A lot of countries has now children and even adult getting fat. In France or South America, government try to below high calorific food or drinks by taxing them. In Thai young children like to eat new western food to show western fashion with friend by going kfc, mac do, .... and drink more coca, soda.... High calorific consumption made the body stock fat. This is explained by medicine that people who eat poor or even balanced food for long time suddenly change to calorific regime made the gene who has habit with low caloric so it orders the body to stock fat in case the calorific regime below. It is a natural reaction of the body to stock fat (caloric) to prevent hunger state.

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It drives my wife crazy but would get her on a diet.

To do exercise is a mean for the body burn the fat and liberate the caloric but it doesn't solve the phenomena. Too much diet is also not good, it will make the body to stock fat more quickly to prevent the state of caloric food missing. The best way is to eat healthy food,  make the body balanced, try not to go to food places to avoid temptation or choose only healthy food.

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 Thai kids getting fat or just the wealthy ones? 

 

The hotel I stayed at has a pretty good mix of traveLers from all over the globe and many of the kids were obese...not just from Thailand.

 

Obesity seems like a disease of the affluent the world over. What a terrible handicap the parents are forcing on their kids.