Garbage Pail Kids? How bout Couch Potato Kids?

[MrAngryFace]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23358982/

"It was the worst day of my life when I was there and they're going, 'You're killing him. You're not doing him any favors by giving him another piece of cake,'" she says. "You give this child life and you don't stop that. I brought him here and basically now I was wrecking him."

Thanks largely to medical and public health advances, Americans are living longer than ever. The average life expectancy in 2005, the latest year for which figures are available, was nearly 78. That's up from 47 in 1900 and 68 in 1950.

But even as the market for anti-aging pills and products has never been hotter with Americans seeking a longer life, some experts say we as a nation are doing ourselves in with our couch-potato culture of eating way too much and exercising far too little. Some health professionals even raise the controversial notion that today's generation of kids like Justin — about a third of whom are overweight or obese — may be the first to live shorter lives than their parents.

'Like advanced aging'
"All of the signs are pointing in the wrong direction," says Dr. Jennifer Shu, an Atlanta pediatrician and spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

"Young kids are getting what have traditionally been adult-type diseases — type 2 diabetes and heart disease," she says. "It's like advanced aging."

"These kids are headed for real trouble," agrees S. Jay Olshansky, a professor of public health and a researcher at the Center on Aging at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Their parents may not be faring so well, either, he says. Two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese.

[demi]

Dur

[MrAngryFace]

Are those your kids, Demi?

[demi]

They could be.

[MrAngryFace]

Don't feed them so much food. You're killing them!

[demi]

I'm doing the world a favor

[MrAngryFace]

At least get them an Xbox, cable tv rots brains.

[Phoenix Dark]

how do people get that fat 

[MrAngryFace]

Probably has something to do with the couch and the food.

[xnikki118x]

It disgusts me to see fattie parents out with their fattie kids. Especially with like really young kids, they don't know any better. It's like a form of child abuse or something. Ugh.