It doesn’t hold up logically. And the real reason that kids are so damned fat is for the same reason the parents are. They eat crap.
If all you do is eat junk food, sweets and cokes every damned day then yes you will turn into a huge tub of lard. It’s for this reason that I’m not entirely opposed to doing things like taking the coke machines out of the schools.
The fact that we even have flavored water borders on the ridiculous. Water is what we’re supposed to drink. Our bodies are mostly water and yet most people treat plain H20 like it is the plague.
In Milwaukee a few years ago it was. Cryptosporidium
Egad, don't you know what fish do in that stuff!?