US: Obesity, Diabetes & ADD

We are having so much more diabetes among children and adults than we used to because:

a) We are too sedentary. In our suburbs we drive everywhere for everything (even to the gym to use walking machines), and when we're back at our isolated houses we sit in front of the tv all day.

b) The 4 major food groups in the Food Express at the gas station are Saturated Fat, Sugar / Corn Syrup, Carbohydrates and Caffeine.

I've gotten old enough so that I can say, When I was a kid, we walked to school and rode our bikes everywhere. We weren't allowed too many snacks, and could only watch 1 hour of tv per week.

An early study suggests that every hour of television a child watches increases the chance of the child developing ADD by 10%.

I've linked the study to CNN, which puts five things on the screen at a time in their television broadcasts.

The senior executives of CNN hate the visual clutter on the screens, but have all sorts of studies that show their young viewers want to see the NBA scores scrolling across the bottom of the screen at the same time they hear the latest news from Iraq.

It's like the super-fast cutting on MTV and in commercials that drives their parents crazy when it works its way into movies.