Friday 9 September 2011

Synthetics Might Be Somewhat of a Solution for Childhood Obesity

By Bradley Watts


Applied science has expanded the products in our lives frequently to significant benefit. One of those areas is in the creating of synthetic products,eg artificial rubber, synthetic oil, and synthetic paper. Now, synthetic turf might even be a reply to help get our children off the couch playing video console games and outside playing.

The CDC has said that our childhood obesity in the US is at an astronomic almost 20 percent. Bear in mind that this is fat, not merely overweight. We have brought technology to food, now how about to providing a safe environment for them to run and play?

Synthetic turf has been utilized in pro sports like football, baseball and football for a very long time now, but it's been making its way into playing areas as well over the past 5 years particularly.

This turf provides some bounce, sheltering the children from falls a bit, but also from the scratches and broken arms that occur with concrete or blacktop surfaces. The synthetic turf is also just about upkeep free, since it does not require water, grass cutting, or even patching holes.

Statistics show the average child spends over 7 hours either watching TV or playing video console games a day, while less than 1 in 5 youngsters get the recommended 1 hour per day of aerobic activity. If you have seen one of the new computer games graphics recently, you can see how these games can be quite habit-forming and that technology advances have certainly been made there since the days of Atari's Pong.

Other causes of childhood obesity of the access to healthy, fresh foods. School cafeterias have not done enough to plug fresh foods and salad bars, while still permitting sugar drinks which are a large source of empty calories for youngsters.

Incredibly, studies also show that only 25% of kids are still breastfed after 6 months, though not breastfeeding is an element in childhood obesity.




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