It starts with the parents
I agree completely with this post. For years my wife's side of the family meets up at a local fast food joint every week for lunch. Why? Well, they said it's because the kids can play in the attached play gym. Hmmm. I wonder what the parents are teaching their kids? Do you think the kids are learning to associate burgers fries and soft drinks, which by most measures are horrible for them, with happiness and memories of playing in a cool indoor playhouse? Those clever fast food companies have figured out a long time ago that if you can hook them early, they are customers for life. I made my argument years ago to one of the adults and it was as if I was looking at her with two heads. She didn't even seem to comprehend the possibility that these kids could be establishing patterns of eating that would stick with them the rest of their lives. Multiply that one family by millions of others and there you have a recipe for a health care and financial disaster which is being played out in the U.S. like a slow motion movie.
