Written by Panarama is on and talking about something like 1 in 4 of toddlers are obese by the time they start nursery.
Few people can say that I am obese now or was in primary school. However when I started school, I was a complete chunkster. I ate the food my mum cooked for me, and had a balanced diet, I played outside and loved sport, yet I was chunky. Even my husband has trouble believing the photos of me are in fact me at the age of around 4/5 years of age.
The point is that at that age kids are still developing and their body shape can completely change – I am proof of that. It worries me a little in case our kids take after me and start out life being a bit chunky – will they be classified as obese and make me feel like a bad mother? Will anyone listen to what happened to me as a kid, or will James and I be force fed the fad of the day to keep our kids weight down? We don’t seem to accept that some things just occur and they will rectify themselves.
I had homemade food and always ate my vegetables and was still chunky, ran around (a lot). So what would the child dieticians say my mum did wrong? In this day and age it would have been questioned why I was so chunky but they couldn’t blame it on processed foods because we didn’t have any.
Answers on a postcard please…