Are We Responsible ????

While the pediatricians and nutritionists were quick to suggest to parents to start healthy eating habits early, my question still remains. From the start of a young girls' life we have other factors at work that encourage this kind of prepubescent obesity.

1. School and Daycare lunch and snack programs that are loaded so full of carbohydrates and empty calories with little of no nutritional value that we only encourage these young girls to become junk food-aholics. Soda and Vending machines located in schools and readily available to children.

2. School lunch programs devised by "nutritionists" and dieticians that are still working off of the FDA model of the food pyramid which is completely backward. These programs have usually three different food groups. A fruit, a vegetable, and a starch but all heavily slanted toward the higher carbohydrate containing members of that family.

3. Medical professionals (yes the same ones that may have been involved in writing the article and correcting you about your dietary choices at home) who prescribe various and assundry anti depression and mood altering medications that almost all list as a side effect -- guess what -- weight gain.

Lets get real here, there is a lot more at work than what is served on the tables at young girls homes in the USA every day.