What do you think is the leading cause of obesity among children in today's world?

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LilMikey	George W. Bush Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

2Bold2Btold	I think its 4 things mainly 1) junk food 2)fast food 3) being lazy sitting around watching tv or playing games 4)treated milk We drink our milk boiled with water it tastes healthier and there are results, truly treated milk is a dangerous thing. as well as milk in general. Think about it mother cows give their abaies their milk so they get fatter and grow. correct? we feed our children cow milk so what can we expect especially if the milk is treated. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

B Am	To much junk food Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

robsthings	High fructose Corn Syrup. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

cynicusprime	Bad parents letting them eat whatever they want. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

housefullofboys3	video games... kids don't play like we did as kids (I'm a 30 something) Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Ginkgo	They say it is soft drinks since you gain all this weight from it without eating any food. But here are other factors-- see last fat loss tip. http://phifoundation.org Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

lilkracker78	a change in lifestyle (sitting around watching tv, playing on the computer, and video games as opposed to playing outside) and a diet of unhealthy food Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

evanlah	fast food, junk food, lazy parents shoving convience foods at them instead of cutting up some veggies, and fruit. and a lack of exercise. sitting in front of the tv and video games, shoving doritos and oreos in their faces, washing it down with some dr pepper, makes fat kids! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Mopar Muscle Gal	too much junk food, lack of exercise, too much time in front of a computer Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

bwjordan	1. Soft drinks. Look how many calories are in that Coke. 200+, and you drink 2 per day, and your recommended daily caloric intake is only 1200...Do the math. Plus, the calories are almost pure sugar. 2. Foods served at schools. It is horrible that innocent kids are being marketed and targeted by fast food companies in public schools. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Darby	Fast food, inactivity (USA, not world). Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

coolkittenwinx	Fast food and laziness or lack of time combine together to form obese children. Lazy parents or working parents that have no time to cook take their kids out to places to eat. Since mothers of today are working, they don't make dinner every night, and take the shortcut of just taking their kids to a nearby McDonalds. Kids get used to this way of eating, and end up eating a lot of it. I think this is a well thought answer myself, and I think that people should start looking up old recipes and making dinner once in awhile. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

mustanglady	Everybody on the run and just "making do" with convenience foods. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

bond_fan_001	Simply addiction to unhealthy foods and under-activeness. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

charbarski	there is not one factor but many when i was young i was always outside and McDonalds was a treat not the everyday norm we had big wheels not barbie jeeps and most of our food had not been pumped full of hormones Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

hollaback holly	not a balance diet .....go, grow,glow foods Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Methlehem	Fat parents (commonly referred to as SATAN)! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Bliss.	Junk food and being lazy....not playing any sports, stupid play stations....they waste time sitting and playing stupid wrestling games when they could do something better! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

SAMI	Limiting chilren 2 one or 2 and taking too much care of them. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

atticcat	JUNK FOODS Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Entwined	Not enough exercise. Simple as that. 20 odd years ago when I was 5 or 6, and up until I was ten or eleven in 1990/91, we were always outside running around. Nowadays kids just sit in front of the tv or computer. It's not their fault, of course. Lazy parents, higher cost of living meaning that there is less supervision because parents have to work more, aggressive marketing of TV and video games, more paranoia about the dangers they might encounter if they dared to venture outside (read: hysterical media) etc. I could go on all day. I don't think diet has a great deal to do with it. I grew up on fast food and junk, but always took a lot of exercise so it just got burned up. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Robert R	too much sugar, fat and not enough exercise. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

AMY	fat parents feeding them hotdogs, mac and cheese, icecream, and whatever else they want because it's easy Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Patricia D	Complacency among the adults who are responsible for these children. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

GodsGift2Women	Fat Parents = Fat Kids. There should be a no mating law between fatso's. PS - your name is "annal" lol Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

cool guy	I'm betting it's that they eat too damn much. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Nunoyvgvna Awi	flat up laziness. as a kid I rode a bike, built tree forts in the woods, would walk the neighborhood w/ buddies at night, play tag football over 5 yards. I watched my half brothers 20 yrs behind me do none of the above but sit inside every day eating potato chips and playing video game after video game. And today they are both easily 8 years behind where I was in basic every day smarts and knowledge. No wonder kids of today have no brain or what not...they were raised not too. They were raised to stare and be fed info, nothing more. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

stormwarnfm	Too much food and the fact that things are too easy. My grandfather hit the nail on the head when remotes came out for TV's...it was the end of the skinny world when you didn't even have to get up to change the channel. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

PANDABEAR	video games Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

jen	Same as adults. Too much of the wrong foods and too little exercise Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No