What prompted the weight problems epidemic? What are the results?
HOUSTON – When it involves the childhood weight problems epidemic, the prevailing narrative is that obese youngsters — and their dad and mom — lack the collective will energy to place down the potato chips, choose up a leap rope and work at losing a few pounds.
“… medical doctors specializing in weight problems and weight reduction say sure scientific and societal elements — together with genetics, the rise of processed meals that embrace soybean oil and nationwide overconsumption of sugar-sweetened drinks — usually tend to blame for childhood weight problems than lazy children or indulgent dad and mom.
“Obesity is a disorder which, like venereal disease, is blamed upon the patient,” says weight problems researcher Dr. George Bray, the opening lecturer on the first annual U.S. News Combating Childhood Obesity summit, held at Texas Children’s Hospital.
It’s the blame challenge that stands in the best way of progress in…