Kitchen vs Gym |🍟🍔🥤or 🏋️‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️

Childhood obesity. What do you think? Is it due to children spending too much time on their devices, watching tv, playing on their phones, and not enough time playing outside?

Mmm. Not really. Low exercise output isn’t really the main issue.

Here’s an example: To exercise off the calories of 6 chicken McNuggets a child would have to run 3 1/2 miles. Did the meal come with a soda? That’s another 2 1/2 miles. How about a side of french fries? Add another 2 miles. .

Total: 8 miles. A kid would have to run 8 miles just in order to burn off the calories from lunch. So lack of exercise or unhealthy eating? Is it input or output?

While in theory a child could exercise off the calories from a happy meal, childhood obesity is definitely disproportionally due to poor ‘input’ much more so than it is due to a lack of ‘output’. There’s a reason the phrase, “you can’t outrun a bad diet,” exists. .

Both diet and exercise are super important. But I gotta be real with you the kitchen is mightier than the gym.

We live in a culture where:
1 in 3 kids in grade school is now at an unhealthy weight already.

1 in 3 kids born since the year 2000 will develop diabetes* at some point in their life.

1 in 3 girls will get cancer at some point in adulthood.

1 in 2 boys will get cancer.

*If a child develops diabetes before the age of 15, statistically he loses 17-27 years off of his life.
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Sources:

(1) Katz DL. Unfattening our children: forks over feet. Int J Obes. 2011;35:33-37. (Link )

(2)Vorwerg Y, Petroff D, Kiess W, Blüher S. Physical activity in 3-6 year old children measured by SenseWear Pro®: direct accelerometry in the course of the week and relation to weight status, media consumption, and socioeconomic factors. PLoS One. 2013;8:e60619. (Link )

(3) 1 in 3 grade school children at an unhealthy weight: Link

(4) 1 in 3 kids born since the year 2000 will develop diabetes: Link

(5) Lifetime Risk of Developing or Dying from Cancer:
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