Pizza, pasta, patate, proteine: come i bambini italiani sono diventati così sovrappeso

>Daily life is not easy for Salvatore. **At 17, he weighs 170kg (26st 10lb) and struggles to walk.**
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>He can’t tie his own shoelaces and his Vespa scooter strains to bear his weight – in one week, its wheels broke seven times.
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>”He eats constantly,” says his mother Anna.

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>**Francesca, 10, weighs 60kg** but her parents say they have never considered her weight as a problem

As a parent myself and as someone that works in schools in Germany – I can only say, that there are a LOT of uneducated (regarding foods and effect on the body/teeth), unhealthy and unathletic adults who then become parents and guess what -> results are basically the same.
Also many parents don’t want to bring their children to eat or do activities that they don’t want to and aren’t role models themselves.

Doesn’t seem as bad as in Italy but I would wager that that’s only a matter of time.

Edit: spelling.

I’d be curious to know the rates of child obesity by Italian region

…protein? What? 🤔😂

“The transformation is visible everywhere: from supermarket shelves stocked with ultra-processed foods to pizzerias selling slices piled high with chips, sausages and fried snacks.”

“10 year old Francesca, who weighs 60kg, says she eats bread with Nutella for breakfast, a chocolate-filled sponge cake as a snack, pasta with lentils for lunch and usually chicken for dinner. But she doesn’t eat vegetables,” her mother, Carmen, interjects”

“When we go out for pizza, people don’t just order a Margherita. They put chips, sausages and fried food on top. – Carmen, 19”

Ah so its not because of the ‘Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein’ but because they actually just eat ultra processed slop, thanks BBC.

Such a misleading title!

Just yesterday I was talking with my Greek girlfriend about how easy it must be to eat healthy if you’re from the Mediterranean. In Finland we’re forced (more or less by parents) or heavily recommended to have like 1/3rd of the plate in greens so salad/veggies. I hated it, because our salads are bland and crap. These lunatics also like to put peach and other fruit into salads like it’s no big deal.. I don’t get it. So you’re basically traumatized since school cafeteria to avoid salads.

But a greek salad with balsamico, feta and fresh tomatoes? Man I can literally become a vegetarian without batting an eye.

Of course your kids will become fatties if you just feed them pasta with parmesan every day.

I’m sure the fast food and other industrial processed crap, in any form, is the major contributing factor.

French people avoid fast food and processed crap, but they eat plenty of “bad” carbohydrates and all the things we’re supposed to avoid, and they don’t have anything like an obesity problem. Walking around France, it’s very obvious how slim and healthy they are.

It’s shocking that the less purchasing power you observe in a region, the more obesity is prevalent.

Like – come on, we need to do better with food regulation and salary disparity in the EU.

I mean… we have other things going on in Italian cuisine too. Like I get the point but we have a lot of other food items as well, a *lot* of them being vegetables and fish.

foot is good>no sport/sit on your phone all day>weight gain.

Stupid article, pizza and pasta aren’t the problem: the problem is having too high of a total caloric intake and a lack of physical activity.

Also Italy has one of the lowest obesity rates in Europe according to the statistics

Buuhhh, I eat around 400 grams of pasta everyday without a skip. Around 400 grams of veggies. Lots of mayo and olive oil, 6 slices of bread with Nutella and some cookies here and there to finish it off. And guess what. Still lean AF and abs and muscles everywhere. It’s not the pasta making you fat. it’s your calories in calories out. We should all stop overcomplicating everything.

Go fakking weigh yourself. Measure your belly. Weigh everything for 2 weeks what you normally eat and count the calories. Et voila. You now know how much you eat and adjust accordingly to your goals. 

It’s not fucking hard. People are stupid.

If you are a fat piece of shit I will judge you and say it right in to your face when your size becomes a problem in public spaces. 

Get some brains everyone.

As an Italian, walking around the country I didn’t notice that many overweight kids. At least not in the North.

PPPP doesn’t make you overweight, eating too much food makes you overweight.

It’s not just about education, ultra processed foods are LITERALLY there to get you addicted to the taste and feeling of dopamine that you get from eating them and idk why are people defending these genuinely cancerous foods, if they were blanket banned society would improve.

Italians have eaten like this for several hundred years but the large percentage of overweight children is a new thing. So, I am thinking “not pasta.”

I’m living in northern Italy (not th seaside) and no one eats vegetables, the older people consider potatoes as veggies and I have to argue with them in the care home to get them to eat veggies. The diets are made for hady active people that l live in the cold harsh countryside and burn all those Calories but the world just isn’t like that anymore. It really shocked me in the beginning (and I gained a lot of weight in the first year without even realising)