Number of Children With Chronic Diseases Quadrupled, Study Says

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Russ Bianchi — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:24:45 GMT

Lack of any bioavailable vitamins, minerals, nutrients, antioxidants in today's highly processed food and beverages is the real cause here.

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Sonagi — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:45:53 GMT

In addition to the common sense advice to prepare healthy meals at home and exercise together, I would also suggest sending children to school with healthy lunches prepared at home, rather than lunch money for chicken nuggets or whatever sodium laden chemical concoction is on the day's menu in the school cafeteria.

Parents should also organize to keep vending machines out of schools, to improve the nutritional value of school lunches, and increase PE time in the school curriculum. I teach in a school where 1/3 of the student body lives in poverty and qualifies for free or reduced meals. Five mornings a week our neediest children get a nice dose of brain-unfriendly aspartame or sucralose in their breakfast cereal and pastries. A lot of these poor kids have no place to run around after school, either because they live in multifamily dwellings or because their neighborhoods are infested by gangs. Recess isn't sufficient in getting kids active because overweight and older kids tend to sit around, rather than run around. Structured PE keeps the kids moving .

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soliloquy — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:56:29 GMT

On top of inactivity, vaccinations, and the processed garbage most people ingest and call "food", add one more factor: the vast majority of children are/were breastfed very little or not at all, so they are not prepared for life the way they were designed to be

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Serendipity_203 — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:47:40 GMT

I agree that TV is not good for kids, however, I think TV is being used as a scapegoat now for conditions like childhood obesity and autism because it doesn't implicate the real folks to blame - Big Pharma and the big processed food industries. I believe vaccines and trans fats and corn syrup are among the top causes for the sick generation of children we are seeing today. Babies and kids are also given way too many antibiotics and other meds. My children are unvaccinated, never had a single med of any kind, occasionally eat something with real sugar in it (no corn syrup!) and they watch a few hours of TV a day and they are the healthiest kids I know. While I shun most fast food, I don't want my children to feel deprived of what is, sadly, "normal" in this culture, so we do occasionally go to McDonald's but only for hamburgers and apple juice. No fried food as they contain trans fats which are a huge danger to their growing brains.

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Dachshund Lover — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:32:16 GMT

i think kids today are too sheltered and grow up to soon.They need to go out and just play and be kids.Everybody is too worried bout kooties and things like that.Growing up, we finished our homework quickly coz we wanted to go out and play. Other than it being fun, we went out got some fresh air and exercise. Even built our immune system up catching cold's and the flu. I cant remember taking a flu vaccine ever.

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mmc88121 — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:51:46 GMT

Lack of parental supervision do to the "keeping up with the Jones" syndrome and overvaccination. These are the two main causes of chronic health problems in the USA.

Mary

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Magnolia — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:17:41 GMT

This article made me sad and raises a lot of questions, none of which are being answered intelligently.

Children are exposed to foods that are pretty much devoid in nutrients, toxic chemicals in the environment, too much TV and computer time, not enough time outdoors in the sunshine, and in many, a lack of sleep. They don't know what is a right and healthy lifestyle and the government certainly isn't teaching them. That leaves parents and caregivers, and many of them are clueless as well.

The payoff for taking responsibility for our own health is enormous. How can we reach more parents, and subsequently more children and show them how to achieve greater health?

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The Herb Doc — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:39:59 GMT

The article says, “No one culprit” Well they are dead wrong! The “sub culprits” (like over eating after school because there are no parents home) all come down to one thing: LACK OF FAMAILY UNIT. If this could be encouraged instead of just to “get ahead” there would be much less problems. WHY CAN”T THEY GET THIS????

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annapavlova42 — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:39:05 GMT

Conventional articles only focus on the negitive with zero solutions. Are we surprised? Those of us that are educated in the alternative world can read between the lines.

They are not interested in making a possitive difference, what they are interested in is, keeping the general public on a string so the FDA, big pharma and our government will continue with their shake-ups.

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Reesacat — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:23:55 GMT

The amount of food additives and chemicals like HFCS parallels this
rise.

I keep thinking about the film "Supersize Me" and how sick the man got.
He was a healthy adult-imagine what this is doing to children with 1/3 the body mass and rapidly growing bodies, especially endocrine and
nervous systems.

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