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Study Claims More Kids Are Fat And Unhealthy Because Of Global Warming

https://summit.news/2022/08/16/study-claims-more-kids-are-fat-and-unhealthy-because-of-global-warming/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23328940.2022.2102375
https://summit.news/2020/09/29/instagram-promotes-obesity-while-refusing-ads-for-weight-loss-programs/
https://summit.news/2022/06/09/health-researchers-call-for-term-morbidly-obese-to-be-memory-holed/
https://summit.news/2020/08/25/new-woke-wonder-woman-slammed-as-overweight-badly-dressed-frump/

A study published in the journal Temperature has claimed that there is
a correlation between rising temperatures and children becoming fatter
and more unhealthy.

The study claims that climate change is causing more children to stay
inside, eat more, and be generally less active.

CBS Mornings covered the “findings” this past weekend, noting that
almost a third of kids are less fit than they were a generation ago.

It also notes that fewer children are engaging in physical activity
for 60 minutes a day.

The core argument of the study concerns “heat stress assessment” and
claims that it is more ‘dangerous’ and less fun for children to be
active if it’s warmer outside.

    Today’s children are 30% less aerobically fit than their parents
were at their age, a new study found.

    The study points to climate change and rising temperatures
adversely affecting childhood obesity, as children spend less time
exercising outdoors. pic.twitter.com/26WehoLK9I
    — CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) August 13, 2022

Critics have noted that the study uses stats recorded during the COVID
lockdowns, and as such it may be skewed.

It notes “Climate change will not only exert direct effects like
higher ambient temperatures in many regions but it will also be
responsible for indirect effects that can independently affect child
physical activity habits, for example as observed during the Covid-19
global pandemic.”

Perhaps the fact that children are becoming obese and unhealthy is
more to do with the fact that their parents increasingly feed them
unhealthy (more affordable) food, coupled with the fact that society
encourages, protects and even celebrates unhealthy lifestyles.

This point was recently amplified by Bill Maher, who noted that “It’s
Orwellian how often positivity is used to describe what’s not
healthy!”