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[–] GreatDrok ago 

Portions are way out of proportion to our needs these days. I look at how much adults eat and then see parents feeding kids with similar portion sizes and it is no wonder those kids are enormous. That and the school run. When I was a kid I always walked to school (back in the 70's and 80's) and so did everyone else. By the 90's though, thanks to the media pushing the idea that the world is full of child predators, parents started driving their kids to school so that little bit of vital exercise has also been lost. Oddly enough, we don't feed our son too much (and have sensible portions for ourselves), and he eats plenty of fruit and vegetables, plus we walk him to school every day so we get a bit of exercise too. None of us are fat. Plenty of our friends and their kids are too but don't dare raise it in conversation because they'll swear they're big boned or they have low metabolism (fat people actually have higher metabolisms, they just eat too much)