Darryl, You and I agree on a lot of things and while I certainly agree that our kids don't get outside nearly enough, we can only blame parents for getting lazy...putting them in front of a TV sure takes the load off but...

I don't have kids so I'm not going to make anymore accusation comments for which I probably can't really associate with. However, we probably also need to consider that our society is becoming increasingly technical. My generation was the first to see 'computers' before high school (I'm 34) but they are such an important part of our lives today. Technology has changed a lot and kids probably NEED to be gamers in order to be able to work with the technology they will be faced with in the future. So what to do?

Has anyone seen the flick "Super Size Me"? It's a documentary about a guy that goes 30 days eating nothing but food from McDonalds. He went for an top 20% healthy guy at 180lbs to somewhere around 210 and the doctors that were monitoring him (after begging him to stop near the end) explained that his liver function looked like that of a binging alcoholic. Although the taint of the film was toward bad publicity for fast food, it should be pretty clear that if people would buy slightly more expensive, healthy, and not-quite-so-yummy food that it would be sold at fast food restaurants. Instead, in order to make the (large) dime, they sell what people want – can you prosecute them for that?