An Open Letter to Parents and Educators Who Refuse to Give Up on Childhood Obesity Prevention

One of our biggest challenges is finding adults (i.e. parents and educators, including physical educators) who actually believe that today’s kids can be systematically motivated enough to tackle a difficult task like learning to do pull ups, in front of their peers and stick with it week after week, month, after month, all year long, until they naturally immunize themselves against obesity for life.

That is to say, it’s easy for most adults agree with the claim that kids who can do pull ups are never obese. Most have witnessed that during their school years. Furthermore they also agree with the claim that those kids who successfully learn to do pull ups have naturally immunized themselves against obesity for life as long as they maintain the ability, because they intuitively know that people who can do pull ups can’t be obese.

Saliva Swab Testing – Childhood Diabetes and Childhood Obesity Prevention

Saliva swab testing has now expanded to include diabetes, obesity, cancer and other metabolism based illnesses. With the numbers of people in America who could be classified as obese and diabetic or pre diabetic the importance of prevention has become that more important. We all know that proper diet and exercise can go along way in solving this problem for some parents it may take stronger methods to provide the motivation in creating an environment conducive in accomplishing this goal. Though many parents may believe that they provide this ideal environment they may need the help of a physician and the results of clinical testing to demonstrate that there may be a more serious underlying problem.

Up until know testing for childhood diabetes and obesity took as many as four vials of blood. This process is time consuming, uncomfortable, painful even frightening for the child and parent who is obviously concerned for the safety of their child. Well the same technology that has given us the convenience of saliva drug and DNA testing has now provided an important tool for the fight against childhood diabetes and childhood obesity treatment. With a simple swipe of a swab, a saliva test sample can provide the necessary information a qualified physician can use to map a proper course of preventative action.

Jobs, Problem Solving, and Childhood Obesity Prevention

Jobs are being lost by the boatloads all over the nation at an alarming rate. This in turn threatens our nation’s economic viability, reduces our confidence and our spending capacity, and in turn that threatens more job losses in an ever increasing downward spiral. But let’s stop wringing our hands for a second and ask the following question. “What is a job anyway if it’s not an ongoing set of problems to be solved on behalf of someone who’s willing and able to pay you for solving them?”

Problems Equal Opportunity

In that sense, the more problems we experience, the more job opportunities there are on the horizon, presuming you can find someone to pay you for tackling and resolving those problems. In the best light then, the myriad of problems our nation faces today should be seen as a myriad of opportunities, with the challenge being to identify someone who can and will pay your for solving these problems. Change and opportunity (including won/lost opportunity) inevitably go hand in hand.

Childhood Obesity Prevention Studies Set in a New Context

As a nation, we’ve spent billions and billions of dollars on studies in the name of discovering a practical antidote to childhood obesity.

For example…

We have studies indicating that childhood obesity is related to our modern fast food diet.

We have studies indicating that the odds of childhood obesity are increased in a couch potato generation of kids who prefer TV and video games over riding bikes and climbing trees.

We have studies indicating that the odds of beating obesity are better for kids who have access to daily PE than for kids who lack access to daily PE.

We have studies relating childhood obesity to poor sleeping habits, to green neighborhoods, to a child’s social circles, to parents who take responsibility for their kid’s diet, and to the presence of super markets in economically challenged neighborhoods to mention only a few.

Childhood Obesity Prevention – Why Breakfast is a Must

Lifestyle for children is as important as lifestyle for an adult. The fast pace in the morning sets the tone for the rest of the day. How do you slow it down? Why must you slow it down? What happens if you do not slow it down?

Childhood obesity prevention-Why breakfast is a must is very important for you, as a parent, to understand. Here is why:

Step 1. Your children need to slow their pace down before they go to school. Step 2. Most kids today will be obese before they are teenagers, breakfast can prevent this. Step 3. Their lifestyle is set in the morning, make sure it is set properly.

Prevention is the key to stopping obesity and you must set an example early in their lives. Stop for one moment right now…Ponder on what I am saying. How important is your child’s future?