{"id":12990,"date":"2012-01-10T10:27:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T15:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12990"},"modified":"2012-01-10T10:28:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T15:28:27","slug":"parents-absolving-themselves-from-any-responsibility-want-ottawa-to-solve-child-obesity-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/parents-absolving-themselves-from-any-responsibility-want-ottawa-to-solve-child-obesity-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents (absolving themselves from any responsibility) want Ottawa to solve child obesity problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents who fear to let their children go outside want the federal government to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.680news.com\/health\/article\/317974--parents-want-ottawa-to-do-more-to-tackle-childhood-obesity\" target=\"_blank\">magically fix the problem<\/a> the parents have created:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The majority of parents believe they play a major role in whether their children are overweight, but many also want the government to build more recreation centres.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The survey done by Ipsos Reid talked to 1,200 people, and most feel obesity is the leading health issue facing children today &mdash; more so than drugs, smoking and alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>The survey found that 61 per cent of Canadians don&#8217;t think Ottawa is doing enough, and 70 per cent strongly support government initiatives that would educate children on healthy choices.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t let your children go outside unattended (hence the desire for &#8220;recreation centres&#8221;, where the little snowflakes will be supervised at all times), they won&#8217;t get as much exercise. Without exercise, on a typical modern diet, they&#8217;ll gain weight. Having gained weight, they&#8217;ll be even less likely to voluntarily exercise. Rinse and repeat for 18 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents who fear to let their children go outside want the federal government to magically fix the problem the parents have created: The majority of parents believe they play a major role in whether their children are overweight, but many also want the government to build more recreation centres. [. . .] The survey done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,66,28],"tags":[374,150,375],"class_list":["post-12990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-health-science","category-media","tag-children","tag-obesity","tag-parents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3nw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12992,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions\/12992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}