CDC: Most adults should restrict salt but don’t
Doctors Say Kidney Stones in Kids are On the Rise
Let me see, we aren’t supposed to eat as much salt as we do, and now they are telling us that our kids are getting the problem too. In fact, they are now saying there is an increase in kidney stones with them. It reminds me of not too long ago when doctors were seeing Type 2 Diabetes in more children for a disease that was typically found in adults over 40. According to the CDC.
“Children and adolescents diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are generally between 10 and 19 years old, obese, have a strong family history for type 2 diabetes, and have insulin resistance. Type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents already appears to be a sizable and growing problem among U.S. children and adolescents. Better physician awareness and monitoring of the disease’s magnitude will be necessary.”
Do I need to say anything more? No. The problem is that we are having a snowball effect. We’ve got the adults (the parents of these children) who have got their own issues. I love this from the first article, “It’s unlikely that most adults will ever follow the government’s recommendations (for sodium consumption).” Of course not! Who follows the food pyramid anyway? Granted, I think they do great work on obesity. I worked at HHS on it, but I left precisely because they weren’t the answer alone! If they were, we’d all be skinny! I don’t think it should be up to them to educate. We have to empower ourselves to healthier lifestyles!
Ok, so we’ve got the parents who love to prepare processed meals for their kids to put everyone either in a food coma or a sugar high. Then if there isn’t time or money to prepare something at home, they go out to the golden arches of sodium, McDonalds or if Joey won his baseball game, why not go to The Cheesecake Factory? Is there a better way to reward oneself than with food? So the family waits for two hours for a table and when they finally sit, it’s a blended drink, an appetizer, full meal, and can’t forget the cheesecake the size of a small child. We wonder why we’ve got issues with sodium.
The poor children are just following in our footsteps! I have to say, given my own battle with obesity I know ONE thing. Parents – it is NOT about your child’s weight. I’ve been there and I know that there is a REASON they are eating like that. Did any of you see that Oprah episode a few months back with the obese kids and how sad they were? They did the exercise, “If you really knew me, then…” Every kid and parent was screaming and crying. It ALL came down to the REASON they were eating. Did anyone notice that much like an addict, they hate that they can’t stop and hate themselves for that?
They are going through something, and no diet or fitness program will help them unless you get to WHY they are eating, or not eating, which seems to be more of a trend with younger and younger kids these days. Until we stop focusing on their weight, and focusing on them as human beings with feelings, the epidemic will only continue to get worse. In order to GET to those feelings, we have to help them not to numb themselves (and I’m not just talking about the kids people!).
The ONLY way we can get them to see their feelings is if we feed them better, slowly take out the toxic stuff. The more processed foods they eat, the more sodium, sugar, calories and fat. The more unprocessed foods, the more aware they are of their feelings and the better they feel in their body.
We’ve got to focus on the real problem. It’s not an obesity epidemic. It’s an emotional one. These poor kids and many adults like them are addicted to processed foods. We work on that, we have a better chance at surviving as a population.
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