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23 Things American Parents Usually Do and the Rest of the World Doesn’t

Growing up in the United States definitely comes with a lot of fun, but we tend to assume that just because we were raised a certain way, everyone else had…

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5. We give huge portions to our children

Yes, it’s true, we, Americans, love to eat. We love to eat good food, in huge portions if possible.

In fact, the United States has the highest per capita calorie consumption in the world, so numbers are definitely not lying.

However, when we’re exposing our kids to huge portions from an early age, we put them at a very high risk of obesity.

In other parts of the world, children are allowed to eat only small portion sizes, that’s why the obesity rates are much lower than in the United States.

Read also: 5 Tricks to Work From Home and Stop Kids From Interrupting You.

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