Obesity in children has reached epidemic levels. Therefore, most parents believe that one of the reasons for this crisis is the commercialism which children are exposed every day. Parents consideration is that McDonald's' advertisements during kids TV programs easily effect on under 12 age children, and children tend to prefer good-looking fast food rather than homemade meal. What I would like to tell is blaming McDonalds is totally wrong. Parents have a responsibility to teach kids what kinds of foods are good for them or bad, and also advertisements always look good, even though true images might be different. After all, especially for younger kids, parents are the only ones that have control what they eat. Parents can help their kids make healthy food choices when they eat fast food.
I completely agree with the above paragraph. In the Healthy People Data for 2000, their goal was to get the percentage of young child obesity down from 15% of the US children to 5% by 2010. Well it's 2010 in less than a month and parents are still not getting the picture. It's about the education.
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