Comments on: Fat 2 Fit Show #32 – Geocaching

By: Russ Turley

Russ Turley — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:56:13 +0000

@Emily: 2 1/2 mile walk? That’s why we called it a stealth calorie burner. That’s awesome. I always have to remember to enjoy the hunt and the journey, because sometimes I come away without finding the cache.

Thanks for the comment.

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:10:45 +0000

Awesome is all I can say. My husband did not believe that geocaching was real until we had our first find. Now I think he is more hoooked than I am. We when in search of a cache this last weekend and ended up on a two and a half mile walk. I would never have agreed to a walk that long thinking I could not do it. But I did it and with little problem. And we found the cache

Thanks so much for the great idea!!!

By: John

John — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:35:47 +0000

Geocaching…what a cool idea. My wife is going to kill me if I buy another toy!!! Thanks guys

By: Russ Turley

Russ Turley — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:17:25 +0000

I’ll agree with you on the breast fed babies exclusion. A friend of ours had one of the fattest little boy you ever saw. The baby was like 30 pounds at 3 months, 8-ish pounds when born. His rolls had rolls. His height caught up with his weight eventually. Just like your son, completely breast fed.

I should have clarified “juice”. Kool-Aid is what I meant. Juice with no redeeming nutritional value.

By: paxye

paxye — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:45:17 +0000

Though I do not deny that children are becoming more and more overweight, I feel the need to comment on young children being classified “obese”.
My youngest son was classified as “obese” when he was 10 months old and we were referred to specialists at the local children’s hospital to make sure that it was not hormonal. It turns out however, that he is perfectly normal even though he was and is twice the weight of other kids his age.
He is the kicker though, at that time, he was still exclusively breastfed. He had not started Solids at all, he had not even had water. Now he is 18 months old and his weight gain has stopped but he is still nearly twice the size of other kids his age and he eats very small amounts and still mostly breastfed. My other children are quite skinny and were eating much more than he does at the same age and were nursing too so it is really his body and not what goes in that is determining his weight.
The specialists also told me that BMI should not be done for children under the age of 5 because children’s weight and height can vary so much. So the rates of “obese” 2 year olds really do not count in my opinion.

That being said, I do think that parents are feeding their children the wrong things and that there are many children out there that are unhealthy despite their weight. “Juices” and Foods that are full of sugar, sodium, food additives such as dyes and artificial flavours… foods that are overly processed and no longer taste like real food. These children are not learning how to eat at all. Parents are setting their kids up for failure, whether it be obesity later in life or just unhealthy overall.