The Health of Your Child. Whose Responsibility Is It?
Can A Person Sue His Parents For What Was Fed Him As A Child?
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.
Such a story may be funny, but believe it or not, it might really happen. Young adults these days have been blaming Mom and Dad for their current problems and health and dietary issues might easily include this. One thing's for sure, the US government or the American fast food industry won't be taking the blame for it.
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.
The diet of 1/3 of the child respondents surveyed by researchers from the Tufts University School of Medicine had vegetables and fruits absent from their diet. Most of those that did have vegetables present in their diet were under the impression that French fries qualified as a vegetable.
It's common knowledge that carbonated beverages are the main cause of obesity and the various health problems it brings. It's shocking then that some parents even give their children soda-filled baby bottles to be suckled on like milk.
As can be expected, 25% of preschoolers are obese and those numbers are increasing every year. Given that eating habits are formed during the ages of 2 and 3, you can bet the statistics will get worse. Most cases of diabetes and cardiovascular disease stem from unhealthy food and lack of exercise in a person's formative years.
The situation may appear bleak, but we are not at all hopeless. As parents, we can set guidelines that promote healthy habits early in our children's lives and be good role models by adopting a healthy lifestyle ourselves. Being good examples can have dramatic effects on the well being of our family's health.
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? - 17273
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.
Such a story may be funny, but believe it or not, it might really happen. Young adults these days have been blaming Mom and Dad for their current problems and health and dietary issues might easily include this. One thing's for sure, the US government or the American fast food industry won't be taking the blame for it.
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.
The diet of 1/3 of the child respondents surveyed by researchers from the Tufts University School of Medicine had vegetables and fruits absent from their diet. Most of those that did have vegetables present in their diet were under the impression that French fries qualified as a vegetable.
It's common knowledge that carbonated beverages are the main cause of obesity and the various health problems it brings. It's shocking then that some parents even give their children soda-filled baby bottles to be suckled on like milk.
As can be expected, 25% of preschoolers are obese and those numbers are increasing every year. Given that eating habits are formed during the ages of 2 and 3, you can bet the statistics will get worse. Most cases of diabetes and cardiovascular disease stem from unhealthy food and lack of exercise in a person's formative years.
The situation may appear bleak, but we are not at all hopeless. As parents, we can set guidelines that promote healthy habits early in our children's lives and be good role models by adopting a healthy lifestyle ourselves. Being good examples can have dramatic effects on the well being of our family's health.
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? - 17273
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