tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2171776489221716830.post4948650537893381462..comments2024-03-29T01:59:06.096-07:00Comments on Demeur: Food colouringDemeurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01935263659097273535noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2171776489221716830.post-6130221936221687342008-04-11T06:48:00.000-07:002008-04-11T06:48:00.000-07:00I am old enough to remember what it was like way b...I am old enough to remember what it was like way back when. It's almost creepy to watch things devolving, isn't it! <BR/><BR/>I can remember those days too, D. I'm 50 now, and I used to spend SO much time playing basketball anywhere I could find a place to play, from the time I was about 10 until I was 25 or so. I was never very good, but it was about the only form of exercise I liked. There was a lot of football and baseball time there too, and it was just about all street ball... but my friends and I were out doing a lot of running and sweating, and at the time we couldn't imagine NOT doing it. After a couple of knee operations and a spinal fusion in the last seven years, I am needing to find some type of exercise I can still do, because I am becoming lame and lardy. It has to be low-impact. I loathe swimming, but I am considering bicycling a lot this summer.<BR/><BR/>What HAS brought all this lack of exercise stuff with our kids? I think a major culprit is video games, along with what I'm doing right now (sitting at the computer). People get addicted to television already, but once computers and games started to be so much more fun about 15 years ago, I think that compounded the problem. Nowadays, people don't seem to set any boundaries between what is fun and what is necessary, and I hear people justifying why they are on the computer much of the time, or why they sit and play XBox or whatever... it's because they need to do it to relax.<BR/><BR/>I don't spend lots of time at the computer or sitting playing my Nintendo ES because I like it. I do those things because I am addicted to them, and because I am lazy. Looking at it from my angle, I think that is why a lot of kids look the way they do today.<BR/><BR/>I work in schools, and I don't see a huge percentage of obese kids, but I do see a lot of them I would consider mentally obese. What they mostly want to talk about is video games. I don't know very many middle schoolers who are interested in much else. A few do sports, maybe a few are into Scouts and church groups that go on hikes and campouts, but for the most part, they seem to be an unmotivated bunch.Snavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13763424943041003098noreply@blogger.com