"Childhood Obesity is an epidemic."
The following statement just flashed on my TV screen: "Childhood Obesity is an epidemic."
Let me embrace the shark: are you kidding me?!? Is this sentence for real?!?
People are starving ... Oh, hell, just throw a dart at a map and you'll hit a country that is worse off than the U.S. They WISH they had a childhood obesity epidemic!
That's like King Henry VIII announcing, "Gouter is an epidemic." The serfs would burn those announcements.
America is a wealthy nation. In the old world, being overweight is a sign of WEALTH. Why are we shy about it? Why is the MSM and portions of the public obsessed with anorexic Hollywood stars?
I welcome comments on the topic of childhood obesity. Shark-jumping comments preferred. Godzilla's atomic breath awaits!
posted by Skew | Thursday, November 27, 2008
20 Comments:
AHHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!
Annabelle just asked me why I'm laughing. I read your post using your voice.
I don't see what's so funny.
Obesity presents numerous problems for my child. Childhood obesity is the leading cause of pediatric hypertension, and is associated with diabetes, increases the risk of coronary heart disease, increases stress on the weight-bearing joints, lowers self-esteem, and affects relationships with peers.
Young lives are at risk..and you guys are laughing about it?
This is a wave that is just moving through the population...it's a shame. I feel so bad for these kids.
It truly is a national catastrophe. A child is not just a little adult. They are still developing and changing.
They're robbed of the natural enjoyment of being a kid -- being able to play outside, run. If they have high blood pressure, they have a constant risk of stroke...it's a national epidemic.
Maybe Obama can do something about this.
Obese children are victimized and bullied. Not only do other children treat them differently, but teachers treat them differently. And if you look at obese adolescents, their acceptance into college differs. For obese girls, their socioeconomic status is lower. It cuts a broad swath.
More than 30,000 people are dying of starvation or readily preventable illness each day in Africa.
Despite this, hardly a week goes by when some boffin medical, social science or economics gurus don’t roll out some alarmist statistic about how fat we are getting.
Good for us
We’re gluttons. We prefer short term pleasures to long term health benefits.
It is part of what it means to be human. We prefer to a live a slightly shorter indulgent lifestyle than a robotic, disciplined constant grind. This is a perspective that is lost on the do-gooder, paternalistic, self-proclaimed lifestyle gurus who keep trying to stuff updated obesity statistics and cures down our throats.
It is about time they smelt the fresh baked cakes and got some perspective and realized that we are entitled to make informed choices that don’t conform to the ‘Living a Long but Boring Life 101’ practice manual.
who cares if parents are upset by this, they need to own up to being bad parents
Childhood obesity is a complicated issue without a single answer. Bringing up Godzilla and laughing is just wrong
For what it's worth, Brad Pitt is "obese," according to Paul Campos's book the Obesity Myth. So are all National Football League players.
global warming = childhood obesity = great depression ii
In 2002, Dr. William Klish of Texas Children's Hospital told the Houston Chronicle: "If we don't get this epidemic [of childhood obesity] in check, for the first time in a century children will be looking forward to a shorter life expectancy than their parents." Since then, Klish's statement has entered the lexicon of obesity scaremongers, making its way into countless articles, editorials, and even Congressional testimony -- all without so much as a shred of credible research to back it up. Klish himself has told the Center for Consumer Freedom that while he is the originator of this pessimistic prognostication, his claim does not come from "evidence-based research." Rather, he explained, "It's based on intuition."
Childhood obesity is a massive tsunami heading for the United States.
uhmm...children are being given the best possible start in life in the U.S. Children today are healthier and living longer than at any other time in history!
Overblown rhetoric about the "obesity epidemic" has itself reached epidemic proportions. Trial lawyers increasingly see dollar signs where the rest of us see dinner. Activists and bureaucrats are proposing radical "solutions" like zoning restrictions on restaurants and convenience stores, as well as extra taxes and warning labels on certain foods. As a collection of food cops and nutrition zealots gather in Virginia to fan the flames of the "obesity epidemic," the Center for Consumer Freedom is releasing an extensively documented booklet that exposes the flaws, bias, and outright myths behind this widespread plague of misinformation.
We are on the cusp of such a huge health crises due to overweight and obesity. For the 1st hour in quite a few generations, a digit of kids of this generation will have a lower life expectancy than their parents. Is this not a highly scary problem? This will additionally set a huge burden on medical facilities and the associated monetary costs.
My son weighs 200 lbs, and he's 8...I'm all for the media attention on this subject. There is plenty of awareness-raising and policy-making still left to be done to remedy this problem!
Hopefully, President-Elect Obama will do something!
I'm all for a more fair and balanced view. Weight has little bearing on health, until you get into extremes. A woman, for example of average height, can be up to 150 lbs "overweight" before it has a noticeable impact on morbidity. Not that you'd know that from the media. Guess what gives a higher morbidity rate than that? 5 pounds "under" or more.
Answer: 5 pounds under is worse.
Excellent observation.
way to break out of the MSM group-think matrix on this one and practice some original thinking of your own.
I know I would rather live in a country full of fat people than starve to death.
Im sick of hearing were a fat country and they keep reporting this as news and keep saying that we all need to go on a diet, speak for yourself.
I feel no guilt when i live in a country of fat people, Its not my fault.
what am I supposed to do, go up to fat people and try to guilt trip them out of eating?
these weight problems are personal and everybody needs to deal with themselves on an individual basis.
this is not a national problem that we all have to face together as a nation, and its not my problem
stop guilt tripping me like I did something wrong media.
if the guy next to me is fat I dont care and I dont feel shame as an "american" about it either.
I feel nothing.
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