Ruskin Childhood Obesity Summary

According to Ruskin (2003), “the rise of childhood obesity is part of a larger story: how corporations have laid claim to children’s imagination and play—to childhood itself.” Ruskin (2003) also states that “in the process of redefining children as “consumers”, corporations have redefined the nature of childhood disease.” He says that “our children suffer not from the results of infection or lack, but from the role the commercial culture has assigned them” (Ruskin, 2003). Obese children have a low quality of life, similar to those with cancer and are more likely to develop serious chronic diseases, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and have a shorter life span. (Ruskin, 2003). “Most children today sit too much and play too little. They