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Bullies Target Obese Kids
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| May 3
| Serena Gordon
Posted on 05/03/2010 9:25:04 AM PDT by JoeProBono
For kids, a few extra pounds may invite trouble from the schoolyard bully.
New research suggests that just being overweight increases the risk of being bullied. And factors that usually play a role in the risk of being bullied, such as gender, race and family income levels, don't seem to matter if you're overweight -- being overweight or obese trumps all those other factors when it comes to aggressive behavior from other children.
The study found that being overweight increased the risk of being the target of bullying by 63 percent....
(Excerpt) Read more at health.usnews.com ...
TOPICS: Education; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: bullies; bullying; jpb; obesity; overweight
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To: JoeProBono
To: JoeProBono
New research suggests that just being overweight increases the risk of being bullied. So is being short, or a stutterer, or just different.
I gotta start a "research" company, studing things like "is water wet" or "do birds fly."
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:27:13 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The frog who rides on a scorpion should not be surprised when he last hears "it is my nature.")
To: JoeProBono
They needed a study for this? What ... do people just not remember being a 2nd grade kid?
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:27:37 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: freedumb2003
... is the Pope a Catholic ... do bears excrete in the woods ... does water run downhill ...
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:29:25 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(There's a perfectly good island somewhere.)
To: JoeProBono
.......then the bullies just get older and become socialists.....and tell us how to live.
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:29:58 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
To: JoeProBono
South Park already has come up with a solution to this problem. When Cartman was being bullied, he simply killed the bully’s parents and fed them to him in chili.
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:29:58 AM PDT
by
nhoward14
(A mind is a terrible thing to waste. That is why Obama gave his away.)
To: JoeProBono
The study found that being overweight increased the risk of being the target of bullying by 63 percent....Ya know, all the so called researchers might be more productive parenting their own kids rather than wasting time and tax dollars on already known facts.
No, it's probably better if they don't spend more time influencing their kids.
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:30:26 AM PDT
by
bgill
(how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
To: JoeProBono
New research suggests that just being overweight increases the risk of being bullied.
Awwwwwwwwwwww.
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:30:41 AM PDT
by
Adder
(Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09! WTFU!)
To: Snickering Hound
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:30:43 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: nhoward14
Ah, but it turned out that the bully's father was Eric's father as well ...
... and Eric has ginger-blood in him as well ...
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:31:37 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
To: JoeProBono
Thats funny, because when I was a kid, all the bullies WERE the Obese ones.. lol
I suspect as we saw with smoking, when they went after that, Obesity will now “cause” everything and be responsible for every evil known to man.
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:32:23 AM PDT
by
eXe
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: JoeProBono
They needed “research” to determine that fat kids get picked on?
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:33:19 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(The last 15 months have been a sh*tty deal for America.)
To: BlueLancer
I guess that all came out in “201” which I have yet to see.
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:33:24 AM PDT
by
nhoward14
(A mind is a terrible thing to waste. That is why Obama gave his away.)
To: JoeProBono
Did ta dollars go into this "study"?
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:35:21 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: JoeProBono
I don’t think this is news. I think this has always been the case.
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:35:51 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: JoeProBono
BAN FAT KIDS.
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:46:49 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: brytlea
from time immemorial no doubt this has been a fact...that is given a Micky Ds was in the vicinity. lol
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:49:49 AM PDT
by
Gasshog
(going to get what all those libs asked for, but its not what they expected.)
To: JoeProBono
It may help their obesity problem if they are always running away from bullies.
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:49:56 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: JoeProBono
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