The Children That We Are Seeing Now
Every day we are seeing children that are massively overweight. Everyday we encounter kids with the diseases of late middle age - diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia. Everyday we see sleep disordered breathing, and the attendant problems with behavior and learning.
I may be wrong, but I see a public health crisis growing in front of us that is bigger than cancer and AIDS; a generation of super overweight adults that will have the chronic diseases that accompany obesity and will have had them since childhood. In terms of healthcare finance, this is the bomb that will wreck our treasury. In terms of worker productivity, this is the glue that will cause the economic machine to grind to a halt. In terms of our ability to be identified as a world leader, this is a major factor that can spell our demise.
Of course, there is a fix to this, but I don't think that anyone is interested in hearing it yet. The folks in Northern Europe have it right, though. They ride their bicycles everywhere. Don't see many of the super overweight there. We must become a country addicted to movement, just as we have become addicted to fast food. If we do not, I predict a rough road ahead through the first half of the 21st century.
I really feel sorry for the kids that I take care of that have massive weight problems at a young age. I know the life that they face and the disability that will prevent them from living it fully. We often speak about the amazing things that the future holds for us but if we don't fix this problem, for many, there will be naught but a dark future.
Rae Brown, M.D.
I may be wrong, but I see a public health crisis growing in front of us that is bigger than cancer and AIDS; a generation of super overweight adults that will have the chronic diseases that accompany obesity and will have had them since childhood. In terms of healthcare finance, this is the bomb that will wreck our treasury. In terms of worker productivity, this is the glue that will cause the economic machine to grind to a halt. In terms of our ability to be identified as a world leader, this is a major factor that can spell our demise.
Of course, there is a fix to this, but I don't think that anyone is interested in hearing it yet. The folks in Northern Europe have it right, though. They ride their bicycles everywhere. Don't see many of the super overweight there. We must become a country addicted to movement, just as we have become addicted to fast food. If we do not, I predict a rough road ahead through the first half of the 21st century.
I really feel sorry for the kids that I take care of that have massive weight problems at a young age. I know the life that they face and the disability that will prevent them from living it fully. We often speak about the amazing things that the future holds for us but if we don't fix this problem, for many, there will be naught but a dark future.
Rae Brown, M.D.
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