The parents would have more money if they stopped buying so much food for their FAT children. These inner-city kids are so fat that many have Type II, adult-onset diabetes.
What poor people must do to fight poverty.
- graduate High School - marry someone with at least a high school diploma - marry before having children - when married, have children after the age of 23
These are the basics which I read about in the WSJ a few months ago.
"The parents would have more money if they stopped buying so much food for their FAT children."
They just want to be like the female Dim senators I saw on stage a half hour ago. WOW!!
Well, that tears it. Obviously, we need a Cabinet-level solution: The Office of National Fat-Ass Control Policy.
It's worked wonders with the ONDCP and every other successful alphabet agency... why not declare a War on Fat?
God knows, we can't solve a problem without letting government "fix" it for us.
The libs love to create a crisis, so they can use money and education to rescue us poor fools. The real problem here are words like obesity and poverty. The standards have changed so much over the years you have 140 lb women and 180 pound men classified as "obese" and anyone who makes less than 80,000 dollars a year as "poor"..
a couple of years ago, we were technically "under the poverty level" and yet owned 3 well maintained, running vehicles, owned our own home, sent one of our children to private school, and lived with all the "normal" comforts of American society. We were able to do that because we didn't bog ourselves down in credit card debt and only bought what we could pay for.
I live in an area of high welfare use/abuse and have seen many families on welfare using cell phones and owning fancy stereo systems and big screen tvs. The word poverty in this country is often a joke, to see true poverty you must go to India or South America or Mexico.
Initiative expanded to promote healthy eating and physical activity among children
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich today announced that 14 additional elementary schools have been selected to participate in an Initiative designed to promote good nutrition and exercise habits.
The program, called CATCH (Coordinated Approach to Child Health), began in January [2004] with six schools and eventually may be expanded to schools statewide.
"Obesity has become a critical health program for our children and, if unchecked, is on pace to become the leading cause of preventable death in this country," Blagojevich said. "As adults, we must teach our children how to lead healthier lives. To that end, I am pleased that we can expand this pilot program to additional schools so that other children will have the opportunity to learn how to make better food choices and to increase their activity level."
CATCH is a multi-component health intervention program, which builds an alliance of parents, teachers, child nutrition personnel, school staff and community partners to teach children and their families how to be healthy throughout their lives. It is targeted at students in third through fifth grade. [End of excerpt]
Are you serious?what about fat kids that have money and educated parents? What would you suggest for them?
Both problems are probably government induced.
Government pays people to be poor.
Government pushes a starch based food pyramid.
Government could go back to doing what it's supposed to do, basically, leaving everyone alone.