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Hey Kiana! just shooting an idea your way, could make for a great video especially with your format. It's called 'Food deserts' to briefly summarize, it's a place with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, typically in low income areas.
Hey kiana, I’m a huge fan of your work and I want you to know that you have fans even from places as far as Saudi Arabia. I would love to hear your take on “what is a woman?” Documentary, your logical approach in tackling content is truly fascinating and I feel like you could offer a special perspective on the table. Good luck and keep up the good work ✨
I have just re-watched the first instalment of the old doc ‘weight of the nation - the consequences’ which is 10 years old, I don’t know if you have watched it but if not I highly suggest it, the clear stats given are indisputable. They also followed the health of children in a small town school right through to adulthood, fascinating and if that doesn’t scare the FA’s (not that they’d allow themselves to watch it) there really is no hope.
Here in Mexico, the government forced all food companies to add black labels to their products, indicating those that have excessive amounts of calories, sugars, saturated fats and sodium. All products that have at least one black label are prohibited from adding cartoon characters that may appeal to kids, and I honestly think it's one of the best choices they've made so far.
Yeah but obesity and food addiction sells and the majority of the world doesn't give a fuck about kids sadly Not only do you get a lifetime customer for your junk food you can sell them "miracle weight loss pills" as they struggle with their own self control 🙃
We have that in Israel too just in red and green stickers, green for generally healthier foods and red for high sugar , fats and salt , helped many people to do better choices
I felt so bad for Denisa. Her family doesn’t put in any effort to support her, then blame HER, a kid, for not sticking to a diet? And not only do they blame her for not sticking to her own diet but they blame her for THEIR OWN inability to stick to THEIR diets? And after all that, instead of making any lifestyle changes or supporting her lifestyle changes, they just want a “quick fix” by forcing her into a surgery that she doesn’t even want??? Absolutely disgraceful. (Edit: fixed the spelling of her name)
SHE needs to do this, SHE needs to have that...while we deep fry everything, load it up with more fats and carbs, toss in a little vegetable somewhere and eat it on bread.
It's the parents'job to monitor and help control their child's health. The parents must manage the diet for the child. All of it is a choice. For most people being fat is a choice no matter what kind of food is available.
@@Justin-fn1ey Agreed, but if they're going to eat mostly fat foods, not change their lifestyle and eating habits (I'm assuming you saw Dad), how can they expect HER to eat more healthy? Bake or grill the chicken, fresh steamed veggies, a little butter, salt, and pepper, some baked potatoes, fresh fruits, etc. Fiber, protein, fats, in balance. She can't do it on her own in that environment.
@@Justin-fn1ey I couldn't disagree more, try to live in a place that you don't have access to whole foods and have to eat processed food(aka food deserts) every day, i guarantee that you'd either be miserable or/and be obese. And not only that, but most of the people don't know anything about nutrition and how to lose weight, so when they search they might find some fitness influencer that will teach them some BS to try to sell some supplement/program instead of calories in/calories out. You have control for what you put in your mouth, but if you don't have enough knowledge you can't make smart choices.
I was raised by babysitters, as both my parents worked. The babysitters gave me junk food to keep me quiet. My parents felt so guilty about leaving me all day, they gave me sugar to make me happy. My addiction to junk food is my first memory. I was under the kitchen table with a tub of Cool Whip. I heard my Mom looking for me, so I shoveled that cream into my mouth so fast, I had the tub finished before she could find me. Even at that very young age, I knew that was messed up! I had to have my baby teeth pulled because they were all rotten from sugar. Saturday morning was like church for me. The commercials were more entertaining to me than the cartoons. Every single junk food advertised to me, I begged for & got. I am now in my 50's, diabetic, in stage 3 kidney failure, in need of having both knees replaced and 300 pounds overweight. Your video made me cry. I know the pain that awaits those children. My parents have apologized to me for raising me on sugar, but the damage is done. When I see parents with a cart full of Trix cereal, Pop Tarts & Sunny D orange drink, I want to scream. I feel parents in the 60's did not know the extent of the damage these new processed foods could do. But parents today have no excuse. The information is everywhere of how dangerous the junk food diet is. I very much look forward to your follow up on this subject. I always enjoy your content & get excited when I see you have posted. As you can see, food and weight are my hot button issues. Thank you for always enlightening.
@@lauraanne5175 I appreciate what you said. I have been trying to lose weight my entire adult life. I have had all kinds of therapy, went to seminars, joined every diet club known to man, and in desperation had gastric bypass surgery in 2001. I have lost 100 pounds 3 different times in my life, only to gain it all back plus more. I have lost 65 pounds recently and hoping I can continue.
I was similar as a child but I'm only 21 now and I managed to lose weight myself but the sugar addiction hasn't disappeared, now instead of chocolate and coke it's energy drinks and bread, my mother was quite mentally ill and I think she was just being ignorant, she ate proper food but me and my brother never did, she never made us try healthier foods, I think they just think "it can sort itself out later" or something like that, or in these people's cases(my mum was always skinny) just thinking because they're obese at 40+ their kid would be okay too, or the thought stresses them out so much they don't even bother
What I don't get... Why not give the kid the toothbrush while she watches Peppa pig. Make Peppa pig the reward for brushing the teeth. If the little kid isn't brushing her teeth I'd hate to see how mum's teeth are, if the mum doesn't see it as important.
Yep the poor girl will have years and youth shaved off her for NOTHING. That terrible surgery is a last resort not a miracle cure. It’s almost like killing yourself, least that’s how your body understands it, so it compromises other parts of your body to save itself and the stress will have adverse effects too. 😢
I was a chubby kid, but once my mom noticed that I was gaining weight faster and faster she changed the entire family's diet . we all got to a healthy weight because my mom realized that it was her responsibility to keep 7 year old me healthy. what the hell is wrong with these parents???
i had a non functional thyroid and my parents just chastised me and ignored my numerous health issues... aside from being an obese kid. seems like every doctor ignored obvious symptoms too
My first thought is WTF is Talula’s dad??? My guess not in the picture which means mom (Tho she needs to do better) is having a hard time being single mom
I distinctly remember when I was 9 my doctor was afraid I was going to develop diabetes and my mom had the nerve to say to me “if you don’t care about yourself then I guess I don’t either. You have to lose weight” while she was providing me with pop tarts and ice cream for dinner
That is absolutely vile. Some people are just too stupid to be able to understand a child's brain and experience is not exactly what theirs is. A social worker once told me a woman believed her child was trying to murder her because the mother kept the knives in a drawer close to the floor unsecured and the toddler kept opening it. Like she wanted the child taken away because she was afraid of it. Unfortunately most people are hopelessly stupid.
@@ReginaApple007 Hey, Cat. You ever hear of postpartum psychosis? Imagine if we actually had healthcare available to everyone and support for mothers. You wouldn't have to be a Cat and that lady could've gotten help, probably improving the child's life. 🤨
@@бронза.вафля.конус I didn't say that at all, did I. In ADDITION to not blaming the child, if we actually provided more social support there would be better outcomes for everyone. The phrase "it takes a village to raise a child" directs us to help each other, not just judge each other.
@@hattielankford4775 Maybe, but parents are supposed to be responsible. If you don't know how to take care of your children, don't have them. We know today how difficult it is to raise children and that there is not enough social support to help parents. This should be taken into consideration when people decide to have children. People do not think enough when they make that decision and that's a real issue. So yes, we will judge parents who hurt their children and are not responsible. Why do people have so many problems with accountability and want to make excuses for everything. This will not help society to grow either.
The first woman blaming "thyroid" after we watched her chubby daughter tuck into a plate of food that woukd be too much lard for an adult... it made my skin crawl.
@@DanCooper404Actually it’s the opposite, lard is way better for you than vegetable oils. You should be cooking all your food with natural animals fats.
Some years ago a law was implemented on Mexico and now it's illegal to advertise food products with friendly characters, for example there's a company called "bimbo" that used a bear to advertise it's products and they had to stop using it completely. A lot of people went crazy cause everybody loved the bimbo bear and also companies were crying about how that law was going to affect their sells to kids, which was literally the whole point
I love how all the packaged foods in Mexico have to explicitly state that they’re high in calories, sodium, sugar, etc. It makes the packages way less appealing when there’s a big stop sign-shaped warning on them 😂
My mom is grossly obese and has recently gotten to the point where she can't walk for more than 30 seconds without her knees and back giving her pain. It's excruciatingly painful to witness too. Devastating. I'm female, 5"7, 207 lbs. I was at 234 about four months ago, but once I saw my mother's struggles I just had to do something because I didn't want to turn out like that. I've almost lost 30 lbs and I'm still losing, and I'll share how. First, when I'm hungry, I remind myself that my hunger will be satisfied in the end no matter what I put in there. So I just choose whole foods instead of whatever monstrosity I'm craving, and easy - not hungry anymore. Second, I drink a glass of water before I eat. The water fills you up some so you don't overeat and it keeps you hydrated. Third. I allow myself to splurge on fast food once or twice a month, because if I didn't cut myself some slack, my diet would fail. What's life without treating yourself? Fourth and final thing. Exercising. I'm not even doing that much - walking when I get the chance. Around the block or to work, to the store if I need something. And dancing in my room when no ones watching. Using my exercise bike for 10 minutes. That's it. anyway this is my success story. I hope this helps somebody
It sounds like you're doing really good! Your diet sounds sustainable, so many people try to do heavy restriction with no success. The glass of water and occasional cheat day are solid advice. I think with your mindset you'll continue to do well!
I think this is helpful for everyone😊 im turning 17 in a view weeks and I felt sick and old because of my diet. 😅 I have been working out/stretching and eating more healthy since last monday and i feel so much better! I realised being healthy can be fun, like swimming with a friend We can do this!💪🏼💪🏼
The way she says "thyroids" with such a smug look on her face because it completely absolves her of responsibility when really she's just lazy and is responsible for her child being overweight
Yes! The way she said it made it very clear she knew that was an easy way to write off her child's obesity. "Clearly, it's not the food she eats..." then they show a toddler eating from a plate full of more food than I as an adult, fully formed person would eat in one sitting.
It’s the fun new gotcha. People hate when I pull up the ATA site and show that weight isn’t actually a main side effect and only 10-15 pounds can actually be blamed purely on thyroid issues
Because of my mom's narcissistic abuse and her purposefully overfeeding me, my father gained permanent custody of my siblings and I. At that time I was 16 yrs old and weighed ose to 400lbs. The veil of darkness that my mom put over my perception of the situation (by telling me that I was not fat but healthy) was lifted when I went to my doctor's office for an update vaccination, and told me that I was borderline to getting high blood pressure. That kick-started my motivation to lose the weight. I was trying to lose weight months before that appointment, but being told the harsh reality of my weight issue, but a healthy amount of fear in me. By the time I was 19 years old, I was at my ideal weight of 149lbs. No surgery at all. I am now 37 years old, married with three daughters, and I have kept all that weight off. The support of my father, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and my doctor played a huge part.
I gonna tell you something, my friend men most likely in history they had been violent, ambitious, wicked, however but what is surprise me most of the time is when women are bad, and do things like that all I see is pure evil
I love how she says "thyroid" with this strange, serene, "gotcha" energy. Like it's this total revelation that should instantly clinch the conversation.
@@kevinlegarrie7043 Eduction is the key to everything. And opportunities (or lack of). And support. It's not lazy if you aren't even aware (or in some cases actively prevented from) getting the help you need so you do whatever solves the immediate problem. (Yes, lazy parents are often used in these Channel 5-style documentaries because they appeal to the pearl-clutchers, but they do not make up the majority)
'I just like an easy life, doesn't everyone'......hmm simple answer, don't open your disgusting unwashed fishy flaps to every random lad, an learn to take better care of your kids that came out of your gigantic kfc bargain bucket between your legs 😂🤣
The fact that those parents are pushing for their daughter to have a vital part of her body removed, while not fully developed yet, just because they lack the willpower to eat healthy themselves makes me sick to my core.. Its on the parents, if your kid is addicted to junk food and candy, its because you've fed it to them. They aren't the ones grocery shopping and cooking.
That shit should've been a test on whether to take the kid away or not, and for that doctor to lose their license. It should be illegal to make a kid have a procedure that isn't necessary for their health
I understand you're sentiment their parents should be putting in more effort but you're thinking of gastric bypass not gastric band, it's a ring that goes over the stomach that restricts it's size nothing is being removed
Plus they clearly don't understand the nature of the treatment they're so desperate for her to have. Gastric bands can burst if you eat the wrong food! Plus if you eat too fast you can end up being sick. And no child should be having such major surgery. Given how rude some doctors can be to overweight adults, why can't a doctor actually speak realistically to these parents? The woman with the convenience food needs a damn good kick up her fat backside.
i’m 15, almost 16. i’ve always been overweight, not obese but noticeably larger than most other kids. my mother always blames it on metabolism, or “natural build” but i’ve taken the time to educate myself and have come to understand that it’s all about what you put in your body and how you live. in the past month or two, i’ve started buying my own groceries and i have been genuinely diligent. it’s not a quick process, but i am losing weight and gaining confidence. but most importantly, i’m becoming healthy. i don’t know why i’m sharing this, but i figured if any other kids in my situation knew that it was possible, they’d be inspired.
The bullying is so hard and ruins kids confidence. I was an overweight kid. When I wanted to join a basketball team I got so scared that other girls would bully me because of my weight that i chickened out. Ironic, isn't it? I mostly grew out of my weight once I was a teen, but now as an adult I still struggle with my self esteem because my dad and kids bullied and shamed me.
Sorry to hear that. This is a tough one because no one should be bullied, but equally the whole fat acceptance thing has gotten ridiculous. I don't know what the solution is.
@hankjones3527 The solution is just to literally let people exist and help them lose their weight on their own pace, what’s so hard about that lmao? I see a lot of people who are trying to lose weight but are too afraid to excirse in public/gym.
When I was 9, my doctor said I was obese. He called my mom in and explain to her, saying this is a very serious problem and she need to do something about it. From then on, we never have junk food at home. Everything is home made. She even squeeze fresh orange juice for us often if we want to have "juice". Almost every evening, our family would go for a walk. Of course I was being a brat and complained about wanting to eat sweets, cookies, soda, fast food and all that. Now that I'm 30 i'm forever grateful for my mom. She did the hard thing, so I wouldn't have a hard life.
These comments make me want to kill myself. Every time I read somebody has just a deeply good mother and doesn't appreciate it. You do appreciate it plenty in this comment, but you still don't.
I watched this show, there was a lady who takes a wheel chair with her to pick up her obese son from school so he doesn't have to walk home, when he is perfectly able to, it was absolutely outrageous. you get a glimpse of her at 0:10. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. British TV has a weird genre of documentary that's oddly popular, where they just follow around ignorant and usually poor people who make bad decisions in life without mentioning the wider societal context and influences that lead people to make bad life choices. They feel very predatory and like the point of the documentary is to just shame people and make the viewer feel better about themselves... its borderline bullying.
It's a combination of poverty low iq. They understand price stickers but not economy or nutrition, so they're very easily exploited by the junk food industry.
Yeah, I think it's a bit of a scared straight situation too because the people on the show are the worst so no one wants that stigma for their own obese family with rotten teeth so they might change. That lady was lying to the doctor about the wheelchair and said the show made her look worse. And the mom with the kids with rotten teeth she couldn't bother brushing also couldn't even show up on time for her appointment. She had no job but someone kept making her pregnant, I think there was something wrong with her brain. If they want these kids to get healthy they have to put the whole family in a program as all the families are obese too usually.
God, I feel so bad for Danisa. Her parents are bigger children than her, literally blaming their kid for their lack of discipline while constantly overeating themselves and bringing crap into the house.
Right? It hurts to admit that your kids weight issue is your fault, but it hurts your kid even more when you pretend it’s theirs. I hope she didn’t get the surgery
I'm yet to see an obese child with skinny parents 🤷♀️ it's like that doctor said, today's society's attitude is that it's always somebody else's fault. We're just victims! No personal responsibility and accountability!
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My mother lied to me for years, saying that I couldn't control my weight, it was genetics, there was no hope to lose it, etc. When I finally took a health class and found imout the truth, she would beat me until I ate everything she gave me. I wish people were a little kinder to fat people. Not everyone had a choice.
@@limendime3720 But it IS a choice even though some people don't realize it. I agree that people should not be unkind, but validating this illusion of not having the option to control your weight, does not help the person. I've felt it in my life so many times. Half of my adult life I've been over weight and believe it was my metabolism that stop me losing. The other half when I lost weight it was just the logical result of hard work. You have to recognise that you have the power to do it and follow good advice and not try to bring others into this false way of thinking.
She says at one point that she likes an easy life. I like an easy life too and every time I think about it, I acknowledge how my “easy lifestyle” can’t support a kid. You can’t have a kid and want things easy. Raising kids is hard, as it’s supposed to be. Pick one or the other.
Holy shit thank you for saying this. I also want an easy life, with lots of free time and disposable income, and you know what’s not on my list? Having kids or being a parent. Because you’re absolutely right, having kids and having an easy life are mutually exclusive
There are ways to make parenting easier without being horribly neglectful. I didn’t do this but I know some parents that have a special song or video they play as their child brushes their teeth. There are all sorts of way to make things easier but parenting is never easy and it really shouldn’t be.
She won't think her life is so easy when she can't roll herself over in bed because she is 400 lbs though right?!!? I struggle with saying no and sometimes cave because I feel bad for my neighbors that my son is having a fit because he wants some pringles but if my son was suffering because of how many pringles he was eating I would just stop buying them.
I remember being obese as a child. It was definitely a money/convenience issue. My mom didn’t have the time, and could not regularly afford fresh fruit and vegetables, so our food was more on the fattening end. However, once I got to middle school, her and I had a talk and we both agreed to go on a diet together (she was also obese at the time). We tried harder and eliminated junk food from the house and bought healthier food items at as little cost as possible. We both lost the weight. Teamwork 😊
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I'm not sure who I'm agry at most, Danisa's parents or their family doctor. How gastric bypass surgery is even on the table for a MINOR is beyond me. Especially after hearing how her dad explained that with the surgery it's an easy fix because they won't have to change their dietary habits. Who on earth informed him on that? That's the biggest joke I've ever heard. If you don't change your ways, within 2/3 years after surgery, you'll end up just as obese as you were before, because surprise surprise, the stomach just stretches again. Docters and dietitians know this damn well, so that this child is even being considered for surgery is absurd and not in her health interest at all.
My adult neighbor got bypass. I wondered about how she was doing (she's lost a lot of weight) and she said the trickiest part was making sure she was getting the diet right. She was eating all the right things and the right amounts, and the weight slipped off. One thing that I've noticed with a lot of families and businesses that's just ridiculous is portion sizes. When families are like "hey, they eat a well rounded meal with veggies for dinner", okay, but then you look at the plate and they've been given as much food as the adults, and they might only be 5 or 6 years old. There's a reason "kids meals" exist (other than the cheap toys) in restaurants: they don't need to eat as much, but the parents haven't seemed to figure that out. And if they're also members of the "Clean Plate Club", they're gonna teach their kid how to override their "full" cues and just overeat. I was one of those. I'm actually about at the point where I can listen to my body and understand when I'm truly hungry...30 years late. Now it's tricky in another sense: I have a hard time making myself eat enough calories by pure accident, because I don't live to eat out of boredom anymore. Once I really started paying attention to serving sizes, it was MUCH easier to start seeing the scale numbers go down.
@@lainiwakura1776 oh, always get those two mixed up. That's actually what my neighbor got: the band. She said eventually she could get it removed. An aunt had to get the bypass. My bad.
When i was 15 i went to a doctor seeking for help to lose weight. The only thing he said was "if you gain 20lbs more you'd be suitable for a bypass surgery". Lucky me, my mom told him he was crazy and take me out of there I was only 180 lb at the moment ando went down 40 on my own
@@fransilva4162 Nice. Been over 200 for over 20 years now. Ticked off about it. But finally had to buckle down and educate myself. It's the re-learning my hunger cues, only really eating when I'm hungry (or something light in case I'm not), working around iron deficiency, and re-arranging my schedule to make exercise easier to manage. Scares me that even a doctor would be open to offering a "quick fix" (a bloody expensive one at that). Yeah, I'm taking the slow road, but it's moving. Hugs and congrats.
It's the parents' responsibility. I'm a father of two (Spain) and we always spend around 10 hours a week cooking fresh and natural recipes because it is our responsibility to rise our kids healthy, and because we live them.
That little girl is really self-aware to realise and admit to herself that she’s addicted to junk food, and her honesty is endearing. She’s got a far better attitude than her parents, and I hope she manages to get healthy!
This is what happened to me. By the time I was 11 my body was literally covered in stretch marks. As an adult, I have always been a healthy weight, and eat very clean, but my body is permanently disfigured because of being obese as a child. I’m 27 and have never worn a bikini, been seen naked by anyone ever, or been even remotely comfortable in my body, even slightly. If your child is obese, it is YOUR responsibility to correct that in a gentle, non-traumatizing way. Kids don’t have the facility to understand proper nutrition. If you’re having a kid, educate yourself on nutrition and take proper care of the life you’re responsible for. Ignorance is nothing but a choice
I'm sorry you feel so ashamed of your body, but as a new mother who has a ton of stretch marks I want to tell you you shouldn't. The stretch marks are part of your story, of your triumph. You could also look into getting tattoos to obfuscate the stretch marks, make your body pretty in its own way, that's what I did with my upper arms and now I'm comfortable wearing sleeveless shirts.
@@pinkdiamond1847 no they definitly don´t go away. They are tears in an underlayer of the skin witch simply can be repaired. They may fade over time but never will go completely. Not even with surgery. I have the same problem as R T: age 12 I already had stretch marks on the thighs, butt and bust. nearly 17 years later and they are still visible eventhrough I am nearly underweigh now and tried to get rid of them since 10 years.
Massage the stretch marks with coconut oil or vitamin E oil. This activates the tissue to repair, I was a kinda hardcore bodybuilder from 20-23 and got a ton of stretch marks along my chest and arms from growing so quick and also from being hurt and losing a bunch of size so I can say for sure it works!
Im a paediatrician and the amount of willpower my colleagues and I had to have to stop ourselves from screaming at these parents. I agree with what the first guy said, you cant really outright say it to their faces, but find a gentler way of saying "yup, you fucked up your kid's health"
My current girlfriend is one as well and I admire her so mutch. It's not a job for me. Not at all. I don't have neither the academic, even less the patience to do this. I will end up hitting someone. At least cases like this are rare. But she called the social services many times. Here theses cases are taken very seriously.
I wish I had someone to stand up for me when I was obese by the age of 9. I was torn to pieces in school from the bullying. My parents didn't help me to diet, they had my blood tested for my thyroid. I lost all the weight by 16 but the damage was done, I'm traumatised by my childhood and it still effects me today.
@@mikebarry1988 im so sorry to hear that. But believe me, we try our best to help but there's only so much we can do in a few minutes of consultation. It really starts at home. Ive laid out all the things that could happen to the child, but some parents would just like to chuck the blame on something "they have no control of", like thyroid disease, etc. I hope youre in a better place now!
In Britain we used to get nutritious homemade school lunches. We used to get roast beef, veg, gravy etc. Now they have chicken nuggets and fries - warmed up. Processed food and fast food are FAR cheaper than buying nutritious healthy foods.
@@hellohaveagooddayThere are alternatives though. Like making the kid’s own lunch for them and this can work by never introducing junk food to them in their life so they will grow up having an irk against junk. Last resort would be to privately educate your kid or homeschool them since public schools are awfully funded and feel like a prison.
No, it's not. My weekly food budget for myself is 40 dollars (just under 32 pounds). I do not buy processed foods. If it's ready to eat after a minute or two in the microwave, I don't buy it. Fresh/frozen veg and fruit, potatoes, dried beans, rice and pasta make up 90% of my diet.
This just makes me so mad. It's revolting. They're supposed to provide her a better diet, and everyone who struggled with overeating/bingeing knows that it's IMPOSSIBLE to have control around things that are literally addictive.. of course she can't stick to a diet if you keep eating junk food in front of her.
Yup. I'm trying to lose weight. My parents eat garbage. I can easily avoid buying swiss rolls and cookies, but if it's there, I can down an entire pack of chewy chips ahoy in a day. My mom CONSTANTLY complains about being fat, yet she's the one who keeps buying all this junk!
@@truthspeaker8863 because the parents have an obligation to do what they need to do to overcome their own addiction in order to help their child overcome hers. It’s not easy- I, a drug addict in recovery, know how difficult it is. But it’s reasonable to be disgusted by the parents for not recognizing their own problem and taking real action to deal with it. They’re pushing their daughter to have a major surgery that she doesn’t want to have so that they can AVOID having to actually deal with their own problem.
@@WobblesandBean good luck! I taught my mom a few things about food nutrition, we agreed to help each other out and it's working! It's a very slow process though, so it takes a lot of patience, but it's worth it :)
@@WobblesandBean my parents have the opposite problem and have nothing home lol, i’m not obese or struggling with my weight. but like if i didn’t have an extremely quick growth spurt of like 20 cm in 3 years i would’ve been fat.
In the netherlands it is not allowed to use ‘child idols’ on food or to make any form of marketing directed at children till the age of 7. And you can only use marketing for food for children till 12 years old if it complies by the health standards. I did notice the shocking difference for the foods you showed and made me realize you indeed no longer see those here. 🤔 a good change!
It’s so sad, people were mad at my parents for the way they were so particular about the foods we ate, it was all organic and Whole Foods, seed crackers and healthy snacks…. But no one blinks when these kids are being fed junk
As someone who suffered from childhood obesity I can say that yes its with the parents. For me the diet didn't stick until I went to live alone. My step father is one of those "I eat only one thing" person and I didn't want to stress my mother in making me something separate. Somehow I managed to dodge all the obesity related issues.
@@badateverything5392 My dad was the same way. For some reason he would be mad that I asked for smaller portions, but then also mad if I didn't finish all my food. And his excuse was "everyone else is eating the same". But I was the only in the house that's under 5ft tall lmao My adult height is only 4'9", luckily I managed to just end up a bit overweight and am trying to lose it now. But it could've been much worse if I wasn't lucky enough to know better. I skipped a lot of meals because of that. It was the only way not to get in trouble.
And on the flip side of it, my mom didn’t cook/grocery shop enough, and the food I did get was always packaged/frozen crap from either her or my school, which never kept me full, so I developed food insecurity which lead to binge eating and eventual weight gain and THEN eventual anorexia, which was really severe. The only examples of eating I had were her picking at small amounts of food and barely eating any of it or my dad binge eating cereal and ice cream and then going on crash diets every time he gained weight. I’m doing great now though. Healthiest I’ve been in my life. I eat healthy 90% of the time and still have snacks and treats without overdoing it. I eat a ton of whole, organic, filling foods and have learned to cook healthy things that I love.
When I worked for a family themed water park, it was absolutely mind blowing to me how obesity ran through families and just how prominent it was. If the parents in the family were overweight, all the children were too. And when I say all children I mean ALL children, the 4 year old the 10 year old and the 16 year old alike. It’s not a crime to be overweight but it’s so important to teach you kids healthy eating habits, because usually keep these habits for life.
I'm guessing you mean this for parents on the obese end of the spectrum. My parents were a little overweight when I was kid, but myself and my brothers were FAR from it. I know plenty like this. I even know families with obese parents where the kids are normal. However, I certainly seen families like you mention too.
Well the parents teach their own bad habits. I mean, yeah it's partly genetic... But it's more of the environment. If the parents have an unhealthy relationship with food, they're probably going to teach their kids an unhealthy relationship. 1-) Oh you're sad? Here have a cookie. (*rather than, do you want to talk about it?) 2-) Oh you're bored? Let's go get some ice cream. (*instead of let's go for a walk or why don't you go play outside?) 3-) If you'll behave ill stop by McDonald's on the way home! (*and not behave and I'll buy you a toy or I'll show you how to fingerpaint or I'll read you a book at bedtime.) 4-) Clean your plate! If you eat all your food, THEN you can have dessert. (*You're full? Okay great! Go get ready for bed! Kids really don't need dessert anyway but a bite or two is okay... just not every day and not after forcing even more calories.) ***Ntm how they give their kids food to babysit them. They'd rather hand them a bag of chips than interact with their kids.
That's sad. I'm an overweight mom but my kids are normal/healthy weight. I wouldn't let my kids eat the way I do. They've been taught healthy eating habits. My unhealthy eating habits are mine!!!! The only thing I want to change is my ongoing depression and dependency on food. I don't understand parents who don't teach their children healthy eating habits 😢
Kind of horrifying hearing a young child describe her food addiction because I struggle with addiction myself as an adult, and it seems impossible sometimes now, I can't even imagine what it must be like to grow up with any kind of addiction as a child. Also to hear her casually saying she might die before she's thirty. And meanwhile every child cereal mascot is still right there. It's like we live in a parody of our own society.
Addiction is often correlated with drugs and crime. But in my experience, it really is a mental condition. There is no difference between a crackhead spending money on crack rather than food and a sugar addict spending money on a whole cake rather than fruit and veggies. I deal with substance abuse and I find it shocking how similar the thought patterns of over eaters in this docu and drug addicts are. The same hopelessness, excuses and futility. Almost accepting that they will die young because they see no way out of the habit. It's difficult as it is for drug addicts but imagine being a food addict: your drugs are being sold everywhere. Legally. Advertised ad nauseum on every media outlet. "Buy Coca Cola"/this sporting event was sponsored by Pepsi/McDonald's is planting a tree for every burger you buy/" The Olympics games even had beer brands as official affililates, indirectly advertising alcohol consumption. We are inundated with the image of the crackhead being ignored on the streets and say:" they have to fix themselves". But what about the billions of sugar addicts who are told by society to consume even more? And when they do try and do something about it: they are judged when opting for bariatric surgery. The only ones who win are those that fuel the addiction and those that cure the side-effects of said addiction. Food an pharmaceutical companies.
It should be considered child abuse but oh us humans insist that we can’t we say anything about anyone let alone look at the collective bad things we do because somehow humans are sacred…go figure
I can't understand how these parents could blame their children for that. You are the one preparing or ordering the food! What do they expect the girl to do? Watching their parents eating a burger while she's enjoying an apple? And they are saying it's her lack of willpower. Oh god. Not everyone should be parents.
You're right! I remember someone lamenting how they had to take their child to "taco hell." I couldn't help but politely point out that as the parent, they could decline the request. It's sad, because now those kids are 15 and 20 and both overweight. Sad.
That's without mentioning, where is the kid going to get an apple in the first place? As the one with the money, the parent is the one who has to buy healthy food. As the one who knows how to cook and can handle things like knives and stoves safely, the parent is the one who has to cook healthy food - you can teach your kid how to do it themself if you're going to be that lazy, but you still have to start, and you still have to buy it.
Go look at the baby food in the grocery stores and MOST of them have hidden sugar in them. They hook them onto sugar at 6 months. I didn’t give refined sugars to my son until he was almost 3 (had to battle a lot of judgmental people, people who offered him lollipops, and junk food at school) and while he does enjoy some sugar every now and then, he still enjoys his veggies and fruits. I would say he has a good relationship with food. But all of that being said, people hand out sugar to kids like crazy (with good intentions) and the food industry hides them in “healthy” baby food. Its not convenient. It’s an up hill battle and not everyone will like your parenting style.
That's why I made my own baby food (I had the fortune of having time and a blender) because I didn't trust the stuff st the store, and the brands that dont add any ingredients are very expensive.
They actually start even younger than 6 months; there are large amounts of sugars within baby formula as well. My niece had severe acid reflux, starting at a week old, and my sister-in-law developed severe postpartum depression/anxiety that required medication, so between the two, breastfeeding wasn't an option. Various doctors handed my sister-in-law different types of baby formula, ALL of which had some form of corn syrup within the first three ingredients. We ended up having to import formula from Germany! Literally all of the FDA-approved baby formulas have high levels of processed sugars, and if you choose to step outside what has been approved, you risk receiving ridicule from your baby's doctors. It's horrifying! I still can't believe that doctors and the FDA are endorsing pumping helpless little infants full of this garbage. It's literally setting kids up for failure.
@@kimberlymoore7859 corn syrup and seed oils. Those are the two main ingredients of baby formula in the US. I was blessed that I could breastfeed my children. Their aunt noticed how they were never massive "sumo babies" like her friends' formula fed kids. Also their poop was less gross and smelly.
I was 11 years old, very overweight, one day I told my parents to not bring anymore chocolate into the house.. I don’t know where this came from, but I went to a healthy size after that after months of just eating the regular food that my parents made and no junk food, and puberty helped elongate me as well. It was surreal. Even today my mum thinks about that event.
@@BrainsofaWeirdArtist play psychological warfare. Whenever they say:"you're just saying that because of someone else"- just plainly tell them: "The only one concerned with this, is me. It's my body, my health. I have an issue and as your child, I am asking my parents to help me in not eating unhealthy foods that make me fat; it is up to you to heed that call for aid or ignore it; you are the parents after all. But please-as your child-will you be so kind as to let me know?so I can mentally prepare myself for support from my own parents or a lack thereof? Good day, Mother and Father and thank you for your consideration".
same story with me. At 17 i told my mother i was going to get fit and if she continued to bring processed food to me, cakes and chicolates i would throw them to the garbage. She didnt believe and i threw them away. She learned the lesson and i dropped 20kg in 3 months and had the life i ever dreamed about. My mother was very poor and starved during most of her life so she thought giving me cakes and candys was an expression of love...
She's a behavioural psychologist if I remember correctly, I don't get why that area isn't more involved in weight loss and health in the first place, if there were a psychologist with dieticians and doctors I guarantee the results would be a lot better
Some added context: Back in the 2000s, there was this wave of pseudo-documentary tv shows in the UK, particularly channel 4, that was always framed as a serious insight into a serious topic, but was really just an excuse to gawk at the poor, the stupid, the different and the unattractive. They can offer some genuine information on a topic, but the main purpose of these shows were essentially to be a televised circus, full of clowns and freaks for the public to throw popcorn at. That’s why they don’t mention the food industry, because they don’t care about why the kids are obese, they just want to show fat kids and bad parents for shits and giggles.
Litteraly those documentaries were ruthless but I would call them Docudrama's their purpose is to entertain not really inform same with showing people who are on benefits never bothering to actually tackle the issue (because if they actually did it wouldn't be entertaining) but to find the most extreme people in that group and dramatise them so people can look down on them feel better about themselves and think that they're actually being educated on that specific group of people who ever they may be people on benefits,obese people,working class people ect
The How Clean is Your House show was like that too. I admit to watching it, and I always felt really sorry for the people featured, it was always clear they usually had major mental health problems: depression, anxiety, hoarding, among other issues. That was rarely mentioned though, and it was mainly just Kim and Aggie being disgusted, scaring, shaming and humiliating the people they were supposedly there to help.
This gives me flash back to Jamie Oliver, who tried to change school lunch in the uk. Back then he solely blamed the food and then discovered that parents left and right sabotage the project smuggling soda and junk food in to the school for the kids.
@@auraluna7679 just tipp in Jamie's school dinners I think it has only one seasons in one of the episodes a mother feeds her baby cola and a regular seen in almost every episode is that parents delivering fast food to the kids through the school fence!
A scene like that was in Morgan Spurlock's SuperSize Me. I wonder if it was a clip from your referenced show.... Whether it was from your show, or was from something different, it was shocking!
I was a child in school when they ran that programme. It was done in completely the wrong way. The food was all switched out to salads but they were the blandest shit salads because the kitchen team had no imagination whatsoever. The prices of the food also went up, and they took out all snacks that were deemed "unhealthy". It was also highly invasive as we were made to create food diaries of what we were eating at home as well. I get the motivation behind it was good, but it made healthy food seem like a boring chore and made us desperate to eat something interesting.
Sound like what happen with Michelle Obama. She wanted to change the school food program and some areas were starting to change and then parent started to whine just because he was black and a Democrats. Food in in USA schools now is Hot dogs on Monday, pizza on Tuesday, hamburger on Wensday, ect.
As always, you've presented an interesting video. I believe it is the parents' responsibility to nurture their kids properly but it is very hard to do so given the state of the modern food industry. The 3-part documentary series "The Men Who Made Us Fat" provides insight into how this all came about several decades ago. Being a parent who's trying to control their child's diet today is like trying to use an umbrella to protect one's self against the outflow of a fire hydrant. It's absolutely predatory.
Growing up, I was overweight, and my family and doctor were constantly putting me on diets. My family repeatedly belittled me for my weight and shamed me when I couldn't stick to a diet, yet they never changed how they ate. I remember them taking me to McDonald's. I had to eat a salad while they ate burgers and fries. We had all the diet foods, but I never saw any of the diets modeled by the "responsible" adults in my life. I started BED recovery in 2021 and entered a eating recovery center for 6 weeks. I've been doing the work and finally able to throw off the blanket of shame placed on me as a child. I'm not 100%, but I'm in a better head space now when it comes to my body and food.
I get it, man! It’s hard to try and change your eating habits when your family is constantly surrounding you in the foods you’re trying to avoid, and still making you feel bad about yourself (even though they can be to blame tbh)!! I’m glad it sounds like you’re doing better for yourself, though. Keep at it!! :]
I had this exact experience and I feel you. You didn’t deserve that hun. I remember my fam used to eat all the bad stuff in front of me and laugh bc I was out on a strict diet because of prediabetes from the food we kept consuming .seriously wasn’t fun!
This isn't necessarily true. Kids can get junk food from many sources outside the home. Birthday parties, vending machines at school or the mall, pizza fridays at school or afterschool events, well-meaning family visitors who give candy, movie theatre dates with friends, the list goes on and on. My parents never bought too much junk food but I remember eating all kinds of gross cheap snacks when I was growing up. Thankfully my rational logical side ensured that I talked myself out of any serious bad habits into adulthood.
@@nadias6435 yeah... no. Your parents play a huge part in how much you weigh as a child. Do you know why you had the "rational logical sense" to not eat so much? Because your parents taught you so. They conditioned you well. You should thank them really. Occasional junk food or even a light unhealthy snack a day is not going to make you obese as a child. A child does not have the means to go to parties or the movies every day or even every week. They certainly don't have the money to buy whatever food they want too. But if the parents do not have any limits on what their child eats and don't teach them any better, yeah it's on the parents for the weight issues. Not the child.
my mum gave me good food, hell, my siblings have more variety in unhealthy foods than I did as a kid they're super skinny and I was overweight. how could that be? presumably due to factors like my parent's age when they had me, the factors of the womb conditions when I was a foetus vs. when my siblings were foetuses. What about after we were born? I was raised to only be able to have dessert if I ate everything on my plate (my siblings are not) and apparently dessert was rare when I was a kid. My siblings have dessert every day, ice cream usually. What about school meals? I was on school dinners my entire primary school and had packed lunches as a teenager - ham sandwiches, carton of juice, and a chocolate bar or a slice of cake, granted, no fibre, but protein, carbohydrates and a source of fruit was there but my mum gave me the same portion sizes now as I had at about the age of 1 tbh, an adult's portion really, even on fruit, veg and all of that but of course, when I thinned down people were still saying I was fat so I drowned my sorrows by binge eating, so from college to university I went from being 5' 3" and 10st (just about healthy bmi) to being 17st 8lbs in the span of about 5 years
Kids will totally get junk food if parents don't buy them. But they will get significantly less junk food and a little bit of junk food every now and then is totally fine.
Exactly what happened to me. Dad too busy working all day and a mom who never struggled with weight so she just gave us bowls of chips with every meal and constantly encouraged us to eat more for the sake of "love." And then they ask their kid why he's gaining so much weight with not even a kernel of self awareness to be found. Felt worthless when I was a kid and never approached a girl. Lost weight at 28 when every socially significant thing in my life (high school, college) had already passed me by.
You have a thorough understanding of what to learn (since it wasn't taught at home), you have greater empathy, you'll do great in applying yourself in future, like social interaction but better. You have now evolved.
Let me tell you a little story about a boy named Dwight. He was from a fairly poor Kansas family, and his mother was too busy caring for a sick sibling to be bothered with things like cooking, so Dwight did the family's cooking, and even sold homemade tamales door to door to earn his spending money. Eventually he married a lady from a well-to-do family called Mamie, and even though she learned to cook somewhat, Dwight always remained the real cook in the family.
I grew up in the 80s, and I remember a few chubby kids and most thinned out by high school with a few remaining heavy or kept those bigger bodies that aligned with their family genetics. However, by the time my son was in school 2001-2018, some kids were the size of teachers in grade school and, by graduation, looked older. 🤷🏾♀️
Exactly. Parents can make any excuse they want, but at the end of the day, it's the parents who choose what their kids eat and how long they can play outside and exercise. Processed foods make matters worse for children with lazy parents (because without it, even the selfish parents have no choice but to give them healthier and homemade food), but that's only if the parent actually buys said processed food.
The parents are to blame but it does'nt change anything , parents with lower education, poor social skills, their own personality disorders have always existed. Obesity in children is new. What's interesting is to try to understand how marketing and the agro industry work with bad parenting to end up in this situation. I honestly don't know what should be done to adress this situation , just blaming parents wont do anything for the kids, plus I think these kids are not only obese but they also have all the other problems poor parenting brings in : bad school results, neglect, lack of discipline and purpose, bad education, low impulse control , and in the end low IQ.
@@-.-Monster no. However, some people actually don't know how bad for them some foods are and there are people who benefit from keeping them in the dark. They actively try to block anyone that tries to turn all of the cards face up so that people are better able to make the choice that are best for them. The enablers are as bad as the doer in some cases.
@Monster Seriously? You see a comment about undereducated people getting taken advantage of by corporations, and the first thing you think is «ah yes they just can’t control themselves». The reality is that we don’t know what is actually put innpust food. Food corporations will put the most unhealthy, but cost effective things in what they sell, and not tell us about it. It’s hard to keep up. Couple that with lack of food education, and even lack of access to good food in the first place, and of course obesity is the epidemic it is today. Your oversimplification is based on a wildly misconstrued premis.
@@-.-Monster why do you start with an accusatory question and assumption to ask for clarification? Is this the new way of communicating? starting a reply with:"oh. So you are saying...' I find it so dumb, juvenile and frankly, quite rude. It tells me that one is more concerned with upholding their limited levels of understanding rather than gaining wisdom by being unassuming and genuinely curious about what other people say and/or think-In order to gain knowledge and understanding. But these days it's: "oh so you are saying..." 🙄That is not what they are saying; it's what you are understanding and nobody is responsible for your lack thereof.
Kiana made the point about how the food industry has managed to completely pass the blame on to the consumers. It's a whole lot like people who don't tip in restaurants get criticised for being broke or stingy for not tipping, when actually the blame should be on companies who do not pay their staff enough in the workplace. They've managed to completely shift the blame away from themselves when they are the root cause!
The food industry doesn't owe you anything. They're not putting a gun to your head forcing you to buy their junk. You voluntarily choose to give them your money in exchange for their goods. Lack of personal responsibility is why society is so sick these days, beyond just the food problem. My weight ballooned in college when my depression met with the university's all-you-can-eat dining plan but ultimately that was my responsibility because I allowed myself to cope by shoving large amounts of food into my mouth instead of finding healthier outlets for my problems. That situation didn't change until *I* decided to take charge and change it and live healthier.
I live ten minutes walking distance from the most popular fast food restaurant in our country. I have never set foot in it for six years now. For the most part, we have control over what we put in our bodies and how often we do it. Any fast food chain or edible product may advertise itself to my face 24/7, but in the end, I decide what I should be eating on a regular basis. I'm not going to be immature and blame others for any poor dietary choices or decisions.
@@annemary9680 the food industry owe us since we are the people targeted by their heavy marketing. Not everyone is aware of the neuroscience they use to litteraly makes you addicted to their junk. No need to have a gun to be force to do something. They just use basic neuroscience and addictives ingredients and target very young kids. There are studies also that proves that the additives changes the bacterias in your intestines, those bacterias has a huge power on your brain so much that you feel the urge to eat more of those products. So it's not a blanket statement that will cure global obesity it's the end of this company. And they are dangerous for the planet anyway so we need to shut them down or make them change.
There was an awesome trend going around mom groups using the character partnering tactic actually! Put stickers of characters on food packaging or on toothpicks and stick it in food. It worked like a charm.
School lunches are something I never see come up in discussions about this. Kids are at school and forced to eat disgusting, frozen, low quality sandwiches and raw uncooked vegetables for breakfast and lunch. So when they get home or get their own cars/money, they’re going to get fast food because it actually tastes good.
Lunch in college in the uk had no variety. Same dishes every day (lasagna w salad, curry w rice or fried chicken/burger and chips). Those were sad days really.
As a man of nearly 70 years of age who brought up four daughters all of whom have done wellin life I can honestly say that it is the parents responsibility to ensure that the children get a proper diet and upbringing.
Kudos to you. You come from a generation of parents who actually did do parenting the right way. Unfortunately, the parents of this generation are lazy ass ones.
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@@eliascommentonly4652 Lots of people don't eat keto and do fine. Keto is fad diet. It was originally meant to be a short term diet that grew into a fad/trend.
Exactly what I was thinking. Im personally in favor or regulating these companies the same way we do with tobacco. I wouldn't be surprised if these food companies are causing more damage to peoples health than tobacco did
They’re heavily regulated in Australia and I swear you can see the difference. It is very rare to see an obese child here. Although there’s a shit ton of obese adults anyway
Easier but alot more expensive, and nobody is forcing them to eat oversized portions of the take-out and prepackaged food. Never believe the "can't afford to eat healthy" fat excuses from people who eat twice as much as they need.
My mother was sexually abused multiple times as a child by different people. She gained weight as an adult and did not loss it until she had gastric bypass surgery. She later admitted to me that she used her weight as a way to avoid being looked at sexually by other people. She didn’t want to be abused again and she thought that she wasn’t worth the effort to take care of herself. Unfortunately I picked up on her bad habits and am now trying to break those habits. I’m also trying to break the cycle so that my daughter doesn’t have to go through the same weight struggles. Definitely agree that it is a multi layer problem.
My own mother and a childhood friend of mine did the same, I also picked up the habit. I'm so sorry you have to deal with this as well. These problems are definitely complex and multi generational. Wishing you best of luck on your health journey! In solidarity 🙏💓
@@DivineLightPaladin thank you 😊 So far I have gone from 220 lbs as a 5’0 tall woman to 199 lbs!!! I am so excited to finally see a 1 at the beginning of my weight. I haven’t seen that in about 4 years. It has really encouraged me to continue doing what I am doing. I wish you luck as well. 😁
When that girl said she may not live to be 30, that was so devastating... I can’t believe how hopeless these people are due to their circumstances. Saying it’s all down to personal responsibility when allot of people are not well educated on nutrition and struggle with mental health issues like depression.
I went to a job interview here in Australia at McDonald's when I was about 23 and the manager literally said that they like to lock the kids in young so they keep coming back so I gotta be good with kids. I'll never forget it, one of those moments in life that no one would truly believe how casually it happened unless it was on film.
In the UK (and maybe elsewhere) university students can show their student card once a month or so for free food off the 99p menu. What you said isn't just that asshole, it's literally how they work
I’ve watched this documentary called “Fed Up” and it spoke about the negativity of the food industry, talking about how sugar is used in fat free foods and using cartoon characters in marketing to appeal to children. It also interviewed children affected by the obesity epidemic.
i gained a lot of weight after my mom passed away when i was 16. i’m 27 now and at a much healthier weight. but i feel like i only lost the weight because i was sick of everyone calling me fat and not because i wanted to be healthier 😢
No matter why you lost weight you did and that took a lot of work and dedication. Don't take that away from yourself just because your initial goal wasn't for health. It's never too late to become healthier no matter your current size or situation. I hope you continue to achieve your goals and live your best life! ❤️
@@EmyN for a while no.. and rapid weight changes has changed my shape but i’m happy. i have had some other health issues that i’ve been able to take care of with supplements and staying active.
I have an office job and I’m at a stage in my career where I am now in the generation who is training the younger generation. It struck me recently that nearly all of the youngest hires are extremely obese. We hardly print many things these days, but last week we had a project with lots of little printing spurts and I was actually worried about the person helping me being able to get out of her chair and walk to the printer 20+ times that day. She was so out of breath after just a couple of times. Of course there have always been overweight people with office jobs, but the difference between what used to be normal and now is very, VERY concerning. It’s hard to realize that this person in her early 20s is probably at, if not well beyond, the halfway point of her life if she doesn’t make very different choices for her health in the very near future.
As someone who worked a factory job, it's not just office jobs. My factory job there were only about 2 or 3 of us, on my shift (can't speak for the other shifts as I didn't interact witht hem much), were of a healthy weight. And we all got told we were too skinny. There were 2 people who were regular overweight, and then most of them were obese, if not morbidly so. I really thought a factory, being an active job, would skew thinner and more muscular but I guess not....
I lived in the England from ages 2-4 and attended regular kindergarten. Before starting, my mum was handed a sheet where she had to check any foods I wasn’t allowed to have on a daily bases and she was absolutely horrified. The list included crisps, biscuits, sugary cereals, highly processed canned foods etc. I’m so glad I had a parent who cared about nutrition and took responsibility.
That first Mom was wrong but at least she was honest. She represents most parents. They’re emotionally exhausted and just do what’s “easiest.” It’s hard to parent. It’s hard to sit up all night, get through tantrums, watch your kid refuse to eat for a day, etc. But if you can push through that it will benefit your children for the rest of their lives. 🙏
Yep. If you push through it early on, the benefits will far out weigh the temporary difficulty. Like the teeth brushing. It's a habit you have to establish. Why that wouldn't be a priority I don't know.
@@autumnrozariohallartstudio7396 Tobe semi fair, I only brushed my teeth once a day for a while when I was that age because I HATED doing it, and, while I did pay for it in cavities, it was nowhere NEAR the amount of tooth problems this poor child has. I just had about an average of one cavity a year until I got my shit together and started brushing my teeth regularly. But my mom actually policed the amount of sugar I was consuming, which I believe is this poor child's main problem. She'd still have cavities from not brushing, but nowhere NEAR this amount.
@@Punk-possum i kinda agrée and kinda don't. I think it's likely you don't have any children, because it's exceptionally harder to raise a child to society's standards than people think. it's not as easy as anon forum commenters make it seem to be a kind, present, gentle, loving, compassionate and strict parent while also working part or full time and trying to live some semblance of a life yourself. Something has to give, and sometimes parents choose not to fight battles that lead to worse repercussions down the line. I can't necessarily blame them for that when everything else is overwhelming. As others have said, it's a wholly complex issue.
As a parent who works full time, studies part time, and lives alone with my child, yes. It’s hard. But we don’t eat junk food. I cook all my meals from the base ingredients. We eat fruit for snacks. Twice a month we make pizza. And I hear parents in two parent households bitch about how they’re overworked? Sorry, I’m not buying this. You’re lazy.
Hello Kiana, I am Mexican and here in Mexico mandatory labels with warnings of excess sodium, fats and sugars have been implemented. This helped unmask many products (such as juices and cookies) that are aimed at children by being sold as "healthy". Also in Mexico, the use of caricatures in packaging was prohibited for the same reason that you mention in the video. Childhood obesity problems still exist in Mexico but at least the labels help to choose foods.
@@GullibleTarget I know, are useful, but as someone mentioned it before, in Japan junk food is super striking but they have in general a healthy diet. I saw a documentary before that said that the problem was that in america fast food is more accessible and cheap than healthy food
@@miabunny715 how are they useful of they didn't change anything? I'm a bit older so I have seen the development of productplacement and advertising. Warning: I base my opinion on my own limited, western experience😉 but I will say that when 'easy' meals became popular; people were already warning and complaining. The fat and salt contents were already on the labels, we could read, we didn't require big warningsigns, we already knew that the processed foods were not as healthy as fresh produce. But supermarkets were coming up and you could buy a lot of food fir very little. The small grocer on the corner had to increase their prices to compete. Giving way to the fable that fresh food is somehow more expensive; it's not. They just found a cheaper way to sell food. This generated money and jobs.. but in the mid nineties people started to pick up on it. All it takes is bad publicity: Oprah Whinfrey was sued by foodcompanies for talking about not eating hamburgers. It backfired. Oprah became the 'hero' of the story and that threatened to sway public opinion from eating burgers. The mass producers and media then went on their 'green' campaign. McDonald's suddenly offered veggi burgers and salads, ready- made meals were advertised as 'cheap, healthy options' with Diet coke. Fast forward to today and fastfood places like McDonald's are now offering 'vegan' options-eventhough the producing of the healthy options is putting more strain on our environment as a planet. So you don't eat a cow but you are destroying the natural habitat of wild buffalo- in order to grow soybeans to make a plant based burger that tastes like a grilled cow. Same thing with cigarettes, we already knew it was linked to cancer. And people smoked everywhere. It wasn't until Phillip Morris got sued for 'giving people cancer' that the first warnings were issued. And people kept smoking! To this day! It only added 'vaping' to the mix as the 'healthy option'. My point is that, there is only one way to not get overweight/drunk/sick/high to the point of addiction: making up your own mind and deciding to do better despite upbringing, environment, culture or all the destractions and misinformation around you. It's very much like drug addiction. Addicts will always find a valid reason/excuse to keep doing what they are doing when the only cure is to just quit doing it.
Back in the early 2000s I remember reading an article written by a father who had to take a young child in for surgery to have teeth removed. Some adult teeth that had rotted inside the gums, causing a lot of pain. They had brushed the kids teeth, no fizzy drink, their mistake was giving the kid a bottle with fruit juice at night. They thought they were giving the kid something healthy. It was a warning to other parents, even though he knew people would criticize him. I remember it because he wrote of how guilty he felt for putting his child through something that could have been easily avoided. A stark comparison to parents who go on TV and blame their kid for not following a diet they are in control of.
I’m from Asia, moved to North America. I was shocked how people don’t know how to cook! People love frozen food. Loads of cheese, cream and butter. So freaking gross. I ate junk food but not like kids here. I’m shocked my large sized coworker says her kid is a picky eater, so her lunch is just cracker, cheese and sliced apple. Her kid is also big. It’s so sad. It’s parents fault but also the society isn’t helping either.
@@Jms6450 A comfortable life and better housing if you are willing to learn and work. People like to shit on the US but it's still one of the best options out there for diligent people with marketable skills.
As a Romanian, like Denisa and her family I can tell you also something that they missed. We are made to eat adult size portions from childhood and then the parents guilt you into having seconds even though in my case, I was literally shedding tears because I physically could not eat anymore. And then if that’s not enough, you have to leave an empty plate. I’ve done my best to keep myself healthy and I managed to so far, but I struggle every day with portion sizes and leaving a “clean” plate. I’m pregnant now, I’ll never do this to my child.
This is where calorie counting, despite its apparent reputation, is usually healthier than these far-off approximation methods that just complicate things. There you'll have it, black on white. That many grams of this, that many grams of that. That many calories per 100 grams, easy peasy. You'll be as consistent as you could possibly be.
@@TheBcoolGuy I know, but calorie counting is a foreign concept to people who physically force their children to eat and it’s still a struggle years later for those children who have become adults. I’m talking about the psychological impact, not the practicalities of such situations. Had reason been the base of this, these kids wouldn’t be obese to begin with.
@@TheBcoolGuy i lost 10kg in the first week when i started counting calories,than the next week another 7 kg..thats 17kg lost in 2 weeks...doctor forced me to eat more but fk that not gonna do it,imma stick to 2000 calories a day,was suprised how much healthy food you can eat with 2000 calories
@findAplaceToCallHome Your comment is interesting, is this a cultural habit or just something that your family practiced? Part of my family came from Europe after WW II and they wouldn't tolerate any waste of food. But fortunately the rule at the table was 'take what you want, but eat what you take.'
I'm a middle school teacher and I worked in a low income school for years. The obesity problem in those neighborhoods is WELL past 20%, I would say at least 60-70% of the kids in those schools are overweight. I would watch them eat hot cheetos and soda for breakfast, I would always try to talk to them but obviously they didn't care. Its so sad.
@@יהוהיהושוע-כ3ר Well the school breakfast wasfree for them and those were always a protein source and some fruit while the hot chips and soda had to be purchased but they still paid for the junk rather than eat the healthy free food
My family was a bit like Danisa’s. I was over fed as a child and then bullied by my parents (mum) to the point of developing an eating disorder. All of which was apparently my fault.
I was on the heavy side in terms of my weight at 15-16 years old. 2020, I was stuck at home and grieving the loss of my mom from cancer. I was not taking proper care of myself. I did however turn things around. I took the responsibility of helping my father cook healthy meals and exercising. Eventually I joined a gym. I’m now at a healthy weight and working towards an athletic lifestyle at 19. One day I plan on becoming an indoor cycling instructor to help promote this lifestyle!
I can attest that decades ago, fast food was an occasional indulgence. Now it’s ubiquitous, and we accept it as a “necessary convenience”. Highly processed food is literally killing us
@@TheBcoolGuy It's just the fact that it wasn't readily available or thought of as actual meal replacements. A burger and fries would be a treat not a daily staple. My heart just goes out to the young children who have no say over their food and just learn to eat what their parents eat.
My best friend worked at McDonalds and so I would go and visit her for her break. I started noticing the same families going very often, like regulars! This shocked me. I like McDonald's but I only go, I don't know, maybe twice a month? And most of the time it's only to get an ice cream cone. I don't understand how some people are ready to throw away their money all on fast food and how they feel good without eating anything healthy like fruits or vegetables. I would take raspberries over a plate of fries any day (ok except maybe costco fries but thats why I avoid them😂)
Whenever you see a question like, "Who/What is to blame?", prepare for an answer that is going to be far more complex than the question seems to want. It's almost never just one factor.
I mean, my mom was a huge health nut and I still ended up as an obese teen because highly palatable foods are way too incredibly addictive. She did everything right. Taught me how to choose the right food, taught me what good food looks like, how to cook, how to think critically about what I'm putting in my body, and I still failed in my teen years. The food industry definitely has some part to play, it's not ALL parents.
Oof i feel you buddy, it's so unfair that foods that taste good are bad for us, i wish in the future scientists would manufacture healthy foods that taste good
oh I feel you there. my parent taught me properly, and i managed well through college bc i was an athlete, but then, 🫥 then adult life hit me, then i got injured, knee surgery, long covid twice and 1 hospitalization. i gained ab 10kg. cleaning up my diet wasnt too hard, but with the dramatically increasing prices, it gets financially more difficult. inflation sure af hasnt hit McD the way its hit milk&bread 🤡 i use an app called Lifesum to help me shop groceries. u can scan the barcode, and it will gove you calories and a smiley on it nutritional value - the paid version will give you propber breakdown. its helped bc its not always easy to do the math on the nutri values on the packs, and its often misleading, and sometimes what seemed healthy really isnt, and what you thought was very unhealthy actually isnt that bad. i found out one of my fav childhood snacks (drinking yougurt) actually had *great* nutritional value and much less calories than i thought.
@@SMCwasTaken they already have in other countries like Japan and Korea. It's just countries like the USA don't consider salt, calorie, and carbohydrate intake as much as Japan
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When your a child, you rely on your parents to buy the food and what foods they allow you to eat, that is on your parents. Now when you buy your own food, then it's on you.
I feel for this girl, I've been in a similar situation with my family. Sadly my family has a huge junk food addiction. They convinced me for the longest time that our family was just bigger than everyone else. I was reticuled and made fun of all the time in junior high and highschool for my weight, now that I've stepped away from my family I see how delusional they are to their eating habits. When I get together with them, all they want to do is eat, or go out to eat. I also had to realize and admit to myself that I had an unhealthy relationship with food, that I would eat it for comfort when I was sad. I tried to tell my family that what they're doing to themselves is a problem, but they just got offended, then made every excuse they could to justify their eating habits. It makes me sad that I can not hang out with them as much anymore cause every time I do, I seem to let my old eating habits creep back. I love my family so much, I'm so scared that they're going to eat themselves in an early grave 😞 They won't help themselves, so I'm forced to sit here helplessly watching them all destroy their health
"it's a chore for her. Who wants to brush their teeth when they could be downstairs watching Peppa pig?" Ok but why not get her to brush her teeth WHILE she's watching Peppa pig? All you need is a tooth brush, toothpaste, a cup of water and a container to have them spit in and a napkin to wipe their mouth with. Make it a habit to do with something she actually enjoys like watching Peppa pig and that will over time become a habit independent of Peppa pig.
@@Sageddegas sure, but what they ment is that the mother has no argument as to why those two things have to be exclusive. The mother essentially blames Peppa Pig for her daughter not being able to brush her teeth. Which is absolutely ridiculous
My family blamed me harshly for my weight issues as early as 8 yrs old. I was made to eat different foods sometimes from everyone, cal count as early as 4th grade, and go on so many diets. All the while they filled the house to the brim with cakes and snacks, every lapse in diet meals for me was replaced with pizza/takeout/and stuff like "tater tot casserole". My relationship with food is absolutely abysmal, I still hide when I nab snacks from the kitchen even though its my own house.
That’s sad did you get on the right side of it? While I believe the industry and ultra processed food is to blame the parents should not be allowing access to this stuff!
So sorry. My parents let us have a 2 small cookies as an after-school snack or one bakery treat per week, but there were NO chips, no soda, no sugary snacks, no sugary drinks, no high fat no veggie meals in the house….so made it easy to resist and have the apple from the fruit bowl.
In The Netherlands there is actually a law right now that food is not allowed to be marketed towards kids. So no more spongebob cookies and all of that can be found in the supermarkets anymore. I have to say I thought it was a little sad at first, since for me it feels like childhood sentiment. But now I'm very happy this law is in place! :)
Yeah, right! Just try that in the good old USA and watch the reaction from the massive junk food industry. "Free speech", "Personal Choice" etc. etc. The Republicans would have a new religious crusade to yell about.
You've got some fantastic points, but I need to point out that a lot of British parents like these do not care about their children and do NOT want to be educated. I live in a British town with VERY obese families like in the doc and I work in a sweet shop, and I have had multiple fat families tell me they don't care that the kid's a sugar addict. These kids get pressured by parents to buy large milkshakes instead of regular. The parents hate that they themselves are obese, and slim themselves by fattening the children. I feel so so sorry for these children, I hope they make it out and lose the weight like I did!
I was near 200 pounds (I'm 14 btw) and I gain most of these pounds due to stress eating as my family were going through really hard times but now I'm starting to lose pounds and exercising went from 200 to 191 in around 3 to 4 ish weeks which I'm super proud of!
Good for you!!! Keep it up! 😊 Also, probably don’t listen to that other guy lol. He’s one of those loonies who goes around putting the same thing on everyone’s comments 🙄 You’re a kid. You’re still growing and need all the nutrients you can get! An overly restrictive diet could be harmful.
Emotional eating is really hard to handle for adults. Basically the emotional part of your brain develops before the part of your brain that handles self control so it makes sense why teens would have a particularly hard time with over eating. I hope it's going well and you're not being too hard on yourself. It's hard because your parents made it harder for you, both with life style and genetics but you have the power to make changes that will benefit your quality of life. Good job being conscious of it at 14.
I use to weigh 192 (my max) and about 14 months later I weigh 137. The hope is out there. I was 15 (now 16) and only 5'1 then and now I'm 5'3. I did it for health too and trust me it's worth it. Youve got this!
I remember my mom commenting on my weight when I was 10 years old. I only ate what she fed me and was obese. Parents that have food problems pass those problems on, sadly.
Unfortunately, a lot of parents don't understand appropriate portions of food for children either. I remember my childhood was dominated by my mother nagging me to finish everything on my plate before I was allowed to leave the table. When I complained I was full, but she would respond with a slap. It's no wonder I got fat, then my mother complained about that. By then the damage was done and my weight has yoyo'd throughout my life. (On a diet now because the recent heatwave we had here was so bad I thought I would die. I know it's my weight, so it has to go. But with a lifetime of diets, my metabolism is wrecked).
As someone who has battled weight most of my life I feel soooo sad for these kids. It’s really hard not thinking about food all the time - difficult to ignore sugar cravings. At 68 have finally found my answer to no alcohol and no cravings. Simply, more protein and fat.
I grew up a fat kid. I blame my parents and the food industry. Kids aren’t the ones buying the food for the house. Yes I asked for bagel bites and pizza rolls but it was my mom who put it in the cart and paid for it. My parents saw me gaining weight and being unhappy but never stepped in to help me. I finally started losing weight when I moved out of their house. It’s especially frustrating when the parents are overweight themselves and then act like they have no idea why their kid is fat.
The food industry has nothing to do with it, its entirely on the parents when it comes to obese kids. The food industry only sells a product, it doesnt force you to buy it.
Exactly, and it's especially frustrating when they blame it on genetics and say "we're just big-boned, everyone in our family is fat." Like did you ever think maybe that has to do with the adults sharing the same poor habits and passing that on to the kids?
I work in a school and one of the children specifically stands out. He is 2x the size of the other children in his grade, in height AND weight. He is not only far bigger than them, but a complete bully. He is never satisfied with the amount of food given and will terrorize the other children for their food and they will give him the food, sadly. The staff has tried fixing this issue, but it clearly started inside the home and not much can be done at this point.
I understand what you are saying but the fact that everyone on the staff seems to agree "not much can be done at this point" is self fulfilling. Maybe not approach him or the situation with the self defeating attitude. Kids pick up on that energy
What do you mean ''nothing can be done about it''? Its a kid. Seperate them from the others at lunch or something. I doubt there is nothing that can be done.
if he’s that much bigger in height as well that makes me think something genetic might also be going on. sadly if his parents already gave up on him idk what can be done
it's hard to help someone with an attitude like that, but I feel like what he needs is therapy, not just school counseling.. which makes it even harder bc therapy is expansive and he has to be willing. if he doesn't think overeating is a problem then he obviously doesn't realize he needs help
I understand that there’s only so much teachers can do to instill discipline in kids, but is there no way to at least separate this child from the others so he doesn’t bully them?? I know that sounds cruel in some ways, you don’t just want to ostracize a kid, but what about the other bullied kids? They deserve to be protected and not terrorized for their food.
I relate to the little girl with lots of teeth decay. My parents never made me brush my teeth when I was a child, so now I have horrible yellow teeth. I can't make friends because people see my teeth and get put off- No amount of brushing can reverse the damage now. It led to lots of insecurities and mental health issues at a young age, including a suicide attempt. Hopefully one day I can get teeth whitening treatment, but its so important for parents to properly look after their kids health and its frustrating to see so many who dont care and dont realise the damage they're causing to their child.
Same here, but I got cavities on all of my upper teeth as a child, which led the dentist to pull them all out at once (because my babysitter always took us regularly). Then, I smashed my jaw and had to get majority of my bottom teeth pulled out, so I had all of my adult teeth by the time I was like 10. After we moved, when I was 12, I stopped going to the dentist on top of not brushing my teeth for years at that point... At 17 my excruciating toothache led me to go to the dentist, and she actually yelled at me. She said we would need about 10 appointments to get my teeth healthy again. I started brushing my teeth, and I also do wish to get teeth whitening because even though they're not yellow, they aren't white either. Only one of my teeth on my right side is yellow and actually has a hole in it from idk what.
I do agree my bf has teeth issues his are caised by poor genetics (really some dental meds his father had to take with a 1 in 4 chance of bad teeth happening in offspring) hes very adamant about tooth care and has been for his entire 20 years of life but everyday they keep breaking more and more pain and rot (hes had caps and fills but it never helps) 😔 Hes 20 and looking to save for permanent tooth replacement for 75% of his teeth or go with dentures whatever we can afford when it gets to that point Its definitely his biggest personal demon and a huge cause of mental stress and physical pain (no amount of oragel or tylenol help hes tried and almost overdosed on tylenol)
When I was in Greece, the food quality was completely different! The meat, fish and vegetables were fresh and had no preventatives nor pesticides. I compared the Fanta in Greece to the Fanta in Canada where I live. It’s completely different. The Fanta in Greece does not have additives, dyes and fillers. I even took a look at granola bars and found the same thing! Even the taste of the food was different. Fruits were juicy and organic compared to the fruits in Canada. Most of the fish was wild caught. Part of the reason why people are getting obese has to do with what is going into the food. I do believe that it is up to the consumer to take personal responsibility for themselves too. My friend has this saying “if god didn’t wrap it, you shouldn’t eat it.”
I think a lot of parents use their kids as a way to vindicate their own eating disorder. I think the parents know what they're eating is unhealthy but because that's what their child wants to eat they'll justify buying and eating with them. Of course children want foods like that, that's how the food industry designed it.
Parents definitely bear much of the blame, but like you said it’s more than that. My mom works as a lunch lady at a middle school and since the lunch program was privatized, the “nutrition” of the average lunch eaten by kids there is appalling. They have extremely greasy, cheese heavy pizza available every day and surprise surprise, kids want pizza instead of salad. There are kids that eat it every single day, and multiple slices.
My high school also never provided attractive healthy alternatives. My lunches were burgers, pizza, and frito pie was popular. It’s just any chip of your choice topped with mystery meat and cheese 🤦♀️ all of these things are tasty, but none of them should be eaten every day for lunch. The schools are also to blame.
My high school limits pizza sales to once a week. Ramen (sales) is banned because too much sodium (you can bring it from home though.) Only baked fries in the cafateria. All schools should be doing this.
i'd say it's the parents but also the fact that junkfood is cheap, tasty and convenient (ish) whilst healthy food is expensive and hard to make+ less gratifying hormonally. make it so that healthy food is available, affordable and sold in pre made portions like junk food and it will be far easier
I know a family whose dad had a heart attack (fortunately he survived). The whole family changed their diet and starting working out together. My pastor, and his wife, started intermittent fasting about a year ago, (and they are looking great). If one member of a family needs to eat a certain way, it is very helpful and practically necessary for the other members to eat that way too.
Fatlogic corrupts everything. Today you'll get CPS called on you if your child complain you are "starving" them by feeding them correctly but they don't get 24/7 access to their favorite junkfood and made a sob story to a teacher.
I was always an obese kid, at 10yo I was weighing around 90kg, my parents used to take me to nutritionists many times, but always expected me to work alone, and solve my problem for myself. Now I'm 20yo and 140kg, since the pandemic I gladly was able to lost 20kg, but I keep working out everyday, and trying to fix my relationship with food. Luckly I never developed into any disases like diabates or something like that, but 'till this day if I say is my parents fault that I was weighing so much when I was so little they will always start an argument with me. It's me and me alone, and of that I know. Hope those kids have a better future than mine. Ps,: your videos are amazing, and been really helping me throughout my journey, thanks so so so much!!
An obese child is always the parents fault, excluding those children that have medical issues. Expecting a child to regulate themselves on their own is ridiculous. Dont let your parents shift their blame onto you 👍
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Hey Kiana! just shooting an idea your way, could make for a great video especially with your format. It's called 'Food deserts' to briefly summarize, it's a place with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, typically in low income areas.
Hey kiana, I’m a huge fan of your work and I want you to know that you have fans even from places as far as Saudi Arabia. I would love to hear your take on “what is a woman?” Documentary, your logical approach in tackling content is truly fascinating and I feel like you could offer a special perspective on the table. Good luck and keep up the good work ✨
I have just re-watched the first instalment of the old doc ‘weight of the nation - the consequences’ which is 10 years old, I don’t know if you have watched it but if not I highly suggest it, the clear stats given are indisputable. They also followed the health of children in a small town school right through to adulthood, fascinating and if that doesn’t scare the FA’s (not that they’d allow themselves to watch it) there really is no hope.
Here in Mexico, the government forced all food companies to add black labels to their products, indicating those that have excessive amounts of calories, sugars, saturated fats and sodium. All products that have at least one black label are prohibited from adding cartoon characters that may appeal to kids, and I honestly think it's one of the best choices they've made so far.
This needs to go world wide!!!
Yeah but obesity and food addiction sells and the majority of the world doesn't give a fuck about kids sadly
Not only do you get a lifetime customer for your junk food you can sell them "miracle weight loss pills" as they struggle with their own self control 🙃
I heard that children is not allowed to buy candy in stores if they're not in company with a grown up. Is that true?
We have that in Israel too just in red and green stickers, green for generally healthier foods and red for high sugar , fats and salt , helped many people to do better choices
That's a great solution!
I felt so bad for Denisa. Her family doesn’t put in any effort to support her, then blame HER, a kid, for not sticking to a diet? And not only do they blame her for not sticking to her own diet but they blame her for THEIR OWN inability to stick to THEIR diets? And after all that, instead of making any lifestyle changes or supporting her lifestyle changes, they just want a “quick fix” by forcing her into a surgery that she doesn’t even want??? Absolutely disgraceful. (Edit: fixed the spelling of her name)
i knowwwwwww Danisa's story was so damn sad. I hope she didn't get the surgery :'(
SHE needs to do this, SHE needs to have that...while we deep fry everything, load it up with more fats and carbs, toss in a little vegetable somewhere and eat it on bread.
It's the parents'job to monitor and help control their child's health. The parents must manage the diet for the child. All of it is a choice. For most people being fat is a choice no matter what kind of food is available.
@@Justin-fn1ey Agreed, but if they're going to eat mostly fat foods, not change their lifestyle and eating habits (I'm assuming you saw Dad), how can they expect HER to eat more healthy? Bake or grill the chicken, fresh steamed veggies, a little butter, salt, and pepper, some baked potatoes, fresh fruits, etc. Fiber, protein, fats, in balance. She can't do it on her own in that environment.
@@Justin-fn1ey I couldn't disagree more, try to live in a place that you don't have access to whole foods and have to eat processed food(aka food deserts) every day, i guarantee that you'd either be miserable or/and be obese. And not only that, but most of the people don't know anything about nutrition and how to lose weight, so when they search they might find some fitness influencer that will teach them some BS to try to sell some supplement/program instead of calories in/calories out. You have control for what you put in your mouth, but if you don't have enough knowledge you can't make smart choices.
I was raised by babysitters, as both my parents worked. The babysitters gave me junk food to keep me quiet. My parents felt so guilty about leaving me all day, they gave me sugar to make me happy. My addiction to junk food is my first memory. I was under the kitchen table with a tub of Cool Whip. I heard my Mom looking for me, so I shoveled that cream into my mouth so fast, I had the tub finished before she could find me. Even at that very young age, I knew that was messed up!
I had to have my baby teeth pulled because they were all rotten from sugar. Saturday morning was like church for me. The commercials were more entertaining to me than the cartoons. Every single junk food advertised to me, I begged for & got. I am now in my 50's, diabetic, in stage 3 kidney failure, in need of having both knees replaced and 300 pounds overweight.
Your video made me cry. I know the pain that awaits those children. My parents have apologized to me for raising me on sugar, but the damage is done. When I see parents with a cart full of Trix cereal, Pop Tarts & Sunny D orange drink, I want to scream. I feel parents in the 60's did not know the extent of the damage these new processed foods could do. But parents today have no excuse. The information is everywhere of how dangerous the junk food diet is.
I very much look forward to your follow up on this subject. I always enjoy your content & get excited when I see you have posted. As you can see, food and weight are my hot button issues. Thank you for always enlightening.
I'm sorry your parents weren't there for you, but did you ever try to get yourself help? Did you begin a health journey?
Thanks for commenting, great insight. I'm sorry for something you had no way changing.
@@lauraanne5175 I appreciate what you said. I have been trying to lose weight my entire adult life. I have had all kinds of therapy, went to seminars, joined every diet club known to man, and in desperation had gastric bypass surgery in 2001. I have lost 100 pounds 3 different times in my life, only to gain it all back plus more. I have lost 65 pounds recently and hoping I can continue.
Wishing you peace, happiness and health ❤
I was similar as a child but I'm only 21 now and I managed to lose weight myself but the sugar addiction hasn't disappeared, now instead of chocolate and coke it's energy drinks and bread, my mother was quite mentally ill and I think she was just being ignorant, she ate proper food but me and my brother never did, she never made us try healthier foods, I think they just think "it can sort itself out later" or something like that, or in these people's cases(my mum was always skinny) just thinking because they're obese at 40+ their kid would be okay too, or the thought stresses them out so much they don't even bother
This is so depressing,that woman who said she’d rather watch the TV than clean her kids teeth
She chose to have her child, you can't have an easy life and children grow up !
@@Smithjones12people should have to pass some test to have kids
What I don't get... Why not give the kid the toothbrush while she watches Peppa pig. Make Peppa pig the reward for brushing the teeth. If the little kid isn't brushing her teeth I'd hate to see how mum's teeth are, if the mum doesn't see it as important.
Sad
She said it from her daughters perspective, but yes she is horrible
The fact that Danisa's dad thinks you can eat whatever you want after gastric bypass is terrifying.
@@Kitty-no3de lol
Yep the poor girl will have years and youth shaved off her for NOTHING. That terrible surgery is a last resort not a miracle cure. It’s almost like killing yourself, least that’s how your body understands it, so it compromises other parts of your body to save itself and the stress will have adverse effects too. 😢
Sadly a lot of obese people believe this.
I don't intend this as an insult. . . is he mentally disabled? That's such a strange thing to hear from an adult, and a father!
Only like 30% of obese people with gastric bypass actually lose weight and become healthy. Because they think they can eat anything.
I was a chubby kid, but once my mom noticed that I was gaining weight faster and faster she changed the entire family's diet . we all got to a healthy weight because my mom realized that it was her responsibility to keep 7 year old me healthy. what the hell is wrong with these parents???
You’ve got a great mother
I totally agree. Some of these kids are eating 5x what I ate as a skinny child.
i had a non functional thyroid and my parents just chastised me and ignored my numerous health issues... aside from being an obese kid. seems like every doctor ignored obvious symptoms too
My first thought is WTF is Talula’s dad??? My guess not in the picture which means mom (Tho she needs to do better) is having a hard time being single mom
Props to your mom. That can't have been easy, but she saw what she had to do and did it.
I distinctly remember when I was 9 my doctor was afraid I was going to develop diabetes and my mom had the nerve to say to me “if you don’t care about yourself then I guess I don’t either. You have to lose weight” while she was providing me with pop tarts and ice cream for dinner
That is absolutely vile. Some people are just too stupid to be able to understand a child's brain and experience is not exactly what theirs is.
A social worker once told me a woman believed her child was trying to murder her because the mother kept the knives in a drawer close to the floor unsecured and the toddler kept opening it. Like she wanted the child taken away because she was afraid of it. Unfortunately most people are hopelessly stupid.
@@ReginaApple007 Hey, Cat. You ever hear of postpartum psychosis? Imagine if we actually had healthcare available to everyone and support for mothers. You wouldn't have to be a Cat and that lady could've gotten help, probably improving the child's life. 🤨
@@hattielankford4775 no matter the parents mental condition, it's literally almost NEVER the child's fault
@@бронза.вафля.конус I didn't say that at all, did I. In ADDITION to not blaming the child, if we actually provided more social support there would be better outcomes for everyone. The phrase "it takes a village to raise a child" directs us to help each other, not just judge each other.
@@hattielankford4775 Maybe, but parents are supposed to be responsible. If you don't know how to take care of your children, don't have them. We know today how difficult it is to raise children and that there is not enough social support to help parents. This should be taken into consideration when people decide to have children. People do not think enough when they make that decision and that's a real issue. So yes, we will judge parents who hurt their children and are not responsible. Why do people have so many problems with accountability and want to make excuses for everything. This will not help society to grow either.
The first woman blaming "thyroid" after we watched her chubby daughter tuck into a plate of food that woukd be too much lard for an adult... it made my skin crawl.
Right. In which of the 2 - 3 adult portions of food was this thyroid hidden?
What's wrong with lard? Used in moderation, it's a healthy cooking option.
Should be prosecuted for child abuse.
Look on her face too like she's proud of herself for figuring it out
@@DanCooper404Actually it’s the opposite, lard is way better for you than vegetable oils. You should be cooking all your food with natural animals fats.
Some years ago a law was implemented on Mexico and now it's illegal to advertise food products with friendly characters, for example there's a company called "bimbo" that used a bear to advertise it's products and they had to stop using it completely.
A lot of people went crazy cause everybody loved the bimbo bear and also companies were crying about how that law was going to affect their sells to kids, which was literally the whole point
Would explain why I saw some chocolates from Mexico that had those “Not recommended for children” signs on them.
that sounds like something that america would need
I love how all the packaged foods in Mexico have to explicitly state that they’re high in calories, sodium, sugar, etc.
It makes the packages way less appealing when there’s a big stop sign-shaped warning on them 😂
@@hellyeah_ellajane That should be international
I was wondering what happened to the bear.
My mom is grossly obese and has recently gotten to the point where she can't walk for more than 30 seconds without her knees and back giving her pain. It's excruciatingly painful to witness too. Devastating.
I'm female, 5"7, 207 lbs. I was at 234 about four months ago, but once I saw my mother's struggles I just had to do something because I didn't want to turn out like that. I've almost lost 30 lbs and I'm still losing, and I'll share how.
First, when I'm hungry, I remind myself that my hunger will be satisfied in the end no matter what I put in there. So I just choose whole foods instead of whatever monstrosity I'm craving, and easy - not hungry anymore.
Second, I drink a glass of water before I eat. The water fills you up some so you don't overeat and it keeps you hydrated.
Third. I allow myself to splurge on fast food once or twice a month, because if I didn't cut myself some slack, my diet would fail. What's life without treating yourself?
Fourth and final thing. Exercising. I'm not even doing that much - walking when I get the chance. Around the block or to work, to the store if I need something. And dancing in my room when no ones watching. Using my exercise bike for 10 minutes. That's it.
anyway this is my success story. I hope this helps somebody
It sounds like you're doing really good! Your diet sounds sustainable, so many people try to do heavy restriction with no success. The glass of water and occasional cheat day are solid advice. I think with your mindset you'll continue to do well!
Awesome, congratulations! 😃
Thanks for sharing
Good job! Keep it up!
I think this is helpful for everyone😊 im turning 17 in a view weeks and I felt sick and old because of my diet. 😅
I have been working out/stretching and eating more healthy since last monday and i feel so much better! I realised being healthy can be fun, like swimming with a friend
We can do this!💪🏼💪🏼
The way she says "thyroids" with such a smug look on her face because it completely absolves her of responsibility when really she's just lazy and is responsible for her child being overweight
Yes! The way she said it made it very clear she knew that was an easy way to write off her child's obesity. "Clearly, it's not the food she eats..." then they show a toddler eating from a plate full of more food than I as an adult, fully formed person would eat in one sitting.
It’s the fun new gotcha. People hate when I pull up the ATA site and show that weight isn’t actually a main side effect and only 10-15 pounds can actually be blamed purely on thyroid issues
The irony is that shes not wrong but uses it as an excuse to be lazy.
Yeah I've heard lots of big people give that BS reply. Like no, friend, you're eating twice as much as a normal weight person and barely moving
@@wonderingwonderer3747 she is wrong, thyroid can cause issues, not when it's made up to ignore any responsibility of feeding your child far too much
Because of my mom's narcissistic abuse and her purposefully overfeeding me, my father gained permanent custody of my siblings and I. At that time I was 16 yrs old and weighed ose to 400lbs.
The veil of darkness that my mom put over my perception of the situation (by telling me that I was not fat but healthy) was lifted when I went to my doctor's office for an update vaccination, and told me that I was borderline to getting high blood pressure.
That kick-started my motivation to lose the weight. I was trying to lose weight months before that appointment, but being told the harsh reality of my weight issue, but a healthy amount of fear in me. By the time I was 19 years old, I was at my ideal weight of 149lbs. No surgery at all.
I am now 37 years old, married with three daughters, and I have kept all that weight off. The support of my father, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and my doctor played a huge part.
your a failure as a person had no self control but you blame your mother?
I gonna tell you something, my friend men most likely in history they had been violent, ambitious, wicked, however but what is surprise me most of the time is when women are bad, and do things like that all I see is pure evil
Wow, so happy your father got you out of that environment!
You got lucky. Usually the mother goes to a judge to get a court order forbidding the father from weighing the kid and limiting their food intake.
You are lucky to have a wonderful father and a supportive system. I'm really sorry you had to experience that. I hope you're doing much better now. 💙
I love how she says "thyroid" with this strange, serene, "gotcha" energy. Like it's this total revelation that should instantly clinch the conversation.
never mind the fact thyroid issues can be a result of stress. your child is stressed??? looks great
That’s her having an aha moment because she discovered the end all to every convo she encounters about her obese child
@@kevinlegarrie7043 Eduction is the key to everything. And opportunities (or lack of). And support. It's not lazy if you aren't even aware (or in some cases actively prevented from) getting the help you need so you do whatever solves the immediate problem. (Yes, lazy parents are often used in these Channel 5-style documentaries because they appeal to the pearl-clutchers, but they do not make up the majority)
'I just like an easy life, doesn't everyone'......hmm simple answer, don't open your disgusting unwashed fishy flaps to every random lad, an learn to take better care of your kids that came out of your gigantic kfc bargain bucket between your legs 😂🤣
Anything to avoid facing the actual root of the problems
I know because I do it myself
The fact that those parents are pushing for their daughter to have a vital part of her body removed, while not fully developed yet, just because they lack the willpower to eat healthy themselves makes me sick to my core..
Its on the parents, if your kid is addicted to junk food and candy, its because you've fed it to them. They aren't the ones grocery shopping and cooking.
That shit should've been a test on whether to take the kid away or not, and for that doctor to lose their license. It should be illegal to make a kid have a procedure that isn't necessary for their health
They do not deserve kids
I understand you're sentiment their parents should be putting in more effort but you're thinking of gastric bypass not gastric band, it's a ring that goes over the stomach that restricts it's size nothing is being removed
Plus they clearly don't understand the nature of the treatment they're so desperate for her to have. Gastric bands can burst if you eat the wrong food! Plus if you eat too fast you can end up being sick. And no child should be having such major surgery. Given how rude some doctors can be to overweight adults, why can't a doctor actually speak realistically to these parents? The woman with the convenience food needs a damn good kick up her fat backside.
@@fiengle6876 Still, tweaking a kids organs because you yourself as a parent lack the willpower to eat healthy is so wrong and disturbing.
i’m 15, almost 16. i’ve always been overweight, not obese but noticeably larger than most other kids. my mother always blames it on metabolism, or “natural build” but i’ve taken the time to educate myself and have come to understand that it’s all about what you put in your body and how you live. in the past month or two, i’ve started buying my own groceries and i have been genuinely diligent. it’s not a quick process, but i am losing weight and gaining confidence. but most importantly, i’m becoming healthy. i don’t know why i’m sharing this, but i figured if any other kids in my situation knew that it was possible, they’d be inspired.
Keep up the great work. Our health is our own responsibility. Stay on course, stay determined, and you will achieve your goals.
Awesome!! I hope u can live a long healthy life
@@s0nnasauras630 thank you :)) same back to you
@@christopherthegreat4226 i have been and will continue! thanks :)
Well done👏🏼 it sounds like you're doing a great job and you should be proud🥳
The bullying is so hard and ruins kids confidence. I was an overweight kid. When I wanted to join a basketball team I got so scared that other girls would bully me because of my weight that i chickened out. Ironic, isn't it?
I mostly grew out of my weight once I was a teen, but now as an adult I still struggle with my self esteem because my dad and kids bullied and shamed me.
Sorry to hear that.
This is a tough one because no one should be bullied, but equally the whole fat acceptance thing has gotten ridiculous. I don't know what the solution is.
@hankjones3527
The solution is just to literally let people exist and help them lose their weight on their own pace, what’s so hard about that lmao? I see a lot of people who are trying to lose weight but are too afraid to excirse in public/gym.
When I was 9, my doctor said I was obese. He called my mom in and explain to her, saying this is a very serious problem and she need to do something about it. From then on, we never have junk food at home. Everything is home made. She even squeeze fresh orange juice for us often if we want to have "juice". Almost every evening, our family would go for a walk. Of course I was being a brat and complained about wanting to eat sweets, cookies, soda, fast food and all that. Now that I'm 30 i'm forever grateful for my mom. She did the hard thing, so I wouldn't have a hard life.
W mom
This makes me wanna cry.. I am so proud of your mom and so proud of you for realizing the benefit that she was trying to instill in you
These comments make me want to kill myself. Every time I read somebody has just a deeply good mother and doesn't appreciate it. You do appreciate it plenty in this comment, but you still don't.
@sunnyxdmc2283 i ain’t reading all that but sounds like a u problem buddy
Great Parenting! God bless her
I watched this show, there was a lady who takes a wheel chair with her to pick up her obese son from school so he doesn't have to walk home, when he is perfectly able to, it was absolutely outrageous. you get a glimpse of her at 0:10. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
British TV has a weird genre of documentary that's oddly popular, where they just follow around ignorant and usually poor people who make bad decisions in life without mentioning the wider societal context and influences that lead people to make bad life choices. They feel very predatory and like the point of the documentary is to just shame people and make the viewer feel better about themselves... its borderline bullying.
i watched it too. i HOPE LEONS OKAY :'( :'( that lady is extremely bad vibes
There's an extremely important point on your message: poverty. Poverty is strongly linked to obesity and it's not something you hear often.
It's a combination of poverty low iq. They understand price stickers but not economy or nutrition, so they're very easily exploited by the junk food industry.
Yeah, I think it's a bit of a scared straight situation too because the people on the show are the worst so no one wants that stigma for their own obese family with rotten teeth so they might change. That lady was lying to the doctor about the wheelchair and said the show made her look worse. And the mom with the kids with rotten teeth she couldn't bother brushing also couldn't even show up on time for her appointment. She had no job but someone kept making her pregnant, I think there was something wrong with her brain.
If they want these kids to get healthy they have to put the whole family in a program as all the families are obese too usually.
I wouldn't call it bullying but definitely exploitative.
God, I feel so bad for Danisa. Her parents are bigger children than her, literally blaming their kid for their lack of discipline while constantly overeating themselves and bringing crap into the house.
Right? It hurts to admit that your kids weight issue is your fault, but it hurts your kid even more when you pretend it’s theirs. I hope she didn’t get the surgery
She can’t buy the food. If you don’t buy unhealthy food the children won’t eat unhealthy food
I'm yet to see an obese child with skinny parents 🤷♀️ it's like that doctor said, today's society's attitude is that it's always somebody else's fault. We're just victims! No personal responsibility and accountability!
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Maybe keto high fat
Might work instead of high carbs high bread and high sugar
( egg.cheese.butter.mayonnaise .beef meat )
Peanut butter. Tachini butter. Nutella
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If you don't buy it, they can't eat it! ....durrrrrr
Some people really don't deserve to be parents
I think the saddest thing is the kids who identify their weight as a cause for concern, want to do something, and the parents just sabotage them.
Its a matter of of power of will
(proceeds to turn straight to mcdonalds himself)
Those parents are just vicious, jealous scum. They want to destroy their kids lives just to improve their own self esteem. They should be sterilized.
My mother lied to me for years, saying that I couldn't control my weight, it was genetics, there was no hope to lose it, etc. When I finally took a health class and found imout the truth, she would beat me until I ate everything she gave me. I wish people were a little kinder to fat people. Not everyone had a choice.
@@limendime3720 But it IS a choice even though some people don't realize it. I agree that people should not be unkind, but validating this illusion of not having the option to control your weight, does not help the person. I've felt it in my life so many times. Half of my adult life I've been over weight and believe it was my metabolism that stop me losing. The other half when I lost weight it was just the logical result of hard work. You have to recognise that you have the power to do it and follow good advice and not try to bring others into this false way of thinking.
@@commonenglishmistakes4360totally agree, genetics play a role but they dont just make you not lose weight, it just makes losing weight harder
She says at one point that she likes an easy life.
I like an easy life too and every time I think about it, I acknowledge how my “easy lifestyle” can’t support a kid.
You can’t have a kid and want things easy. Raising kids is hard, as it’s supposed to be. Pick one or the other.
Holy shit thank you for saying this. I also want an easy life, with lots of free time and disposable income, and you know what’s not on my list? Having kids or being a parent. Because you’re absolutely right, having kids and having an easy life are mutually exclusive
There are ways to make parenting easier without being horribly neglectful. I didn’t do this but I know some parents that have a special song or video they play as their child brushes their teeth. There are all sorts of way to make things easier but parenting is never easy and it really shouldn’t be.
"I want an easy life so I'm willing to sacrifice my kids for it"
Definitely. I don't have kids because I'm not ready to give up laying in bed and playing video games or late night McDonald's runs.
She won't think her life is so easy when she can't roll herself over in bed because she is 400 lbs though right?!!? I struggle with saying no and sometimes cave because I feel bad for my neighbors that my son is having a fit because he wants some pringles but if my son was suffering because of how many pringles he was eating I would just stop buying them.
I remember being obese as a child. It was definitely a money/convenience issue. My mom didn’t have the time, and could not regularly afford fresh fruit and vegetables, so our food was more on the fattening end. However, once I got to middle school, her and I had a talk and we both agreed to go on a diet together (she was also obese at the time). We tried harder and eliminated junk food from the house and bought healthier food items at as little cost as possible. We both lost the weight. Teamwork 😊
Congrats to you both.
That's nice! Doing it together must have been a great motivator!
Well done.
Veggies do tend to be cheaper than junk. Fact.
That’s wonderful that you were able to do that with your mom! I find that really touching. Good for you both!!👏😊
10:35 this broke my heart :( I find it disturbing that these kids don't drink water its always juice or soda.
These parents are the perfect example of “it’s everyone’s fault except mine”
These are good parents, you are delusional. Every kid should eat treats to be happy
@@STANKORachevI’m stunned right now, yes kids can eat treats or fast food once in a while that’s fine but this is way too much
@@Freyalovesmusicals nope, sugar promotes happines and growth, while fat makes you well... Fat. And we all know that 90% of the protein is toxic
It is parents fault, and schools , government, no physical education in schools , children needs exercise, not video games
It doesn’t effect me so it doesn’t matter, classic example of this modern world
That's a classic case of "All childrens deserve parents but not all parents deserves childrens"
This is such an accurate quote
Right! Always good to remember this🌟
Also, the plural of "child" is "children". Not "childrens".
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Anyone who deserves the honorific of "parent" DOES deserve a child! Not all ADULTS deserve a child.
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Maybe keto high fat
Might work instead of high carbs high bread and high sugar
( egg.cheese.butter.mayonnaise .beef meat )
Peanut butter. Tachini butter. Nutella
🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷👋👋👋👋
I'm not sure who I'm agry at most, Danisa's parents or their family doctor. How gastric bypass surgery is even on the table for a MINOR is beyond me. Especially after hearing how her dad explained that with the surgery it's an easy fix because they won't have to change their dietary habits. Who on earth informed him on that? That's the biggest joke I've ever heard. If you don't change your ways, within 2/3 years after surgery, you'll end up just as obese as you were before, because surprise surprise, the stomach just stretches again. Docters and dietitians know this damn well, so that this child is even being considered for surgery is absurd and not in her health interest at all.
My adult neighbor got bypass. I wondered about how she was doing (she's lost a lot of weight) and she said the trickiest part was making sure she was getting the diet right. She was eating all the right things and the right amounts, and the weight slipped off. One thing that I've noticed with a lot of families and businesses that's just ridiculous is portion sizes. When families are like "hey, they eat a well rounded meal with veggies for dinner", okay, but then you look at the plate and they've been given as much food as the adults, and they might only be 5 or 6 years old. There's a reason "kids meals" exist (other than the cheap toys) in restaurants: they don't need to eat as much, but the parents haven't seemed to figure that out.
And if they're also members of the "Clean Plate Club", they're gonna teach their kid how to override their "full" cues and just overeat. I was one of those. I'm actually about at the point where I can listen to my body and understand when I'm truly hungry...30 years late. Now it's tricky in another sense: I have a hard time making myself eat enough calories by pure accident, because I don't live to eat out of boredom anymore. Once I really started paying attention to serving sizes, it was MUCH easier to start seeing the scale numbers go down.
They were looking into the gastric BAND, not gastric bypass.
@@lainiwakura1776 oh, always get those two mixed up. That's actually what my neighbor got: the band. She said eventually she could get it removed. An aunt had to get the bypass. My bad.
When i was 15 i went to a doctor seeking for help to lose weight. The only thing he said was "if you gain 20lbs more you'd be suitable for a bypass surgery". Lucky me, my mom told him he was crazy and take me out of there
I was only 180 lb at the moment ando went down 40 on my own
@@fransilva4162 Nice. Been over 200 for over 20 years now. Ticked off about it. But finally had to buckle down and educate myself. It's the re-learning my hunger cues, only really eating when I'm hungry (or something light in case I'm not), working around iron deficiency, and re-arranging my schedule to make exercise easier to manage.
Scares me that even a doctor would be open to offering a "quick fix" (a bloody expensive one at that). Yeah, I'm taking the slow road, but it's moving. Hugs and congrats.
It's the parents' responsibility. I'm a father of two (Spain) and we always spend around 10 hours a week cooking fresh and natural recipes because it is our responsibility to rise our kids healthy, and because we live them.
That little girl is really self-aware to realise and admit to herself that she’s addicted to junk food, and her honesty is endearing. She’s got a far better attitude than her parents, and I hope she manages to get healthy!
True, i know obese adult people that are obviously addicted to junk food but dont admit it
Its hard with parent like that
@@enriconaves6501 Everything starts with admitting you have a problem. It gets easier from there.
She’s just parroting what she’s heard without a proper understanding.
When she gets her own life, then she can lose weight and be happy
This is what happened to me. By the time I was 11 my body was literally covered in stretch marks. As an adult, I have always been a healthy weight, and eat very clean, but my body is permanently disfigured because of being obese as a child. I’m 27 and have never worn a bikini, been seen naked by anyone ever, or been even remotely comfortable in my body, even slightly. If your child is obese, it is YOUR responsibility to correct that in a gentle, non-traumatizing way. Kids don’t have the facility to understand proper nutrition. If you’re having a kid, educate yourself on nutrition and take proper care of the life you’re responsible for. Ignorance is nothing but a choice
Don't stretch. Marks go away though?
I had stretch marks as a child from when I went through a growth spurt but they went away over time.
I'm sorry you feel so ashamed of your body, but as a new mother who has a ton of stretch marks I want to tell you you shouldn't. The stretch marks are part of your story, of your triumph. You could also look into getting tattoos to obfuscate the stretch marks, make your body pretty in its own way, that's what I did with my upper arms and now I'm comfortable wearing sleeveless shirts.
@@pinkdiamond1847 no they definitly don´t go away. They are tears in an underlayer of the skin witch simply can be repaired. They may fade over time but never will go completely. Not even with surgery.
I have the same problem as R T: age 12 I already had stretch marks on the thighs, butt and bust. nearly 17 years later and they are still visible eventhrough I am nearly underweigh now and tried to get rid of them since 10 years.
Thank you for your comment check out laser surgery that can be affective to get rid of scaring.
Massage the stretch marks with coconut oil or vitamin E oil. This activates the tissue to repair, I was a kinda hardcore bodybuilder from 20-23 and got a ton of stretch marks along my chest and arms from growing so quick and also from being hurt and losing a bunch of size so I can say for sure it works!
Im a paediatrician and the amount of willpower my colleagues and I had to have to stop ourselves from screaming at these parents. I agree with what the first guy said, you cant really outright say it to their faces, but find a gentler way of saying "yup, you fucked up your kid's health"
the amount of times parents come in saying the child's the problem, and then exert that same behaviour or worse themselves 🤦♀️
My current girlfriend is one as well and I admire her so mutch. It's not a job for me. Not at all. I don't have neither the academic, even less the patience to do this. I will end up hitting someone. At least cases like this are rare. But she called the social services many times. Here theses cases are taken very seriously.
Just watching these shitty parents infuriated me.
I wish I had someone to stand up for me when I was obese by the age of 9. I was torn to pieces in school from the bullying. My parents didn't help me to diet, they had my blood tested for my thyroid. I lost all the weight by 16 but the damage was done, I'm traumatised by my childhood and it still effects me today.
@@mikebarry1988 im so sorry to hear that. But believe me, we try our best to help but there's only so much we can do in a few minutes of consultation. It really starts at home. Ive laid out all the things that could happen to the child, but some parents would just like to chuck the blame on something "they have no control of", like thyroid disease, etc. I hope youre in a better place now!
In Britain we used to get nutritious homemade school lunches. We used to get roast beef, veg, gravy etc. Now they have chicken nuggets and fries - warmed up. Processed food and fast food are FAR cheaper than buying nutritious healthy foods.
Give the education system enough money to have the spare for healthy lunches
@@chipbutty3645the education system barely has enough to feed them full stop
@@hellohaveagooddayThere are alternatives though. Like making the kid’s own lunch for them and this can work by never introducing junk food to them in their life so they will grow up having an irk against junk. Last resort would be to privately educate your kid or homeschool them since public schools are awfully funded and feel like a prison.
You wouldn't get fat if the portions were smaller. Therr is nothing magical about the calories in a chicken nugget.
No, it's not. My weekly food budget for myself is 40 dollars (just under 32 pounds). I do not buy processed foods. If it's ready to eat after a minute or two in the microwave, I don't buy it. Fresh/frozen veg and fruit, potatoes, dried beans, rice and pasta make up 90% of my diet.
This just makes me so mad. It's revolting. They're supposed to provide her a better diet, and everyone who struggled with overeating/bingeing knows that it's IMPOSSIBLE to have control around things that are literally addictive.. of course she can't stick to a diet if you keep eating junk food in front of her.
her parents clearly have the same addiction. so why are you so why be revolted when they have an aaddcitiin themselves. that's silly
Yup. I'm trying to lose weight. My parents eat garbage. I can easily avoid buying swiss rolls and cookies, but if it's there, I can down an entire pack of chewy chips ahoy in a day.
My mom CONSTANTLY complains about being fat, yet she's the one who keeps buying all this junk!
@@truthspeaker8863 because the parents have an obligation to do what they need to do to overcome their own addiction in order to help their child overcome hers. It’s not easy- I, a drug addict in recovery, know how difficult it is. But it’s reasonable to be disgusted by the parents for not recognizing their own problem and taking real action to deal with it. They’re pushing their daughter to have a major surgery that she doesn’t want to have so that they can AVOID having to actually deal with their own problem.
@@WobblesandBean good luck! I taught my mom a few things about food nutrition, we agreed to help each other out and it's working! It's a very slow process though, so it takes a lot of patience, but it's worth it :)
@@WobblesandBean my parents have the opposite problem and have nothing home lol, i’m not obese or struggling with my weight.
but like if i didn’t have an extremely quick growth spurt of like 20 cm in 3 years i would’ve been fat.
In the netherlands it is not allowed to use ‘child idols’ on food or to make any form of marketing directed at children till the age of 7. And you can only use marketing for food for children till 12 years old if it complies by the health standards. I did notice the shocking difference for the foods you showed and made me realize you indeed no longer see those here. 🤔 a good change!
I think it is a rule in the EU.
@@DominicMazoch might as well. Sometimes it is hard to know what is country specific and what is european 😅
"That one hurts me. That one hurts me. All of them hurt me." That quote in particular got me. Poor babies.
Same, I almost never tear up from videos but that one got me. 😢
It’s so sad, people were mad at my parents for the way they were so particular about the foods we ate, it was all organic and Whole Foods, seed crackers and healthy snacks…. But no one blinks when these kids are being fed junk
None whould either. They should blink at the portion sizes.
As someone who suffered from childhood obesity I can say that yes its with the parents. For me the diet didn't stick until I went to live alone. My step father is one of those "I eat only one thing" person and I didn't want to stress my mother in making me something separate.
Somehow I managed to dodge all the obesity related issues.
I had to fight to have smaller portions than my dad... who is 6'2"... it just didn't make sense. :/
@@badateverything5392 My dad was the same way. For some reason he would be mad that I asked for smaller portions, but then also mad if I didn't finish all my food. And his excuse was "everyone else is eating the same". But I was the only in the house that's under 5ft tall lmao
My adult height is only 4'9", luckily I managed to just end up a bit overweight and am trying to lose it now. But it could've been much worse if I wasn't lucky enough to know better. I skipped a lot of meals because of that. It was the only way not to get in trouble.
@@nekokitty90 it was very mature of you to figure this out by yourself. Keep it up ❤
And on the flip side of it, my mom didn’t cook/grocery shop enough, and the food I did get was always packaged/frozen crap from either her or my school, which never kept me full, so I developed food insecurity which lead to binge eating and eventual weight gain and THEN eventual anorexia, which was really severe. The only examples of eating I had were her picking at small amounts of food and barely eating any of it or my dad binge eating cereal and ice cream and then going on crash diets every time he gained weight.
I’m doing great now though. Healthiest I’ve been in my life. I eat healthy 90% of the time and still have snacks and treats without overdoing it. I eat a ton of whole, organic, filling foods and have learned to cook healthy things that I love.
When I worked for a family themed water park, it was absolutely mind blowing to me how obesity ran through families and just how prominent it was. If the parents in the family were overweight, all the children were too. And when I say all children I mean ALL children, the 4 year old the 10 year old and the 16 year old alike. It’s not a crime to be overweight but it’s so important to teach you kids healthy eating habits, because usually keep these habits for life.
I'm guessing you mean this for parents on the obese end of the spectrum. My parents were a little overweight when I was kid, but myself and my brothers were FAR from it. I know plenty like this. I even know families with obese parents where the kids are normal. However, I certainly seen families like you mention too.
Well the parents teach their own bad habits. I mean, yeah it's partly genetic...
But it's more of the environment.
If the parents have an unhealthy relationship with food, they're probably going to teach their kids an unhealthy relationship.
1-) Oh you're sad? Here have a cookie.
(*rather than, do you want to talk about it?)
2-) Oh you're bored? Let's go get some ice cream.
(*instead of let's go for a walk or why don't you go play outside?)
3-) If you'll behave ill stop by McDonald's on the way home!
(*and not behave and I'll buy you a toy or
I'll show you how to fingerpaint or I'll read you a book at bedtime.)
4-) Clean your plate! If you eat all your food, THEN you can have dessert.
(*You're full? Okay great! Go get ready for bed! Kids really don't need dessert anyway but a bite or two is okay... just not every day and not after forcing even more calories.)
***Ntm how they give their kids food to babysit them. They'd rather hand them a bag of chips than interact with their kids.
That's sad. I'm an overweight mom but my kids are normal/healthy weight. I wouldn't let my kids eat the way I do. They've been taught healthy eating habits. My unhealthy eating habits are mine!!!!
The only thing I want to change is my ongoing depression and dependency on food. I don't understand parents who don't teach their children healthy eating habits 😢
@@nokha4602 Actions speak louder than words. Fix yourself to help your kids.
It gives the non caring obese parents an out: look its hereditary.
Kind of horrifying hearing a young child describe her food addiction because I struggle with addiction myself as an adult, and it seems impossible sometimes now, I can't even imagine what it must be like to grow up with any kind of addiction as a child. Also to hear her casually saying she might die before she's thirty. And meanwhile every child cereal mascot is still right there. It's like we live in a parody of our own society.
Addiction is often correlated with drugs and crime. But in my experience, it really is a mental condition. There is no difference between a crackhead spending money on crack rather than food and a sugar addict spending money on a whole cake rather than fruit and veggies. I deal with substance abuse and I find it shocking how similar the thought patterns of over eaters in this docu and drug addicts are. The same hopelessness, excuses and futility. Almost accepting that they will die young because they see no way out of the habit. It's difficult as it is for drug addicts but imagine being a food addict: your drugs are being sold everywhere. Legally. Advertised ad nauseum on every media outlet. "Buy Coca Cola"/this sporting event was sponsored by Pepsi/McDonald's is planting a tree for every burger you buy/" The Olympics games even had beer brands as official affililates, indirectly advertising alcohol consumption. We are inundated with the image of the crackhead being ignored on the streets and say:" they have to fix themselves". But what about the billions of sugar addicts who are told by society to consume even more? And when they do try and do something about it: they are judged when opting for bariatric surgery.
The only ones who win are those that fuel the addiction and those that cure the side-effects of said addiction. Food an pharmaceutical companies.
breaks my heart to see children like this
It should be considered child abuse but oh us humans insist that we can’t we say anything about anyone let alone look at the collective bad things we do because somehow humans are sacred…go figure
One mom just plain REFUSED to give her son a pear!
I can't understand how these parents could blame their children for that. You are the one preparing or ordering the food!
What do they expect the girl to do? Watching their parents eating a burger while she's enjoying an apple? And they are saying it's her lack of willpower. Oh god. Not everyone should be parents.
No shit, why do you think there are people kidnapping children from parents? Or wait no that's not safe either.
@@BlackbeltHitoshi If anyone tried to kidnap these children, they'd probably break their backs.
You're right! I remember someone lamenting how they had to take their child to "taco hell." I couldn't help but politely point out that as the parent, they could decline the request. It's sad, because now those kids are 15 and 20 and both overweight. Sad.
Burgers are not bad for you (unless you have it with sugary ketchup or bread ect.).
That's without mentioning, where is the kid going to get an apple in the first place? As the one with the money, the parent is the one who has to buy healthy food. As the one who knows how to cook and can handle things like knives and stoves safely, the parent is the one who has to cook healthy food - you can teach your kid how to do it themself if you're going to be that lazy, but you still have to start, and you still have to buy it.
Go look at the baby food in the grocery stores and MOST of them have hidden sugar in them. They hook them onto sugar at 6 months. I didn’t give refined sugars to my son until he was almost 3 (had to battle a lot of judgmental people, people who offered him lollipops, and junk food at school) and while he does enjoy some sugar every now and then, he still enjoys his veggies and fruits. I would say he has a good relationship with food.
But all of that being said, people hand out sugar to kids like crazy (with good intentions) and the food industry hides them in “healthy” baby food. Its not convenient. It’s an up hill battle and not everyone will like your parenting style.
That's why I made my own baby food (I had the fortune of having time and a blender) because I didn't trust the stuff st the store, and the brands that dont add any ingredients are very expensive.
Every daycare my kid has gone to has given him candy without asking permission.
They actually start even younger than 6 months; there are large amounts of sugars within baby formula as well. My niece had severe acid reflux, starting at a week old, and my sister-in-law developed severe postpartum depression/anxiety that required medication, so between the two, breastfeeding wasn't an option. Various doctors handed my sister-in-law different types of baby formula, ALL of which had some form of corn syrup within the first three ingredients. We ended up having to import formula from Germany! Literally all of the FDA-approved baby formulas have high levels of processed sugars, and if you choose to step outside what has been approved, you risk receiving ridicule from your baby's doctors. It's horrifying! I still can't believe that doctors and the FDA are endorsing pumping helpless little infants full of this garbage. It's literally setting kids up for failure.
@@kimberlymoore7859 corn syrup and seed oils. Those are the two main ingredients of baby formula in the US. I was blessed that I could breastfeed my children. Their aunt noticed how they were never massive "sumo babies" like her friends' formula fed kids. Also their poop was less gross and smelly.
I was 11 years old, very overweight, one day I told my parents to not bring anymore chocolate into the house.. I don’t know where this came from, but I went to a healthy size after that after months of just eating the regular food that my parents made and no junk food, and puberty helped elongate me as well. It was surreal. Even today my mum thinks about that event.
If I say that my parents are gonna think someone said something like, I just wanna healthier and longer life- lmao
@@BrainsofaWeirdArtist play psychological warfare. Whenever they say:"you're just saying that because of someone else"- just plainly tell them: "The only one concerned with this, is me. It's my body, my health. I have an issue and as your child, I am asking my parents to help me in not eating unhealthy foods that make me fat; it is up to you to heed that call for aid or ignore it; you are the parents after all. But please-as your child-will you be so kind as to let me know?so I can mentally prepare myself for support from my own parents or a lack thereof? Good day, Mother and Father and thank you for your consideration".
@@GullibleTargetOk thanks!
same story with me. At 17 i told my mother i was going to get fit and if she continued to bring processed food to me, cakes and chicolates i would throw them to the garbage. She didnt believe and i threw them away. She learned the lesson and i dropped 20kg in 3 months and had the life i ever dreamed about. My mother was very poor and starved during most of her life so she thought giving me cakes and candys was an expression of love...
Blame is unimportant. solutions are what's needed!
Eat less of whatever you currently eat. There you go.
You're one of the few "fat content'' creators that looks beyond, callories in callories out. As a former fat kiddo, thank you. This video is awesome.
*calories
She's a behavioural psychologist if I remember correctly, I don't get why that area isn't more involved in weight loss and health in the first place, if there were a psychologist with dieticians and doctors I guarantee the results would be a lot better
@@jessica5470 Because it's a taboo subject nowadays. No wants want to address Obesity in a negative light in the mainstream.
@@rikumajumder1558 what are you talking about? they do it all the time
@@carbonatedPigeon There are literally clinically obese people posing in the front page of Sports Magazines nowadays.
Some added context:
Back in the 2000s, there was this wave of pseudo-documentary tv shows in the UK, particularly channel 4, that was always framed as a serious insight into a serious topic, but was really just an excuse to gawk at the poor, the stupid, the different and the unattractive. They can offer some genuine information on a topic, but the main purpose of these shows were essentially to be a televised circus, full of clowns and freaks for the public to throw popcorn at. That’s why they don’t mention the food industry, because they don’t care about why the kids are obese, they just want to show fat kids and bad parents for shits and giggles.
Litteraly those documentaries were ruthless but I would call them Docudrama's their purpose is to entertain not really inform same with showing people who are on benefits never bothering to actually tackle the issue (because if they actually did it wouldn't be entertaining) but to find the most extreme people in that group and dramatise them so people can look down on them feel better about themselves and think that they're actually being educated on that specific group of people who ever they may be people on benefits,obese people,working class people ect
The How Clean is Your House show was like that too. I admit to watching it, and I always felt really sorry for the people featured, it was always clear they usually had major mental health problems: depression, anxiety, hoarding, among other issues. That was rarely mentioned though, and it was mainly just Kim and Aggie being disgusted, scaring, shaming and humiliating the people they were supposedly there to help.
Sounds like the modern day TLC channel.
Would a show like Supersize vs. Superskinny fall into that category?
@@muffinman472
I feel like modern day documentary channels are a bit better...
They've deffo got better!
This gives me flash back to Jamie Oliver, who tried to change school lunch in the uk. Back then he solely blamed the food and then discovered that parents left and right sabotage the project smuggling soda and junk food in to the school for the kids.
That sounds interesting.
Do you have a name or link to a source?
I would like to read/see more about that.
@@auraluna7679 just tipp in Jamie's school dinners I think it has only one seasons in one of the episodes a mother feeds her baby cola and a regular seen in almost every episode is that parents delivering fast food to the kids through the school fence!
A scene like that was in Morgan Spurlock's SuperSize Me. I wonder if it was a clip from your referenced show....
Whether it was from your show, or was from something different, it was shocking!
I was a child in school when they ran that programme. It was done in completely the wrong way. The food was all switched out to salads but they were the blandest shit salads because the kitchen team had no imagination whatsoever. The prices of the food also went up, and they took out all snacks that were deemed "unhealthy". It was also highly invasive as we were made to create food diaries of what we were eating at home as well. I get the motivation behind it was good, but it made healthy food seem like a boring chore and made us desperate to eat something interesting.
Sound like what happen with Michelle Obama. She wanted to change the school food program and some areas were starting to change and then parent started to whine just because he was black and a Democrats. Food in in USA schools now is Hot dogs on Monday, pizza on Tuesday, hamburger on Wensday, ect.
As always, you've presented an interesting video. I believe it is the parents' responsibility to nurture their kids properly but it is very hard to do so given the state of the modern food industry. The 3-part documentary series "The Men Who Made Us Fat" provides insight into how this all came about several decades ago. Being a parent who's trying to control their child's diet today is like trying to use an umbrella to protect one's self against the outflow of a fire hydrant. It's absolutely predatory.
Growing up, I was overweight, and my family and doctor were constantly putting me on diets. My family repeatedly belittled me for my weight and shamed me when I couldn't stick to a diet, yet they never changed how they ate. I remember them taking me to McDonald's. I had to eat a salad while they ate burgers and fries. We had all the diet foods, but I never saw any of the diets modeled by the "responsible" adults in my life. I started BED recovery in 2021 and entered a eating recovery center for 6 weeks. I've been doing the work and finally able to throw off the blanket of shame placed on me as a child. I'm not 100%, but I'm in a better head space now when it comes to my body and food.
I get it, man! It’s hard to try and change your eating habits when your family is constantly surrounding you in the foods you’re trying to avoid, and still making you feel bad about yourself (even though they can be to blame tbh)!!
I’m glad it sounds like you’re doing better for yourself, though. Keep at it!! :]
I had this exact experience and I feel you. You didn’t deserve that hun. I remember my fam used to eat all the bad stuff in front of me and laugh bc I was out on a strict diet because of prediabetes from the food we kept consuming .seriously wasn’t fun!
If parents don’t buy food, the kids won’t get it. It’s totally on them to buy good foods even if its hard. I feel so bad for Denise.
This isn't necessarily true. Kids can get junk food from many sources outside the home. Birthday parties, vending machines at school or the mall, pizza fridays at school or afterschool events, well-meaning family visitors who give candy, movie theatre dates with friends, the list goes on and on. My parents never bought too much junk food but I remember eating all kinds of gross cheap snacks when I was growing up. Thankfully my rational logical side ensured that I talked myself out of any serious bad habits into adulthood.
@@nadias6435 yeah... no. Your parents play a huge part in how much you weigh as a child. Do you know why you had the "rational logical sense" to not eat so much? Because your parents taught you so. They conditioned you well. You should thank them really.
Occasional junk food or even a light unhealthy snack a day is not going to make you obese as a child. A child does not have the means to go to parties or the movies every day or even every week. They certainly don't have the money to buy whatever food they want too. But if the parents do not have any limits on what their child eats and don't teach them any better, yeah it's on the parents for the weight issues. Not the child.
my mum gave me good food, hell, my siblings have more variety in unhealthy foods than I did as a kid
they're super skinny and I was overweight.
how could that be?
presumably due to factors like my parent's age when they had me, the factors of the womb conditions when I was a foetus vs. when my siblings were foetuses.
What about after we were born?
I was raised to only be able to have dessert if I ate everything on my plate (my siblings are not) and apparently dessert was rare when I was a kid.
My siblings have dessert every day, ice cream usually.
What about school meals?
I was on school dinners my entire primary school and had packed lunches as a teenager - ham sandwiches, carton of juice, and a chocolate bar or a slice of cake, granted, no fibre, but protein, carbohydrates and a source of fruit was there
but my mum gave me the same portion sizes now as I had at about the age of 1 tbh, an adult's portion really, even on fruit, veg and all of that
but of course, when I thinned down people were still saying I was fat so I drowned my sorrows by binge eating, so from college to university I went from being 5' 3" and 10st (just about healthy bmi) to being 17st 8lbs
in the span of about 5 years
@@nadias6435 occasional junk food and candy is nothing bad lmao
Kids will totally get junk food if parents don't buy them. But they will get significantly less junk food and a little bit of junk food every now and then is totally fine.
Exactly what happened to me. Dad too busy working all day and a mom who never struggled with weight so she just gave us bowls of chips with every meal and constantly encouraged us to eat more for the sake of "love." And then they ask their kid why he's gaining so much weight with not even a kernel of self awareness to be found. Felt worthless when I was a kid and never approached a girl. Lost weight at 28 when every socially significant thing in my life (high school, college) had already passed me by.
but your username man
It's never too late and you're never too old 👍
You have a thorough understanding of what to learn (since it wasn't taught at home), you have greater empathy, you'll do great in applying yourself in future, like social interaction but better. You have now evolved.
Let me tell you a little story about a boy named Dwight. He was from a fairly poor Kansas family, and his mother was too busy caring for a sick sibling to be bothered with things like cooking, so Dwight did the family's cooking, and even sold homemade tamales door to door to earn his spending money. Eventually he married a lady from a well-to-do family called Mamie, and even though she learned to cook somewhat, Dwight always remained the real cook in the family.
28 and every socially significant thing has already passed you by what??????
I grew up in the 80s, and I remember a few chubby kids and most thinned out by high school with a few remaining heavy or kept those bigger bodies that aligned with their family genetics. However, by the time my son was in school 2001-2018, some kids were the size of teachers in grade school and, by graduation, looked older. 🤷🏾♀️
The parents are always too blame. When I asked my mom for an extra Pop Tart, she said, "No." Control and healthy eating habits start young.
Exactly. Parents can make any excuse they want, but at the end of the day, it's the parents who choose what their kids eat and how long they can play outside and exercise. Processed foods make matters worse for children with lazy parents (because without it, even the selfish parents have no choice but to give them healthier and homemade food), but that's only if the parent actually buys said processed food.
The parents are to blame but it does'nt change anything , parents with lower education, poor social skills, their own personality disorders have always existed. Obesity in children is new. What's interesting is to try to understand how marketing and the agro industry work with bad parenting to end up in this situation. I honestly don't know what should be done to adress this situation , just blaming parents wont do anything for the kids, plus I think these kids are not only obese but they also have all the other problems poor parenting brings in : bad school results, neglect, lack of discipline and purpose, bad education, low impulse control , and in the end low IQ.
Don't feed them junk like pop tarts in the first place. never
Exactly! I would have been very fat as a kid if my parents had let me everything i wanted...
Yeah. Why we're there pop tarts at all? They serve no dietary use.
While pondering who to blame we also need to ask who is benefiting.
You one of those " some people have bad self control so we should ban fast food for everyone " people?
@@-.-Monster no. However, some people actually don't know how bad for them some foods are and there are people who benefit from keeping them in the dark. They actively try to block anyone that tries to turn all of the cards face up so that people are better able to make the choice that are best for them. The enablers are as bad as the doer in some cases.
@Monster Seriously? You see a comment about undereducated people getting taken advantage of by corporations, and the first thing you think is «ah yes they just can’t control themselves». The reality is that we don’t know what is actually put innpust food. Food corporations will put the most unhealthy, but cost effective things in what they sell, and not tell us about it. It’s hard to keep up. Couple that with lack of food education, and even lack of access to good food in the first place, and of course obesity is the epidemic it is today. Your oversimplification is based on a wildly misconstrued premis.
@@-.-Monster why do you start with an accusatory question and assumption to ask for clarification? Is this the new way of communicating? starting a reply with:"oh. So you are saying...' I find it so dumb, juvenile and frankly, quite rude. It tells me that one is more concerned with upholding their limited levels of understanding rather than gaining wisdom by being unassuming and genuinely curious about what other people say and/or think-In order to gain knowledge and understanding.
But these days it's: "oh so you are saying..." 🙄That is not what they are saying; it's what you are understanding and nobody is responsible for your lack thereof.
@@GullibleTarget read your response to mine. Who is being childish here again?
Kiana made the point about how the food industry has managed to completely pass the blame on to the consumers. It's a whole lot like people who don't tip in restaurants get criticised for being broke or stingy for not tipping, when actually the blame should be on companies who do not pay their staff enough in the workplace. They've managed to completely shift the blame away from themselves when they are the root cause!
Ever heard of the carbon footprint?
The food industry doesn't owe you anything. They're not putting a gun to your head forcing you to buy their junk. You voluntarily choose to give them your money in exchange for their goods. Lack of personal responsibility is why society is so sick these days, beyond just the food problem. My weight ballooned in college when my depression met with the university's all-you-can-eat dining plan but ultimately that was my responsibility because I allowed myself to cope by shoving large amounts of food into my mouth instead of finding healthier outlets for my problems. That situation didn't change until *I* decided to take charge and change it and live healthier.
I live ten minutes walking distance from the most popular fast food restaurant in our country. I have never set foot in it for six years now. For the most part, we have control over what we put in our bodies and how often we do it. Any fast food chain or edible product may advertise itself to my face 24/7, but in the end, I decide what I should be eating on a regular basis. I'm not going to be immature and blame others for any poor dietary choices or decisions.
@@annemary9680 the food industry owe us since we are the people targeted by their heavy marketing. Not everyone is aware of the neuroscience they use to litteraly makes you addicted to their junk. No need to have a gun to be force to do something. They just use basic neuroscience and addictives ingredients and target very young kids.
There are studies also that proves that the additives changes the bacterias in your intestines, those bacterias has a huge power on your brain so much that you feel the urge to eat more of those products. So it's not a blanket statement that will cure global obesity it's the end of this company. And they are dangerous for the planet anyway so we need to shut them down or make them change.
@@annemary9680 not everyone's situation is the same as yours m8
There was an awesome trend going around mom groups using the character partnering tactic actually! Put stickers of characters on food packaging or on toothpicks and stick it in food. It worked like a charm.
School lunches are something I never see come up in discussions about this. Kids are at school and forced to eat disgusting, frozen, low quality sandwiches and raw uncooked vegetables for breakfast and lunch. So when they get home or get their own cars/money, they’re going to get fast food because it actually tastes good.
Or the lunch is crap, like pizza
Or the parents can send a healthy lunch. It’s not that hard!
Lunch in college in the uk had no variety. Same dishes every day (lasagna w salad, curry w rice or fried chicken/burger and chips). Those were sad days really.
@@Weissguys6 you're speaking from a very privileged & ignorant position.
@@EmyN yes, most school lunches are comprised of processed, low-quality foods. Like its better to give them awful food than nothing at all.
As a man of nearly 70 years of age who brought up four daughters all of whom have done wellin life I can honestly say that it is the parents responsibility to ensure that the children get a proper diet and upbringing.
Kudos to you. You come from a generation of parents who actually did do parenting the right way. Unfortunately, the parents of this generation are lazy ass ones.
that’s some real insight there lol
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Maybe keto high fat
Might work instead of high carbs high bread and high sugar
( egg.cheese.butter.mayonnaise .beef meat )
Peanut butter. Tachini butter. Nutella
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@@eliascommentonly4652 Lots of people don't eat keto and do fine. Keto is fad diet. It was originally meant to be a short term diet that grew into a fad/trend.
@@gusmonster59
I hope it works
It is scary how the tactics of the Food Industry mirror the tobacco industry when they marketed to kids before they were more heavily regulated.
Exactly what I was thinking. Im personally in favor or regulating these companies the same way we do with tobacco. I wouldn't be surprised if these food companies are causing more damage to peoples health than tobacco did
They’re heavily regulated in Australia and I swear you can see the difference. It is very rare to see an obese child here. Although there’s a shit ton of obese adults anyway
@Cecilia Cole It is just scary that it is unchecked and unregulated at least in the U.S. it is.
A large portion of the US processed food industry is owned by Marlboro
Most of the time it’s parents most don’t even cook these days takeaways and junk food is far easier for them shocking
Easier but alot more expensive, and nobody is forcing them to eat oversized portions of the take-out and prepackaged food.
Never believe the "can't afford to eat healthy" fat excuses from people who eat twice as much as they need.
My mother was sexually abused multiple times as a child by different people. She gained weight as an adult and did not loss it until she had gastric bypass surgery. She later admitted to me that she used her weight as a way to avoid being looked at sexually by other people. She didn’t want to be abused again and she thought that she wasn’t worth the effort to take care of herself.
Unfortunately I picked up on her bad habits and am now trying to break those habits. I’m also trying to break the cycle so that my daughter doesn’t have to go through the same weight struggles. Definitely agree that it is a multi layer problem.
My own mother and a childhood friend of mine did the same, I also picked up the habit. I'm so sorry you have to deal with this as well. These problems are definitely complex and multi generational. Wishing you best of luck on your health journey! In solidarity 🙏💓
@@DivineLightPaladin thank you 😊
So far I have gone from 220 lbs as a 5’0 tall woman to 199 lbs!!! I am so excited to finally see a 1 at the beginning of my weight. I haven’t seen that in about 4 years. It has really encouraged me to continue doing what I am doing. I wish you luck as well. 😁
Same but in reverse. I developed anorexia because of severe childhood abuse because no one wants to SA a bag of bones ya know
@@cztianaki2689 I was more successful with getting fat. Anorexia only made the weirdest type of men come to me.
Freaking sucks. My mom was abused to that way as a child.
When that girl said she may not live to be 30, that was so devastating... I can’t believe how hopeless these people are due to their circumstances. Saying it’s all down to personal responsibility when allot of people are not well educated on nutrition and struggle with mental health issues like depression.
I went to a job interview here in Australia at McDonald's when I was about 23 and the manager literally said that they like to lock the kids in young so they keep coming back so I gotta be good with kids. I'll never forget it, one of those moments in life that no one would truly believe how casually it happened unless it was on film.
When I worked there young teens got away with a lot because the company wants 'life long customers'.
That’s why there are playgrounds there. So you mentally associate it with fun. Even as an adult you still think McDonald’s=fun and want to go there.
In the UK (and maybe elsewhere) university students can show their student card once a month or so for free food off the 99p menu.
What you said isn't just that asshole, it's literally how they work
@@thedrunkenelf yep, even though here i have only seen one single McDonald's with a playground in It.
@@BelaCoxinha in Australia a lot of maccas have playgrounds
I’ve watched this documentary called “Fed Up” and it spoke about the negativity of the food industry, talking about how sugar is used in fat free foods and using cartoon characters in marketing to appeal to children. It also interviewed children affected by the obesity epidemic.
So sad that the mother who doesn’t brush her daughter’s teeth would rather have her suffer than take a few moments to brush her teeth.
Not only that but a dental abscess can literally put you into sepsis and kill you.
I haven't brushed my teeth for 3 years and they're still strong as ever
@@SMCwasTaken bro u probably got hella cavities go to a dentist 💀
@@elusive4557me and my body know our stuff, pudding is not that bad
Yeah,it takes 2 min to brush your teeth
i gained a lot of weight after my mom passed away when i was 16. i’m 27 now and at a much healthier weight. but i feel like i only lost the weight because i was sick of everyone calling me fat and not because i wanted to be healthier 😢
No matter why you lost weight you did and that took a lot of work and dedication. Don't take that away from yourself just because your initial goal wasn't for health. It's never too late to become healthier no matter your current size or situation. I hope you continue to achieve your goals and live your best life! ❤️
@@tarotreadingsbysteven8545 thank you steven. i appreciate your kind words 💛
Well, do you feel better? Physically I mean. Are you happy about your health?
@@EmyN for a while no.. and rapid weight changes has changed my shape but i’m happy. i have had some other health issues that i’ve been able to take care of with supplements and staying active.
im sorry you went through all that.
I have an office job and I’m at a stage in my career where I am now in the generation who is training the younger generation. It struck me recently that nearly all of the youngest hires are extremely obese. We hardly print many things these days, but last week we had a project with lots of little printing spurts and I was actually worried about the person helping me being able to get out of her chair and walk to the printer 20+ times that day. She was so out of breath after just a couple of times. Of course there have always been overweight people with office jobs, but the difference between what used to be normal and now is very, VERY concerning. It’s hard to realize that this person in her early 20s is probably at, if not well beyond, the halfway point of her life if she doesn’t make very different choices for her health in the very near future.
As someone who worked a factory job, it's not just office jobs. My factory job there were only about 2 or 3 of us, on my shift (can't speak for the other shifts as I didn't interact witht hem much), were of a healthy weight. And we all got told we were too skinny.
There were 2 people who were regular overweight, and then most of them were obese, if not morbidly so. I really thought a factory, being an active job, would skew thinner and more muscular but I guess not....
I lived in the England from ages 2-4 and attended regular kindergarten. Before starting, my mum was handed a sheet where she had to check any foods I wasn’t allowed to have on a daily bases and she was absolutely horrified. The list included crisps, biscuits, sugary cereals, highly processed canned foods etc. I’m so glad I had a parent who cared about nutrition and took responsibility.
That first Mom was wrong but at least she was honest. She represents most parents. They’re emotionally exhausted and just do what’s “easiest.” It’s hard to parent. It’s hard to sit up all night, get through tantrums, watch your kid refuse to eat for a day, etc. But if you can push through that it will benefit your children for the rest of their lives. 🙏
Yep. If you push through it early on, the benefits will far out weigh the temporary difficulty. Like the teeth brushing. It's a habit you have to establish. Why that wouldn't be a priority I don't know.
Honestly if you can’t get through that, if you can’t actually PARENT your child, you do not deserve a child.
@@autumnrozariohallartstudio7396 Tobe semi fair, I only brushed my teeth once a day for a while when I was that age because I HATED doing it, and, while I did pay for it in cavities, it was nowhere NEAR the amount of tooth problems this poor child has. I just had about an average of one cavity a year until I got my shit together and started brushing my teeth regularly.
But my mom actually policed the amount of sugar I was consuming, which I believe is this poor child's main problem. She'd still have cavities from not brushing, but nowhere NEAR this amount.
@@Punk-possum i kinda agrée and kinda don't. I think it's likely you don't have any children, because it's exceptionally harder to raise a child to society's standards than people think. it's not as easy as anon forum commenters make it seem to be a kind, present, gentle, loving, compassionate and strict parent while also working part or full time and trying to live some semblance of a life yourself. Something has to give, and sometimes parents choose not to fight battles that lead to worse repercussions down the line. I can't necessarily blame them for that when everything else is overwhelming. As others have said, it's a wholly complex issue.
As a parent who works full time, studies part time, and lives alone with my child, yes. It’s hard. But we don’t eat junk food. I cook all my meals from the base ingredients. We eat fruit for snacks. Twice a month we make pizza.
And I hear parents in two parent households bitch about how they’re overworked? Sorry, I’m not buying this. You’re lazy.
Hello Kiana, I am Mexican and here in Mexico mandatory labels with warnings of excess sodium, fats and sugars have been implemented. This helped unmask many products (such as juices and cookies) that are aimed at children by being sold as "healthy". Also in Mexico, the use of caricatures in packaging was prohibited for the same reason that you mention in the video. Childhood obesity problems still exist in Mexico but at least the labels help to choose foods.
Mexico has big problems with people drinking sodas like water ,weight and teeth problem round the corner
@@neetashah1572 probably because soda is more available then water
The labels are not the issue.
@@GullibleTarget I know, are useful, but as someone mentioned it before, in Japan junk food is super striking but they have in general a healthy diet. I saw a documentary before that said that the problem was that in america fast food is more accessible and cheap than healthy food
@@miabunny715 how are they useful of they didn't change anything? I'm a bit older so I have seen the development of productplacement and advertising. Warning: I base my opinion on my own limited, western experience😉 but I will say that when 'easy' meals became popular; people were already warning and complaining. The fat and salt contents were already on the labels, we could read, we didn't require big warningsigns, we already knew that the processed foods were not as healthy as fresh produce. But supermarkets were coming up and you could buy a lot of food fir very little. The small grocer on the corner had to increase their prices to compete. Giving way to the fable that fresh food is somehow more expensive; it's not. They just found a cheaper way to sell food. This generated money and jobs.. but in the mid nineties people started to pick up on it. All it takes is bad publicity: Oprah Whinfrey was sued by foodcompanies for talking about not eating hamburgers. It backfired. Oprah became the 'hero' of the story and that threatened to sway public opinion from eating burgers. The mass producers and media then went on their 'green' campaign. McDonald's suddenly offered veggi burgers and salads, ready- made meals were advertised as 'cheap, healthy options' with Diet coke.
Fast forward to today and fastfood places like McDonald's are now offering 'vegan' options-eventhough the producing of the healthy options is putting more strain on our environment as a planet. So you don't eat a cow but you are destroying the natural habitat of wild buffalo- in order to grow soybeans to make a plant based burger that tastes like a grilled cow.
Same thing with cigarettes, we already knew it was linked to cancer. And people smoked everywhere. It wasn't until Phillip Morris got sued for 'giving people cancer' that the first warnings were issued. And people kept smoking! To this day! It only added 'vaping' to the mix as the 'healthy option'.
My point is that, there is only one way to not get overweight/drunk/sick/high to the point of addiction: making up your own mind and deciding to do better despite upbringing, environment, culture or all the destractions and misinformation around you. It's very much like drug addiction. Addicts will always find a valid reason/excuse to keep doing what they are doing when the only cure is to just quit doing it.
Back in the early 2000s I remember reading an article written by a father who had to take a young child in for surgery to have teeth removed. Some adult teeth that had rotted inside the gums, causing a lot of pain. They had brushed the kids teeth, no fizzy drink, their mistake was giving the kid a bottle with fruit juice at night. They thought they were giving the kid something healthy. It was a warning to other parents, even though he knew people would criticize him. I remember it because he wrote of how guilty he felt for putting his child through something that could have been easily avoided. A stark comparison to parents who go on TV and blame their kid for not following a diet they are in control of.
I’m from Asia, moved to North America. I was shocked how people don’t know how to cook! People love frozen food. Loads of cheese, cream and butter. So freaking gross. I ate junk food but not like kids here. I’m shocked my large sized coworker says her kid is a picky eater, so her lunch is just cracker, cheese and sliced apple. Her kid is also big. It’s so sad. It’s parents fault but also the society isn’t helping either.
Why would you come here anyway? Asia has better and healthier food. I’m jealous
@@Jms6450 A comfortable life and better housing if you are willing to learn and work. People like to shit on the US but it's still one of the best options out there for diligent people with marketable skills.
As a Romanian, like Denisa and her family I can tell you also something that they missed. We are made to eat adult size portions from childhood and then the parents guilt you into having seconds even though in my case, I was literally shedding tears because I physically could not eat anymore. And then if that’s not enough, you have to leave an empty plate. I’ve done my best to keep myself healthy and I managed to so far, but I struggle every day with portion sizes and leaving a “clean” plate. I’m pregnant now, I’ll never do this to my child.
This is where calorie counting, despite its apparent reputation, is usually healthier than these far-off approximation methods that just complicate things. There you'll have it, black on white. That many grams of this, that many grams of that. That many calories per 100 grams, easy peasy. You'll be as consistent as you could possibly be.
@@TheBcoolGuy I know, but calorie counting is a foreign concept to people who physically force their children to eat and it’s still a struggle years later for those children who have become adults. I’m talking about the psychological impact, not the practicalities of such situations. Had reason been the base of this, these kids wouldn’t be obese to begin with.
@@TheBcoolGuy i lost 10kg in the first week when i started counting calories,than the next week another 7 kg..thats 17kg lost in 2 weeks...doctor forced me to eat more but fk that not gonna do it,imma stick to 2000 calories a day,was suprised how much healthy food you can eat with 2000 calories
Best wishes to you and your own family
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Your comment is interesting, is this a cultural habit or just something that your family practiced? Part of my family came from Europe after WW II and they wouldn't tolerate any waste of food. But fortunately the rule at the table was 'take what you want, but eat what you take.'
I'm a middle school teacher and I worked in a low income school for years. The obesity problem in those neighborhoods is WELL past 20%, I would say at least 60-70% of the kids in those schools are overweight. I would watch them eat hot cheetos and soda for breakfast, I would always try to talk to them but obviously they didn't care. Its so sad.
They don't care - because they're poor. Food is a treat to them
@@aceman0000099 no, they look for cheap foods (which are typically processed) and end up gaining weight from it
@@aceman0000099 bullshit fruits and vegetables are not taxed
That's all they know. Their parents taught them.
@@יהוהיהושוע-כ3ר Well the school breakfast wasfree for them and those were always a protein source and some fruit while the hot chips and soda had to be purchased but they still paid for the junk rather than eat the healthy free food
My family was a bit like Danisa’s. I was over fed as a child and then bullied by my parents (mum) to the point of developing an eating disorder. All of which was apparently my fault.
I was on the heavy side in terms of my weight at 15-16 years old. 2020, I was stuck at home and grieving the loss of my mom from cancer. I was not taking proper care of myself. I did however turn things around. I took the responsibility of helping my father cook healthy meals and exercising. Eventually I joined a gym. I’m now at a healthy weight and working towards an athletic lifestyle at 19. One day I plan on becoming an indoor cycling instructor to help promote this lifestyle!
I can attest that decades ago, fast food was an occasional indulgence. Now it’s ubiquitous, and we accept it as a “necessary convenience”. Highly processed food is literally killing us
STOP EATING IT, THEN! I haven't had fast food in almost a decade, and I've never been well-to-do.
@@TheBcoolGuy It's just the fact that it wasn't readily available or thought of as actual meal replacements. A burger and fries would be a treat not a daily staple. My heart just goes out to the young children who have no say over their food and just learn to eat what their parents eat.
Yeah, as a kid in the 90s, fast food was just a road trip treat. I can't imagine having it regularly.
My best friend worked at McDonalds and so I would go and visit her for her break. I started noticing the same families going very often, like regulars! This shocked me. I like McDonald's but I only go, I don't know, maybe twice a month? And most of the time it's only to get an ice cream cone.
I don't understand how some people are ready to throw away their money all on fast food and how they feel good without eating anything healthy like fruits or vegetables. I would take raspberries over a plate of fries any day (ok except maybe costco fries but thats why I avoid them😂)
KILLING US!
Whenever you see a question like, "Who/What is to blame?", prepare for an answer that is going to be far more complex than the question seems to want. It's almost never just one factor.
I mean, my mom was a huge health nut and I still ended up as an obese teen because highly palatable foods are way too incredibly addictive. She did everything right. Taught me how to choose the right food, taught me what good food looks like, how to cook, how to think critically about what I'm putting in my body, and I still failed in my teen years. The food industry definitely has some part to play, it's not ALL parents.
Oof i feel you buddy, it's so unfair that foods that taste good are bad for us, i wish in the future scientists would manufacture healthy foods that taste good
oh I feel you there. my parent taught me properly, and i managed well through college bc i was an athlete, but then, 🫥 then adult life hit me, then i got injured, knee surgery, long covid twice and 1 hospitalization. i gained ab 10kg. cleaning up my diet wasnt too hard, but with the dramatically increasing prices, it gets financially more difficult. inflation sure af hasnt hit McD the way its hit milk&bread 🤡 i use an app called Lifesum to help me shop groceries. u can scan the barcode, and it will gove you calories and a smiley on it nutritional value - the paid version will give you propber breakdown. its helped bc its not always easy to do the math on the nutri values on the packs, and its often misleading, and sometimes what seemed healthy really isnt, and what you thought was very unhealthy actually isnt that bad. i found out one of my fav childhood snacks (drinking yougurt) actually had *great* nutritional value and much less calories than i thought.
@@SMCwasTaken they already have in other countries like Japan and Korea. It's just countries like the USA don't consider salt, calorie, and carbohydrate intake as much as Japan
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Maybe keto high fat
Might work instead of high carbs high bread and high sugar
( egg.cheese.butter.mayonnaise .beef meat )
Peanut butter. Tachini butter. Nutella
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When your a child, you rely on your parents to buy the food and what foods they allow you to eat, that is on your parents. Now when you buy your own food, then it's on you.
I feel for this girl, I've been in a similar situation with my family. Sadly my family has a huge junk food addiction. They convinced me for the longest time that our family was just bigger than everyone else. I was reticuled and made fun of all the time in junior high and highschool for my weight, now that I've stepped away from my family I see how delusional they are to their eating habits. When I get together with them, all they want to do is eat, or go out to eat. I also had to realize and admit to myself that I had an unhealthy relationship with food, that I would eat it for comfort when I was sad. I tried to tell my family that what they're doing to themselves is a problem, but they just got offended, then made every excuse they could to justify their eating habits. It makes me sad that I can not hang out with them as much anymore cause every time I do, I seem to let my old eating habits creep back. I love my family so much, I'm so scared that they're going to eat themselves in an early grave 😞 They won't help themselves, so I'm forced to sit here helplessly watching them all destroy their health
"it's a chore for her. Who wants to brush their teeth when they could be downstairs watching Peppa pig?"
Ok but why not get her to brush her teeth WHILE she's watching Peppa pig? All you need is a tooth brush, toothpaste, a cup of water and a container to have them spit in and a napkin to wipe their mouth with. Make it a habit to do with something she actually enjoys like watching Peppa pig and that will over time become a habit independent of Peppa pig.
Or…. She can just brush her teeth because that’s insane we don’t need to be entertained while we do every single thing….
I brush my teeth in the living room while I watch youtube, and I'm an adult. :)
@@Sageddegas sure, but what they ment is that the mother has no argument as to why those two things have to be exclusive.
The mother essentially blames Peppa Pig for her daughter not being able to brush her teeth. Which is absolutely ridiculous
@@smirglepapier531 that’s not what my point is 😐
@@Sageddegas yeah, and what you criticised wasn't the point of the original comment so...
My family blamed me harshly for my weight issues as early as 8 yrs old. I was made to eat different foods sometimes from everyone, cal count as early as 4th grade, and go on so many diets. All the while they filled the house to the brim with cakes and snacks, every lapse in diet meals for me was replaced with pizza/takeout/and stuff like "tater tot casserole". My relationship with food is absolutely abysmal, I still hide when I nab snacks from the kitchen even though its my own house.
That’s sad did you get on the right side of it? While I believe the industry and ultra processed food is to blame the parents should not be allowing access to this stuff!
You are most likely addicted to sugar and processed carbs, go cold Turkey for a month you will reset your palalat and gut biome
I hope you’re doing better and approaching a healthy relationship with food now 🫶🏼
Blaming will only push obese ppl away
So sorry. My parents let us have a 2 small cookies as an after-school snack or one bakery treat per week, but there were NO chips, no soda, no sugary snacks, no sugary drinks, no high fat no veggie meals in the house….so made it easy to resist and have the apple from the fruit bowl.
In The Netherlands there is actually a law right now that food is not allowed to be marketed towards kids. So no more spongebob cookies and all of that can be found in the supermarkets anymore. I have to say I thought it was a little sad at first, since for me it feels like childhood sentiment. But now I'm very happy this law is in place! :)
They van put it on healthy things. So much better
Interesting, not a bad idea.
Yeah, right! Just try that in the good old USA and watch the reaction from the massive junk food industry. "Free speech", "Personal Choice" etc. etc. The Republicans would have a new religious crusade to yell about.
It is the parents that are to blame,they lack responsibility for their children.
You've got some fantastic points, but I need to point out that a lot of British parents like these do not care about their children and do NOT want to be educated. I live in a British town with VERY obese families like in the doc and I work in a sweet shop, and I have had multiple fat families tell me they don't care that the kid's a sugar addict. These kids get pressured by parents to buy large milkshakes instead of regular. The parents hate that they themselves are obese, and slim themselves by fattening the children. I feel so so sorry for these children, I hope they make it out and lose the weight like I did!
Fun times getting raised by narcissists
True that seen way to many kids with shitty parents in Britain.
those are narcissists and they exist everywhere
Omg. Are you serious? How can that be true?
@@GreenIceTea93 Gluttony
I was near 200 pounds (I'm 14 btw) and I gain most of these pounds due to stress eating as my family were going through really hard times but now I'm starting to lose pounds and exercising went from 200 to 191 in around 3 to 4 ish weeks which I'm super proud of!
Please investigate a carnivore diet.
Good for you!!! Keep it up! 😊
Also, probably don’t listen to that other guy lol. He’s one of those loonies who goes around putting the same thing on everyone’s comments 🙄
You’re a kid. You’re still growing and need all the nutrients you can get! An overly restrictive diet could be harmful.
Emotional eating is really hard to handle for adults. Basically the emotional part of your brain develops before the part of your brain that handles self control so it makes sense why teens would have a particularly hard time with over eating. I hope it's going well and you're not being too hard on yourself. It's hard because your parents made it harder for you, both with life style and genetics but you have the power to make changes that will benefit your quality of life. Good job being conscious of it at 14.
Good for you ! Keep going, you can do it !
I use to weigh 192 (my max) and about 14 months later I weigh 137. The hope is out there. I was 15 (now 16) and only 5'1 then and now I'm 5'3. I did it for health too and trust me it's worth it. Youve got this!
I remember my mom commenting on my weight when I was 10 years old. I only ate what she fed me and was obese.
Parents that have food problems pass those problems on, sadly.
Unfortunately, a lot of parents don't understand appropriate portions of food for children either.
I remember my childhood was dominated by my mother nagging me to finish everything on my plate before I was allowed to leave the table. When I complained I was full, but she would respond with a slap.
It's no wonder I got fat, then my mother complained about that. By then the damage was done and my weight has yoyo'd throughout my life.
(On a diet now because the recent heatwave we had here was so bad I thought I would die. I know it's my weight, so it has to go. But with a lifetime of diets, my metabolism is wrecked).
As someone who has battled weight most of my life I feel soooo sad for these kids. It’s really hard not thinking about food all the time - difficult to ignore sugar cravings. At 68 have finally found my answer to no alcohol and no cravings. Simply, more protein and fat.
It stops being difficult a few weeks after you get used to telling yourself "no" and go do something else.
I grew up a fat kid. I blame my parents and the food industry. Kids aren’t the ones buying the food for the house. Yes I asked for bagel bites and pizza rolls but it was my mom who put it in the cart and paid for it. My parents saw me gaining weight and being unhappy but never stepped in to help me. I finally started losing weight when I moved out of their house. It’s especially frustrating when the parents are overweight themselves and then act like they have no idea why their kid is fat.
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The food industry has nothing to do with it, its entirely on the parents when it comes to obese kids. The food industry only sells a product, it doesnt force you to buy it.
Dense and dumb. It's the parents who are to blame
Me too, my mother preferred to drink and flirt with men rather than put my interest above her own.
Exactly, and it's especially frustrating when they blame it on genetics and say "we're just big-boned, everyone in our family is fat." Like did you ever think maybe that has to do with the adults sharing the same poor habits and passing that on to the kids?
I work in a school and one of the children specifically stands out. He is 2x the size of the other children in his grade, in height AND weight. He is not only far bigger than them, but a complete bully. He is never satisfied with the amount of food given and will terrorize the other children for their food and they will give him the food, sadly. The staff has tried fixing this issue, but it clearly started inside the home and not much can be done at this point.
I understand what you are saying but the fact that everyone on the staff seems to agree "not much can be done at this point" is self fulfilling. Maybe not approach him or the situation with the self defeating attitude. Kids pick up on that energy
What do you mean ''nothing can be done about it''? Its a kid. Seperate them from the others at lunch or something. I doubt there is nothing that can be done.
if he’s that much bigger in height as well that makes me think something genetic might also be going on. sadly if his parents already gave up on him idk what can be done
it's hard to help someone with an attitude like that, but I feel like what he needs is therapy, not just school counseling.. which makes it even harder bc therapy is expansive and he has to be willing. if he doesn't think overeating is a problem then he obviously doesn't realize he needs help
I understand that there’s only so much teachers can do to instill discipline in kids, but is there no way to at least separate this child from the others so he doesn’t bully them?? I know that sounds cruel in some ways, you don’t just want to ostracize a kid, but what about the other bullied kids? They deserve to be protected and not terrorized for their food.
I relate to the little girl with lots of teeth decay. My parents never made me brush my teeth when I was a child, so now I have horrible yellow teeth. I can't make friends because people see my teeth and get put off- No amount of brushing can reverse the damage now. It led to lots of insecurities and mental health issues at a young age, including a suicide attempt. Hopefully one day I can get teeth whitening treatment, but its so important for parents to properly look after their kids health and its frustrating to see so many who dont care and dont realise the damage they're causing to their child.
Have hope. Nobody is worth being a friend if they care that much about your teeth.
Yellow teeth doesn't matter for real friends? But if this is a problem for you try bleaching? At a dentist
Same here, but I got cavities on all of my upper teeth as a child, which led the dentist to pull them all out at once (because my babysitter always took us regularly). Then, I smashed my jaw and had to get majority of my bottom teeth pulled out, so I had all of my adult teeth by the time I was like 10. After we moved, when I was 12, I stopped going to the dentist on top of not brushing my teeth for years at that point... At 17 my excruciating toothache led me to go to the dentist, and she actually yelled at me. She said we would need about 10 appointments to get my teeth healthy again. I started brushing my teeth, and I also do wish to get teeth whitening because even though they're not yellow, they aren't white either. Only one of my teeth on my right side is yellow and actually has a hole in it from idk what.
It won't do wonders at once but hydrogen peroxide is good for tooth health in general including the colour.
I do agree my bf has teeth issues his are caised by poor genetics (really some dental meds his father had to take with a 1 in 4 chance of bad teeth happening in offspring) hes very adamant about tooth care and has been for his entire 20 years of life but everyday they keep breaking more and more pain and rot (hes had caps and fills but it never helps) 😔
Hes 20 and looking to save for permanent tooth replacement for 75% of his teeth or go with dentures whatever we can afford when it gets to that point
Its definitely his biggest personal demon and a huge cause of mental stress and physical pain (no amount of oragel or tylenol help hes tried and almost overdosed on tylenol)
When I was in Greece, the food quality was completely different! The meat, fish and vegetables were fresh and had no preventatives nor pesticides. I compared the Fanta in Greece to the Fanta in Canada where I live. It’s completely different. The Fanta in Greece does not have additives, dyes and fillers. I even took a look at granola bars and found the same thing! Even the taste of the food was different. Fruits were juicy and organic compared to the fruits in Canada. Most of the fish was wild caught.
Part of the reason why people are getting obese has to do with what is going into the food. I do believe that it is up to the consumer to take personal responsibility for themselves too. My friend has this saying “if god didn’t wrap it, you shouldn’t eat it.”
I think a lot of parents use their kids as a way to vindicate their own eating disorder. I think the parents know what they're eating is unhealthy but because that's what their child wants to eat they'll justify buying and eating with them. Of course children want foods like that, that's how the food industry designed it.
Parents definitely bear much of the blame, but like you said it’s more than that. My mom works as a lunch lady at a middle school and since the lunch program was privatized, the “nutrition” of the average lunch eaten by kids there is appalling. They have extremely greasy, cheese heavy pizza available every day and surprise surprise, kids want pizza instead of salad. There are kids that eat it every single day, and multiple slices.
My high school also never provided attractive healthy alternatives. My lunches were burgers, pizza, and frito pie was popular. It’s just any chip of your choice topped with mystery meat and cheese 🤦♀️ all of these things are tasty, but none of them should be eaten every day for lunch. The schools are also to blame.
And the only other option is to just starve
@@eerielconstantine5051 Its like they are all trying to kill us
My high school limits pizza sales to once a week. Ramen (sales) is banned because too much sodium (you can bring it from home though.) Only baked fries in the cafateria. All schools should be doing this.
@@Tribuneoftheplebs My school doesnt, pizza burgers and nachos every single day, I should start packing my lunch...
Poor Denise seeing what her family was like terrified me
i'd say it's the parents but also the fact that junkfood is cheap, tasty and convenient (ish) whilst healthy food is expensive and hard to make+ less gratifying hormonally.
make it so that healthy food is available, affordable and sold in pre made portions like junk food and it will be far easier
I know a family whose dad had a heart attack (fortunately he survived). The whole family changed their diet and starting working out together. My pastor, and his wife, started intermittent fasting about a year ago, (and they are looking great). If one member of a family needs to eat a certain way, it is very helpful and practically necessary for the other members to eat that way too.
That should count as child endangerment or neglect 😮 those parents should be hold accountable
Fatlogic corrupts everything. Today you'll get CPS called on you if your child complain you are "starving" them by feeding them correctly but they don't get 24/7 access to their favorite junkfood and made a sob story to a teacher.
I was always an obese kid, at 10yo I was weighing around 90kg, my parents used to take me to nutritionists many times, but always expected me to work alone, and solve my problem for myself. Now I'm 20yo and 140kg, since the pandemic I gladly was able to lost 20kg, but I keep working out everyday, and trying to fix my relationship with food.
Luckly I never developed into any disases like diabates or something like that, but 'till this day if I say is my parents fault that I was weighing so much when I was so little they will always start an argument with me. It's me and me alone, and of that I know. Hope those kids have a better future than mine.
Ps,: your videos are amazing, and been really helping me throughout my journey, thanks so so so much!!
An obese child is always the parents fault, excluding those children that have medical issues. Expecting a child to regulate themselves on their own is ridiculous. Dont let your parents shift their blame onto you 👍
Congrats on the weight loss, im so sorry you were neglected as a kid :( you're breaking the cycle, i wish you good luck
Congrats on the weight loss!! You’re making a very admirable move and I hope it goes well for you :)