Why do people make a big deal out of childhood obesity?

does it really matter look back to the olden days where kids were very skinny thats un healthy so what if they are chubby!

us kids these days have enough low selfesteem without you lot making it worse for critizing our weight

simply put: surveys have shown that fat kids become fat adults. Not a difficult idea to understand. Sorry to hear you have low self-esteem, let's see how it works for you when you have a life full of health problems.

Being slightly overweight or chubby is one thing, being obese is another.

As a child, if you're obese, you're setting yourself up with bad lifelong habits. When you're young, that is the best time to start developing a healthy relationship with food.

The list of problems you may encounter due to obesity seems endless. Worrying about childhood obesity is not meant to be a criticism of individual kids, it's meant to send parents a wake up call that their children are ruining their health.

A bit chubby is not the problem -- it's morbid obesity in pre-adolescent children that's scary. Severe obesity early in life makes kids more susceptible to both chronic and potentially lethal conditions later in life -- things like diabetes and heart disease.

We parents love our children more than anything. It hurts us to the heart to see the children in our world facing these issues. We aren't trying to just criticize, but to get our kids healthy again.

Because being overweight is unhealthy.

There are some ridiculously overweight kids out there, and adults are only trying to make their life better by getting them in a healthy weight class.

When adults say that children are overweight these days, they aren't trying to be the bad guy.

You say being very skinny is unhealthy, yet you're the one barely eating and saying that being anorexic makes you "nice and thin"? I don't understand...:S :? :)

Obesity kills a lot of people.

Why do you make a big deal out of people who read books? You've never even read before, so HOW do you know it's boring?

It's unhealthy and dramatically increases health risks and decreases life expectancy.