“Children today are sicker than they were a generation ago. From childhood cancers to autism, birth defects and asthma, a wide range of childhood diseases and disorders are on the rise. Our assessment of the latest science leaves little room for doubt; pesticides are one key driver of this sobering trend.” October 2012 report by Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)

Today's parents are having their children’s pediatrician telling them that their 11-year-old son has Type 2 diabetes, or that their 16-year-old daughter has osteoporosis. No these are not genetic disorders!

The out-of-control lifestyles created by adults over the past 30-40 years has led to a 50% increase in the diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes—the kind of obesity-related diabetes once known as "adult onset" because it wasn't usually diagnosed until the age 50 or older.

"Our children today are malnourished". While childhood obesity in India is on rapid rise last two decades in urban India there are also millions of kids who are weak, low in energy and immunity. The studies have also shown how parents in India are mostly unaware that their children are underweight or overweight or obese. Most of them also assume that when they grow up as adults they will become normal.

Parents in India need to be aware of the overall impact of current lifestyle in the future health of their children, and accordingly make necessary changes in the environmental factors that are in their control.

They can reverse these trends if they start making their children understand importance of below items by also following themselves.

* eating healthy nutritious food,
* preferring plant based seasonal items free from harmful pesticides,
* increasing physical activities,
* discouraging unhealthy eating of junk, fatty and processed foods or carbonated drinks,
* never allowing a child to skip regular meals, especially breakfast,
* putting an end to the usage of food as a reward.

-Lavanya

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