Do Kids Make You Fat?
Well, that’s what some studies are inferring, that having children makes you more likely to gain weight, and maintain that gained weight, at least more so than their couterparts who do not have children. The study specifically shows that adults with children in their homes eat substantially more bad fat in their diet than their counterparts with child-free homes. Might this be since many parents tend to give their children more fattening foods, like ice cream, macaroni and chees, crackers, and other sorts of slowly burned carbs and fats? It could be….
The reasons cited for this type of discrepancy are the usual. That high fat, high salt, and less nutritionally valuable foods tend to be consumed by parents and kids because parents simply don’t have the time to cook wholesome healthy meals from scracth too much any more. Not only that, fatty, salty and high sugar foods are more convenient and more affordable, something I wish we’d really see change in the next ten years.
Why can’t organic foods that are wholesome and healthy be cheap? This has always perplexed me, that we mass produce so much of our food now, and load it with fattening additives, bug sprays, and other toxins, that the only logical conclusion would be a surge in obesity and weight problems along with blood sugar and obesity related health issues in the US over the past few years.
