Portion sizes are forever skewed to HUGE, the fats are stuffing their kids! My kids are in a group where I and other moms alternate bringing snacks. I'd skip the snacks altogether but whatever, I'm not in charge. I had been the mom who passed out the snacks, but I noticed that the fat moms would always do things like this:  1) Have strange food rules where if the kids ate something sweet, like cookies, they'd also NEED to have something salty with it, like chips. Like cookies weren't enough junk for the day? They MUST have the salty, too. Why? I don't understand. My mom taught me to limit junk and pair it with something healthier, not eat more junk to go with the junk. 2) Be completely fine with kids getting seconds, thirds, and fourths of the crappy snacks while the kids didn't eat any of the fruit. No wonder their fat kids don't eat fruit, they've never tasted it because their mouths are too filled with cookies and "froot" snacks. It's only fat kids that won't eat fruit, by the way. Kids have preferences on food and some don't like all kinds of food, but it's only the fat kids who won't eat any fruit at all. The thin kids are thrilled with extra fruit. The fat kids also WHINE for extra crap. God forbid they don't get a second cupcake like they are used to eating.  3) Fat moms give the kids at least double what a reasonable portion size should be for a child. Even with healthy food, the portion size is HUGE.  4) Typically come to meetings with a large beetusjuice. They drink it while they discuss their exercise routines, their 10,000 fitbit steps, and their "healthy living" plans (which I think are what is replacing diet plans because "diets don't work").  Several of them I know have very serious medical conditions that are affected by being so overweight, and they still do nothing about their weight.  Example: I counted one time, one plate was over 20 almonds (about 145 calories), 32 raisins (50 calories), and the killer...about 6 ounces of cheese (684 calories!). For a SNACK. So yeah, that food is all what I would consider to be food with nutritional value, but the calories in that cheese, wow. I'd have given max about 5 almonds, 15 raisins, and an ounce of cheese (two dice).  I took one of my kids to get measured for her new sports-related outfit and the woman exclaimed that she didn't know what size to get her because she was so tall and skinny. I just took my kid to the pediatrician and she's exactly proportional, average (on the chart) for weight and height, neither thin nor fat. However, she did look very thin next to so many other fat kids there.  These children are going to have diabetes at 12. I'm thinking that maybe we'll need "assisted living care facilities" for 20 year olds. I don't know what can be done to get it through that these are not healthy portion sizes or healthy eating habits. When I was little most of the adults were thin, except for "old people." Now even the young parents are FAT. So many of them could have been in the circus a hundred years ago.  On my snack days I switched to bringing only healthyish snacks that are preportioned, and only enough to have a single serving.