MessyONE, that's not about fat, it's about lifestyle.

And if you wanna know why kids have fatter lifestyles today, it has nothing to do with calories - a big mac was a big mac 30 years ago. Rather, it's twofold: first, economics, parents spend a lot more cash on their kids and kids with more disposable income will spend more of it on crap food because kids make bad choices.

Second, it's the insane every-teacher-a-child-molester­-and-every-man-a-rapist nancy grace, 24-hour news cycle view that frets constantly over "protecting" children from every conceivable danger real or imagined. THAT's why kids don't get the same exercise they did 30, 40, 50 years ago.

You let kids go out and wander around, they'll get active. You force them onto a lame-ass playground, yeah, not so much.