The New Fat Boys
Hello To The Free World
And To The Not So Free World
The United States is facing a MAJOR, MAJOR, MAJOR problem of child obesity. Probably the sad thing about child obesity is many schools in The United States are taking away health and fitness programs. But do you know what is the real thing that is preventing kids from excercsing?
The answer is VIDEO GAMES.
Playstation 1,2,3,
X-Box,
Nintendo WII
Online games like the very time consuming and addicting "World of Warcraft". These games are one of the reasons why kids have become obese. Kids do not want to go outside and play any more, they want to stay inside and any enjoy the brand new cool graphics of video games. Plus, if you add on the social media sites such as Face Book and MySpace, it is more enticing to stay in the house and communicate with friends. You do not even have to communicate with your friend face to face, you can do it through a computer monitor, computer screen or cell phone screen. New technology has made it so convenient now that you do not have to move from your room to have a good time.
I am someone who truly loves some of the new technology tools, but now some of these technological tools are consuming the lives of kids. They are barely using energy at all and you can't you use much energy if you are couped up in a room for hours playing games and chatting with your friends on Facebook. Since I am bringing up Facebook, I am very social person. I love to actually approach new people and to interact with them. To me there is nothing more fun than having a great conversation with someone face to face, especially a woman. But that is another topic. Do not get me wrong, I do feel that social media tools such as Facebook and MySpace are great tools when it comes to promoting services of business, in this way it has great value
So for me Facebook and other social media sites are taking away from the days of face to face conversation and actually building real friends. On Facebook, you have 100 friends and half of them are not really your actual friends.
But on the real, something has got to be done to get kids to be more physically active. I do not mean physically active by playing, NINTENDO WII SPORTS ACTION GESTURE GAMES . I means kids taking at least 3 times a day to work out at a gym, park or area that has some type of equipment. Kids need to take more time to cut back on junk food and eat more fruits and vegetables and drink more water instead of alot of sodas. I NEED TO DO THIS ALSO.
I am not to going to put blame on the parents, I want to put the blame on school administrations in The United States who are cutting fitness programs and who are allowing school lunch rooms in this country to serve kids pizza,hamburgers,tacos and other forms of junk food. There are many fast food chains that make money from giving schools their junk food. So I am really putting the blame on school administrations. Something has to be done to save the health of kids.
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