[worst-case scenario]

Once she stops expending so much energy on the tennis court, her diet will have to change. It’s a pretty simple premise.

Fat kids need to get up from the TV and the computer screen and run around more. The only question is who’s going to make them do that: themselves? Their parents? Their teachers? Michelle Obama?

[netmilsmom]

>>Fat kids need to get up from the TV and the computer screen and run around more.<<

It’s not just overweight kids, that’s ALL kids.
Even thin kids are prone to cardio problems now a days.

Some of that is lack of Vitamin D from sunshine too.

[sinanju]

I’ve read that many professional athletes gain a ton when they quit playing. Even a respectable level of working out and exercising can’t approach the massive exertions demanded of a life on the gridiron.

I’m thinking the recent explosion of monstrous obesity in recent years is a combination of the internet, proliferating cable channels, handheld electronic entertainment doodads (and the commensurate lack of sleep and correspondingly deranged appetite), the microwave and the disappearance of family dining.

TV, Fast food and junk food have been around for a half-century, it’s these recent developments that have made the difference.

[Sir Gawain]

Fat kids need to get up from the TV and the computer screen and run around more. The only question is who’s going to make them do that: themselves? Their parents? Their teachers? Michelle Obama?

The Black Panthers.