these days more and children are overweight a name for being axtenely overweight is obese. why is this happening doctor,teacher and other adults..... that children are not geeting the right arnount of exercise and are not eating the right kind off food in the past children used to be ...active. in eary america.there was a lot of wwork to be done childrn ..on the farm and in the factorics chifdren did... have yime to sit around.today children go to school and come ..to wach televison or play game.too many of their activities inloves siting and not being active enough. children are not getting enough...,such as running wwalking or riding a bike