or another similar show, everybody is busy playing D.O.T.A on the PC... Don't get me wrong there is not anything wrong with watching TV sometimes or surfing in the internet, but when all your life revolves around this...that is really WRONG!

That is one of the reasons that obesity among kids is getting such a serious problem in the last 10years. I remember the time when I was 10years old for example, there wasn't a force in the Universe that could make me stay home during the day. I was running around the neighborhood all day long, and when it was time for dinner my parents were always yelling from the balcony to get home in 5minutes, and I was always begging to stay outside and play just a little longer,and that little longer always became at least an hour. And guess what, at school in every class there used to be just one overweight kid, and everything has turned around to 360 degrees, and when you see kids, most of them are overweight and the normal kids are just a minor per cent.

And that ridiculous picture of the youngsters is a consequence of all the wrong perceptions of our society. I constantly see parents that do not let their kids to get dirty or play because they might fall and hurt themselves... well what is wrong with getting some mud on your clothes? What is wrong with scratching your knee? Come on, that is life! If you keep your kid away from all those "frightening" things, how are you expecting him or her to deal with life later on?

We need these up and downs while we are young so we can learn to deal with obstacles! Besides when you keep yourself under a glass lid and stay away from everything so you don't get dirty or ill or etc. , you do not help yourself, you only make it worse. That is way too bad for your immune system!

The other thing that is happening the last couple years has to do with the P.E. class at school! Nobody counts that class...it is something like a free class where you could sit on the bench and chat around or even go to the nearest coffee shop and eat junk food. So why am I surprised the playgrounds are empty...how could you expect from somebody to do something that they don't teach you at school.. you know school is sooooooo sooooooo important, they are supposed to teach you how to live life....bull***t again...


And before I forget...all these commercials that are chasing you everywhere you go... that "healthy" yogurt that has more carbs than you are supposed to eat in a day... or the "healthy,natural" syrup , in which the most natural thing maybe is the water it contains... or all these fruit flavored yogurts...why eat a fruit flavored yogurt instead of just eating a fresh fruit? ... Why didn't I see one time a commercial for something that is truely healthy, or about some sport activity that is being organized? Yea, maybe you will say, that they advertise the products that are being sold... but what you advertise is what people are going to buy... so when you advertise crap, they buy crap and that crap is ruining their health...

I myself have a cousin that is in that stupid situation. She is 10years old, and she is overweight. And she tried going to modern ballet but she did not stick too much with it, she is always on some "diet" for loosing the weight... Come on that is a 10year old kid...how could you let her get so overweight that she has tried more diets than all of my friends taken together... ANd when I go and see her she is always eating some biscuits and fruit flavored yogurts, and chocolates...is that the diet? How do you expect her to loose the weight when you literally push all that junk in her mouth? And every time I go and see her, I ask her what she has been doing..and she always says nothing, just the same boring stuff...are we still talking about a 10year old kid or for a grand lady in her late 80s??? Even my great grandmother is moving more... How could it be possible that a 10year old is staying the whole day at home watching all these movies on the TV ? ...let me say it again even my great grandmother is not watching that much TV...

So all these things are totally wrong and getting out of control with every single day passing... so I think it is about time that everybody steps back on their feet and start caring about children's health!