{"id":355,"date":"2010-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/communitynews\/2010\/04\/childhood-obesity-whos-to-blam.html"},"modified":"2010-04-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T00:00:00","slug":"childhood-obesity-whos-to-blam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/communitynews\/2010\/04\/childhood-obesity-whos-to-blam.html","title":{"rendered":"Childhood Obesity: Who’s to Blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where should responsibility lie when it comes to children who are overweight? Should the focus be on placing blame or should we instead try to search for solutions? Offer your thoughts and take a look at what others are saying about parenting and childhood obesity<\/a>.
\nCheck out what one member says:
\n“Recently, some coworkers were discussing how they HAD to buy junk food because they had kids. I was rather stunned. They blamed their own weight issues on the junk food they had at home that they HAD to buy for their kids because their kids wouldn’t eat anything else. Well, I have a solution for that. Let them go hungry. When they get hungry enough, they will eat FOOD. REAL FOOD. When I was a child, dinner choices were not an option. I didn’t have to eat everything but I didn’t get substitutions.”
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