Youth Obesity

Spin or Freeze?

 

Tuesday afternoon February 2^nd cosy indoors buy crisp and snowy outdoors; yes it has been showing here in blighty (UK) for a couple of days. The experts claim that it has not snowed like this for over two decades. I must admit it does seem a lot longer than that when I woke up to literally 12” of fluffy white snow.

What was really wonderful yesterday is that there were no cars on the road, few trains and not any trains were running where we live in Surrey and you won’t believe this, we certainly didn’t....there were families playing in the snow in the road.

We mucked in with a snowball fight against the kids who were on the opposite site of the road, it was great fun as everyone forgot about their troubles with the economic downturn, their spirits were lifted, big smiles on their faces and laughter in the air which has been absent for a very long time here in the UK and this probably applies to other parts of the word too.

After the snowball fight, which us parents lost,  we ended up drinking piping hot chocolate and talking in general until the conversation was engineered by Christine one of the mum’s who began telling us about her unusual experiences during a spa vacation in the US recently.

We were in stitches laughing at the tales she was telling us that she was encouraged to partake in order to lose fat!!

Can you imagine taking ice cold showers? Er... NO!!

Can you imagine spinning round like a top? Er... NO!!

As she was going through her daily rituals over the fourteen days at the spa I began to ponder at the implications of trying to motivate the children and youth of today to even contemplate doing the above let alone physically spinning on the spot or taking ice cold showers at the fear of renal failure or passing out and injuring yourself.

Can you image your child spinning like a top, losing balance and banging their head on the coffee table, your child is out cold now try to move that dead weight, it is very very difficult.

I must admit I was fascinated by the story Christine was telling us yesterday so I contacted a couple of physicians for clarity and I was pleasantly surprised at what they came back with.

Apparently, just checking my notes as I busily scribbled away as Tom spoke on the phone  - I must apologise if I am not 100% accurate on this one but do bear with me....as I was saying, there are several glands within the body part of the Endocrine System that serve to balance your metabolism, growth, weight, hormone and how you feel.

They seem to work together when they are circulating round and round within you just like a spinning top so when they are in tune or moving at a constant velocity you are in fact quite healthy and the opposite applies when you not healthy with the circulating slowing down....I hope this make some sense to you.

So to recap; does spinning like a top lose weight and make you feel wonderful well perhaps it does I am not 100 % convinced but there seems to be a plethora of unusual nuances to assist in losing weight or making you feel better in yourself.

Going back to our overweight and obese kids can you see your kids getting to grips with “Spinning” other than perhaps to have a laugh!!! I think not, especially if your kid is sensitive and lacking in confidence then having the family make a mockery would probably be the last straw.

Therefore, I can recommend you to look at alternatives but with your eyes wide open if it sounds too scary or pie in the sky then use my expression “If in Doubt – Back Out”.

Stability, focus and support will be the ingredients needed to bring about massive amounts of change in your child this will be achieved by aligning yourself with the very best that money can buy.....bit of a misconception but I thought I would throw you a curve ball....money does not buy you happiness; health or love....we all know this.

With that thought in mind “The Youth Obesity Solution” by Brian Grasso who is the founder and CEO of IYCA in America is the authority on getting children to move more, feel good about themselves and gives that all important support that is so badly needed.

We strongly recommend that you (Click Here) and visit Brian Grasso on the other side who will show you the path to take to achieving your long term goals and immediate short term goal which will include his amazing “60 Day FUN Packed program”.

Thank you for reading this article, I have enjoyed writing it from the heart and I look forward to hearing from you in the near future with your testimonials.

I am now going sledging -  time to be a BIG KID............

 

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