The Health of Your Child. Whose Responsibility Is It?
Can you be sued in the future for what your child is eating now?
Scenario: Two or three decades from now, scores of adults with health problems like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity will be suffering serious self esteem issues and spending tons of money on medicine and treatment. This will have been caused by what they were fed in their daily activities during their childhood.
Who's to blame then? Responsibility falls on their parents. The 'victims' join sessions for group therapy and looking for a way to pay off their mountain of medical bills, file cases on the ones that raised and fed them during childhood. Strangely enough, they win the case since the judge apparently went through the same experience and frustrations they went through.
This scenario might be funny and stuff of fiction, but if you really think about it, it's not at all impossible. People these days have pointed accusing fingers at their parents for problems that may have root causes in their childhood. The looming health crisis in the future can make bad child-rearing lawsuits highly probable.
The Journal of the American Dietetic Association published a study recently which showed that the diets of toddlers and babies in these times are as bad as those of average unhealthy teenagers who live mainly on junk food.
It's sad, but most of the respondents that did report having a vegetable as part of their diet thought French fries qualified as one. A third of the children surveyed by researchers from the Tufts University School of Medicine did not even have fruit and vegetables in their daily.
It's bad enough that a lot of children these days aren't getting much exercise sitting in front of the boob tube the whole day watching cable TV, but researchers also discovered that some parents were even pouring soda into baby bottles designed for milk. Cola drinks and other types of carbonated drinks are a major cause of obesity in adults.
Not surprising then that a fourth of preschool children suffer from obesity and the numbers are increasing rapidly. Furthermore, preferences in children's diet are established during 2nd and 3rd years of their lives, so the statistics are certain to get worse. Most cases of heart disease and diabetes are linked of course, to bad diet and unhealthy lifestyles, so children these days or on the road to bad health.
So can parents during these times of fast-food, marathon online games and cable TV do anything about this unhealthy trend? Of course! We all have the capability of influencing our offspring's lifestyle habits dramatically. Being good role models for our children by adopting healthy eating and exercise habits is a good start.
Perhaps a few decades from now, babies that have had the fortune of developing good eating habits and health lifestyles will grow up and praise their parents for playing a major role in letting them turn out to be smart, fit and wealthy adults. Wouldn't this be a better scenario than seeing your offspring in court because the bad stuff they ate during childhood? - 17269
Scenario: Two or three decades from now, scores of adults with health problems like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity will be suffering serious self esteem issues and spending tons of money on medicine and treatment. This will have been caused by what they were fed in their daily activities during their childhood.
Who's to blame then? Responsibility falls on their parents. The 'victims' join sessions for group therapy and looking for a way to pay off their mountain of medical bills, file cases on the ones that raised and fed them during childhood. Strangely enough, they win the case since the judge apparently went through the same experience and frustrations they went through.
This scenario might be funny and stuff of fiction, but if you really think about it, it's not at all impossible. People these days have pointed accusing fingers at their parents for problems that may have root causes in their childhood. The looming health crisis in the future can make bad child-rearing lawsuits highly probable.
The Journal of the American Dietetic Association published a study recently which showed that the diets of toddlers and babies in these times are as bad as those of average unhealthy teenagers who live mainly on junk food.
It's sad, but most of the respondents that did report having a vegetable as part of their diet thought French fries qualified as one. A third of the children surveyed by researchers from the Tufts University School of Medicine did not even have fruit and vegetables in their daily.
It's bad enough that a lot of children these days aren't getting much exercise sitting in front of the boob tube the whole day watching cable TV, but researchers also discovered that some parents were even pouring soda into baby bottles designed for milk. Cola drinks and other types of carbonated drinks are a major cause of obesity in adults.
Not surprising then that a fourth of preschool children suffer from obesity and the numbers are increasing rapidly. Furthermore, preferences in children's diet are established during 2nd and 3rd years of their lives, so the statistics are certain to get worse. Most cases of heart disease and diabetes are linked of course, to bad diet and unhealthy lifestyles, so children these days or on the road to bad health.
So can parents during these times of fast-food, marathon online games and cable TV do anything about this unhealthy trend? Of course! We all have the capability of influencing our offspring's lifestyle habits dramatically. Being good role models for our children by adopting healthy eating and exercise habits is a good start.
Perhaps a few decades from now, babies that have had the fortune of developing good eating habits and health lifestyles will grow up and praise their parents for playing a major role in letting them turn out to be smart, fit and wealthy adults. Wouldn't this be a better scenario than seeing your offspring in court because the bad stuff they ate during childhood? - 17269
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