Apparantly doctors now believe that lack of sleep in children/teenagers is related to obesity.

Funny really- i thought it was relating to eating junk food and not having any physical activity.

According to bbc news a hormone is produced when you are tired that gives you cravings for sweet foods etc.

ATTENTION parents of fat kids. Put your kids to sleep from 6pm till 7am, they will get thinner.

ATTENTION parents of fat kids. Put your kids to sleep from 6pm till 7am, they will get thinner.

 

Only, because they won't be eating for 13 hours!

aye-sleep yourself thin, weightwatchers will be out of business and bensons for beds will expand overnight.

Some kids are just fat, their parents are fat & that's the way it goes.

 

The others have their parents to blame. Not a load of ragging junk food adverts on the b??stard telly.

AS has it spot on, I'm ancient and we used to eat all sorts of crap full of e numbers and sugar and we weren't fat but we were outside from sun up till sun down running around etc, a lot of it is due to lack of exercise and parents not thinking its safe for their kids to roam and run around like we used to

Eat all the junkfood you like, you can get thin instantly - Link , you'll know when the time is right, people will start throwing harpoons at you

Kids are fat only because the politically correct do gooders have stopped the under 16's from smoking.

AS has it spot on, I'm ancient and we used to eat all sorts of crap full of e numbers and sugar and we weren't fat but we were outside from sun up till sun down running around etc, a lot of it is due to lack of exercise and parents not thinking its safe for their kids to roam and run around like we used to

 

True, true and true! however since the 70's the development in farming of and subsequent use of very cheap mass produced corn sugar in the USA and Europe has seen its overuse in bread, flour, pasta, (name any processed carb based and other processed food such as baked beans, fish fingers, pies, crisp etc) to bulk out the fayre with this calorie laden "Soylent Green" read a book that stated the the same weight mcdonalds big mac calorie comparison from 1973 to 2003 was something like 270 versus 730 respectively through the use of this substance!

 

Kids are fat only because the politically correct do gooders have stopped the under 16's from smoking.

 

 

Also very true, I can vouch for this myself. I want to be reincarnated as a smoking beagle!

Edited October 19, 200619 yr by Big_Girl_Oral_Explosion

Kids are fat only because the politically correct do gooders have stopped the under 16's from smoking.

 

Aye, and get the lazy little f??ckers back down the pit as well.

 

Glebe Street, Leigh - circa 2003