To date, the experts and the media have to portray Childhood Obesity as a complex problem with multiple and difficult to control variables. For example, there is the modern fast-food diet, and the mother works, does not have the time to cook for their children. It is the television, video games, and the computer, all conspire to ensure that children of the 21st Century as a physically inactive as possible.
Add to any advertising, encourages consumption of sugary foods, the lack of fresh fruit and vegetables due to a lack of supermarkets in poor neighborhoods, the lack of daily physical education, together with genetics and metabolism, and it sounds complicated and confusing, is not it? How do you attack? How do you measure and evaluate? And how do you pay for it in a bear market?
We billion
With regard to the payment for them, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has decided Childhood Obesity is so threatening that it devoted $ 500 million U.S. dollars over the next five years on the Finding a solution to Childhood Obesity. If you throw in all other foundations, companies, state and federal funding mechanisms, we must billion a year in the quest for a handle on childhood obesity epidemic threatens that future generations and the financial viability of our nation itself.
With a view to an obvious and easy solution
would But you do not know. After all that time and money to convince everyone how complex and confusing Childhood Obesity, suddenly there's an authority that has the courage to his hand and announced that obesity in children is not nearly so complicated and confusing as conventional authorities believe.
By recently described Operation Pull your own weight as "A simple, well-implemented, easy to document and affordable solution for Childhood Obesity", The American Society of Exercise physiologist suggested that conventional authorities have overlooked at least one obvious, easy and affordable solution, while focusing attention on complex possibilities.
as complex as you want it
So, if it comes down to it, you can Childhood Obesity so complex and confusing as you want it to justify billion, while the simple solutions with a view to the hideout were in plain text eyes for years. That is effectively what we have done until today. Or you can open your eyes and see what any physical educators has intuitively known for decades. Namely, children can do pull ups are never obese.
Yes, regardless of their diet and exercise habits, its neighbourhood economy, family genetics, or their fondness for video games, if you show me ten children can do, pull up, I 'll show you ten children who are not obese. And since access to a simple adjustable pull-up bar and leg pull-ups, which almost all children can learn to do pull-ups in a predictable amount of time. Therefore, almost all children can cost-effectively immunize against obesity for life, if we simply start early (Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade) and help them learn to do pull-ups .*
Why overlooked solution
Why have legions of experts overlooked this a completely obvious and easy solution for Childhood Obesity? Allow me this question with another question. When was the last time you saw someone spending billions to find an antidote against polio? Here is a clue. Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first effective polio vaccine in 1952, and once the solution was discovered, research money came to a screeching halt.
In other words, the minute someone discovered a real solution for Childhood Obesity, is the minute that all research money dries and blows away. In other words, the experts will be paid to the problem, not to resolve it. In fact, the existing financial incentives to avoid paying a real solution , And this is a real problem.
complex and confusing VS simple and solvable
But with or without an expert opinion blessing, the real solution Childhood Obesity is in the hands of individual parents and Educators, working directly with individual children, with real names, genuine smile, and actual needs. It is these parents and educators, must decide whether Childhood Obesity is a complex and confusing dilemma, or a simple and very solvable problem.
If they choose , Complex and confusing, they have a ready excuse for wringing their hands and procrastinating more. But if they are simple and solvable, they transform and spread confusion in the understanding and action. At this point, the problem is solved by a child to a Time. Parents and educators, it is in your hands.
* Substitute any sufficiently challenging functional acid test (ie dips, rope climbing, climbing, hand-stand push-ups, push-ups Superman) as the successor of pull-ups and the results are inevitably the same .
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Rick Osbourne is a Chicago based writer who currently serves as Executive Director of Operation Pull Your Own Weight, an informational web site that's dedicated to naturally immunizing kids against obesity for a lifetime without pills, shots, or special diets. If you're interested in childhood obesity prevention, then check out either http://www.pullyourownweight.net or http://www.pullyourownweight.com any time. Osbourne is also a public speaker, and he's recently published a book entitled "Operation Pull Your Own Weight: A Radically Simple Solution to Childhood Obesity," (on the web site) that provides practical minded parents and educators with a simple, functional, affordable, and infinitely measurable antidote to childhood obesity. Osbourne can be reached by email at Osbourne.rick@gmail.com
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