This is a short post to finish the week. I recently came across an news brief in the Chicago Tribune that reported the results of a study indicating that many obese children and teenagers have arteries comparable in health to a 45-year old. I know that a lot of kids want to grow up quickly for reasons such as driving, voting, drinking, etc., but I can’t imagine that this is on their list of motivators. Couple this with the ridiculous amount of debt that the U.S. government has created and continues to add, and our children’s physical and fiscal future doesn’t look too good. On the other hand, perhaps for their troubles they’ll have more comprehensive health care.
I described the future as bleak in the post’s title, but the truth is that these kids’ futures are bleak only if we choose that. That choice is made every day in very small ways that we don’t tend to think about until we notice a problem brewing. Hopefully continued publicizing of news like this will prompt adults to act responsibly on behalf of their kids.
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