[FITZ]

Just a lack of exercise alone doesn't cause young kids to be a type 2 diabetic or obese. Lack of exercise is a factor but the diet changed with the advent of the food guide pyramid. Fat became anathema and carbohydrates were the healthiest foods you could eat, so they said.

But that doesn't apply to those in this article ---- they've never likely heard of it. Their diet likely hasn't changed much but the life of welfare just means a whole lot more food and no exercise. Parents teach by example --- if they are just planted in front of a television watching novelas all day long that's what the kids think is normal.

[CajunConservative]

The way the foods are now processed has changed. Foods used to have real ingredients not the much cheaper highly refined ingredients used today.