Prevention of Obesity Infcontral - Simple Vs Complex and Confusing And solvable

To date, experts and the media have combined to portray the child obesity as a complex problem with multiple and difficult to control variables. For example, is the modern diet of fast food, as well as the mother who lacks time to cook for their children. There are television, video games and computer, all of which conspire to ensure Century 21 children remain inactive as physically possible.

Add to all that advertising that encourages consumption of sugary foods, lack of fresh fruits and vegetables due to lack of supermarkets in poor neighborhoods, lack of daily physical education, along with genetics and metabolism, and that all sounds confusing and complicated, right? How to attack? How to measure and evaluate? And how to pay for it in a bear market?

We are spending billions

With regard to pay for it, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has decided to child obesity is so threatening that is dedicated 500 million dollars over the next five years to find a solution to child obesity. If you throw in all other foundations, corporations, state and federal funding mechanisms have to be billions each year spending in an effort to get a handle on child obesity epidemic that threatens future generations and financial viability our nation.

Overlooking a clear and simple solution

But do not know him. After spending all that time and money to convince everybody is complex and confusing child obesity, suddenly there is an authority that has the audacity to raise his hand and announce that child obesity is not as complex and confusing as conventional authorities would have us believe.

Describing Operation Pull Your Own Weight recently as a simple, easy to implement, easily documented, and affordable solution to child obesity, The American Society of conventional exercise physiologists suggest that the authorities have ignored at least one obvious, simple and affordable solution, while focuses on the more complex possibilities.

As complex as you want it

Therefore, when it comes down to it, you can do so complex and confusing child obesity as it may, in order to justify spending billions while overlooking simple solutions that have been hidden in plain sight during years. That is effectively what we’ve done to date. Or you can open your eyes and see what each physical educator has intuitively known for decades. Namely, children can do pull ups are never obese.

Yes, regardless of their eating and exercise habits, neighborhood of the economy, family genetics or his affection for the game, if I show ten children who can do pull ups, I will show ten children who are not obese. And given access to a simple height adjustable pull up bar and leg assisted pull ups, most children can learn to do pull ups in a predictable amount of time. Therefore, almost all children can profitably be vaccinated against obesity for life if they can start early (Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade) and help them learn to do pull ups.

Why ignore the solution

So, why have legions of experts ignores this obvious and simple solution to child obesity? Let me answer that question with another question. When was the last time you saw anyone spending billions to find an antidote for polio? I have a clue here. Dr Jonas Salk developed the first effective vaccine against polio in 1952, and once the solution is found, the research money came to stop a screeching.

In other words, the minute someone finds a real solution to child obesity, is the time when all the research money and dried to blows away. That is, experts are being paid to study the problem, not solve it. In fact existing financial incentives to avoid paying a real solution, and that’s a real problem.

Simple vs complex and confusing and solvable

But with or without the blessing of experts, the real solution to child obesity lies with each of the parents and educators who work directly with each of the children, with real names, real smiles, and the real needs. It is these parents and educators who must decide if the child obesity is a complex and confusing dilemma, or a simple and very soluble problem.

If you choose to complex and confusing to have a ready made excuse for procrastinating wringing their hands and more. But if they wish and simple to solve and transform confusion and delay in understanding and action. At this point the problem will be solved, one child at a time. Parents and educators, is in your hands.

Substitute any hard enough functional (ie, dips, rope climbing, rock climbing, hand stand push ups, push ups superman) instead of pull ups and the results will inevitably be the same.