April Is National Child Abuse Prevention Month - 30 Tips and Facts in 30 Days

With certainty, fattening kids up by making them overweight/obese is child abuse.

Nutritional child abuse is the most common form of child abuse of which we are aware. About one-third of all kids are overweight or obese. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month in the USA. To help these children, who are arguably the most abused on earth, Fitness Watch will offer 30 tips and facts – one for each day in April – directed at saving the children. Even if you are not from the USA, these facts and tips can help you and your children, too.

Today’s Fact – Today we will expose another myth popular in the weight debate. That myth has to do with the “genetic” cause of overweight/obesity.

It is a lie.

There is no "genetics" anywhere on the planet that will cause any organism to become overweight/obese in the absence of consuming more Calories than are burned.

That is why there will never be a genetic “cure” to overweight/obesity, even if humans become so good at manipulating genetics that they can make a difference in a human’s genes.

Think about it. Suppose we became really good at genetic manipulation and could change a human being into a cat. What happens when you feed a cat more Calories than it burns? It gains weight.

What happens when you feed a cat fewer Calories than it burns? It loses weight.

There is never, ever going to be a genetic cure for the overweight/obesity of children, because genetics did not cause them to get overweight/obese.

Kids get overfat from too many Calories. Period.

If you are waiting for the “genetic cure” to rescue your kids, you will wait until both you and they are long gone.

A genetic “cause” for overweight/obesity is nothing more than an excuse not to act, a reason not to face the facts.

The time to act is now. The action to take is to control the Calories the kids consume.