According the New York Times published on May 28th 2008, the percentage of children suffering from obesity might come to a halt after 20 years. Some researchers are optimistic with this finding, others are still skeptical about the significance of it.
Although the obesity rate has hit a plateau now, 32% of children are still suffered from obesity. This rate has been stable since 1999.
From the data conducting from 2 surveys from 2003-2006, the obesity rate fell from 17.1 to 15.5%. However, researchers have been trying to find out the importance of this decrease. Some doctors and scientists across nations explained that the reason behind this decrease is the increasing in public attention to children’s health and weight.
I think parents nowadays pay more attention to what their children eat. To accommodate this trend, food manufacturers and fast food restaurants offer more varieties of healthy and low-fats food in their menus. A few years ago, there wasn’t any 0 trans fat KFC? Now the kids have more choices of healthy food that tastes good. One thing I just worry about is that even if we can reduce of fat-intake from foods, how are we going to end the sugar-intake from carbonated drinks? I tried to persuade my kids to choose Diet coke or Diet Pepsi with 0 calories, but they didn’t like it at all. They told me zero calories=zero taste.??..? How do YOU persuade your kids to choose healthy foods and drink? Share your method here.
Source: Hint of hope that child obesity hits plateau
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