A Solution to Childhood Obesity in America

Obesity in American kids is a tremendous health (physical and psychological) problem, just check out these statistics:

18% of children are "obese", a number that has tripled since 1980

In Children from 12-19 years old, the rate has increased from 5% to 17.4% in the same period

70% of obese children become obese odults

The general cause of this is twofold: inactivity and poor nutrition.

One reason that many people eat too much is that they eat too fast. If you eat quickly, your body doesn't have time to tell you that you're full, and so eat past the point you would if you ate slowly.

My solution: force every child to eat with chopsticks! Living in Vietnam, I eat many meals with chopsticks, and it takes me FOREVER to finish a plate of food. Compare to eating with a spoon, it takes me 5x longer to eat something whe I use chopsticks.

So, my solution again (albeit tongue in cheek), is to get rid of all the forks in schools and replace them with chopsticks.