Responsibility

I recently saw a story on the internet about some research that said that genetics may cause obesity in children. Of course, they stated that children of obese mothers are more likely to be obese. They just disproved their own theory. Ok, what ACTUALLY causes obesity? Bad eating and not exercising enough (there may be other causes, but those are the main ones) Ok, if you're obese, it's pretty safe to say that you're not exercising enough and not eating the right foods, if you're a mother, then you (usually) live in the same house as your children. And that means that they'll get the same view of the refridgerator as you do, thus they'll eat (mostly) the same foods as you.

Kids look up to their parents, if they see their parents sitting around, then they'll sit around.

I also saw a story about how they're considering banning "unhealthy" food ads from kid-oriented TV shows. Ok, i'm not even going to start on the obvious 1st amendment violations here. But why does the government think that they can stop kids from getting obese? Why do they have to be the parent here? It's about personal responsibility, something that is long gone from our culture, we're a reactionary culture, "if i'm fat, it's not my fault, it must be genetics" it's nothing more than a cop-out.