The Health of Your Child. Whose Responsibility Is It?
Can A Person Sue His Parents For What Was Fed Him As A Child?
Picture this: 20-30 years from now, countless adults swamped in medical bills will be suffering from diet-related ailments and unhealthy lifestyle habits that were formed when they were still in their infancy or pre-school years.
Who's to blame then? Responsibility falls on their parents. The 'victims' join sessions for group therapy and looking for a way to pay off their mountain of medical bills, file cases on the ones that raised and fed them during childhood. Strangely enough, they win the case since the judge apparently went through the same experience and frustrations they went through.
Funny as it sounds, this scenario can really happen. Sadly, some parents these days are being blamed by their offspring for the myriad of problems our society is suffering from. The numbers say it: scores of people a few decades from now will suffer a cacophony of ailments stemming from bad childhood diet and lifestyle habits.
In a study held by the American Dietetic Association, it was found that more than a few babies and preschoolers have the same bad diet as some of their teenage counterparts who subsist mainly on cola, greasy fast food and Doritos.
The diet of 1/3 of the child respondents surveyed by researchers from the Tufts University School of Medicine had vegetables and fruits absent from their diet. Most of those that did have vegetables present in their diet were under the impression that French fries qualified as a vegetable.
It's bad enough that a lot of children these days aren't getting much exercise sitting in front of the boob tube the whole day watching cable TV, but researchers also discovered that some parents were even pouring soda into baby bottles designed for milk. Cola drinks and other types of carbonated drinks are a major cause of obesity in adults.
No big surprise that over a quarter of the youngest members of today's society have ailments that stem from obesity. Also, since the majority cases of diabetes and heart disease are linked to eating junk-food and less than healthy lifestyle habits, statistics are bound to get worse.
The situation may appear bleak, but we are not at all hopeless. As parents, we can set guidelines that promote healthy habits early in our children's lives and be good role models by adopting a healthy lifestyle ourselves. Being good examples can have dramatic effects on the well being of our family's health.
Perhaps a few decades from now, babies that have had the fortune of developing good eating habits and health lifestyles will grow up and praise their parents for playing a major role in letting them turn out to be smart, fit and wealthy adults. Wouldn't this be a better scenario than seeing your offspring in court because the bad stuff they ate during childhood? - 17274
Picture this: 20-30 years from now, countless adults swamped in medical bills will be suffering from diet-related ailments and unhealthy lifestyle habits that were formed when they were still in their infancy or pre-school years.
Who's to blame then? Responsibility falls on their parents. The 'victims' join sessions for group therapy and looking for a way to pay off their mountain of medical bills, file cases on the ones that raised and fed them during childhood. Strangely enough, they win the case since the judge apparently went through the same experience and frustrations they went through.
Funny as it sounds, this scenario can really happen. Sadly, some parents these days are being blamed by their offspring for the myriad of problems our society is suffering from. The numbers say it: scores of people a few decades from now will suffer a cacophony of ailments stemming from bad childhood diet and lifestyle habits.
In a study held by the American Dietetic Association, it was found that more than a few babies and preschoolers have the same bad diet as some of their teenage counterparts who subsist mainly on cola, greasy fast food and Doritos.
The diet of 1/3 of the child respondents surveyed by researchers from the Tufts University School of Medicine had vegetables and fruits absent from their diet. Most of those that did have vegetables present in their diet were under the impression that French fries qualified as a vegetable.
It's bad enough that a lot of children these days aren't getting much exercise sitting in front of the boob tube the whole day watching cable TV, but researchers also discovered that some parents were even pouring soda into baby bottles designed for milk. Cola drinks and other types of carbonated drinks are a major cause of obesity in adults.
No big surprise that over a quarter of the youngest members of today's society have ailments that stem from obesity. Also, since the majority cases of diabetes and heart disease are linked to eating junk-food and less than healthy lifestyle habits, statistics are bound to get worse.
The situation may appear bleak, but we are not at all hopeless. As parents, we can set guidelines that promote healthy habits early in our children's lives and be good role models by adopting a healthy lifestyle ourselves. Being good examples can have dramatic effects on the well being of our family's health.
Perhaps a few decades from now, babies that have had the fortune of developing good eating habits and health lifestyles will grow up and praise their parents for playing a major role in letting them turn out to be smart, fit and wealthy adults. Wouldn't this be a better scenario than seeing your offspring in court because the bad stuff they ate during childhood? - 17274
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