“Mmmmmm...veal.”
I smell government intervention coming..
Get ready, here comes the fat tax.
I see it every day here in mid-Missouri at work...I’d say that 40-50% of the patients I care for are morbidly obese...and not just by the ‘governments’ standards which are IMO low.
I can never understand how someone who is say 5’8” gets to 350+ pounds...when they were 5’8” and weighed 250 lbs, didn’t they notice a problem?
And the saddest thing is when you see a young child who is morbidly obese...I’ve seen 10 y.o. kids weighing more than 200 lbs...usually the parents are correspondingly large too.
Being markedly overweight has tremendous health concerns.
This comes from parents who say “no” but are unwilling to make it stick.
Kids need to have a certain amount of healthy fear of authority—and before everyone flames me, let me explain:
Children need to know that when a parent says, “Don’t touch the cookies” the parent means it. They have to know that the parent’s authority vs their disobedience can cause a consequence that the child will not like AT ALL. I don’t care if it’s a suspension of a privilege, a swat on the rear, grounding, or taking away the cell phone.
If parents cannot or will not discipline (make followers of) their children, cannot or will not learn what a child needs to eat and needs NOT to eat, cannot or will not punish a child for eating sweets when told not to do so, then the parents are to blame.
If the parents are also obese, then they need to get up, get moving, and get away from the table.
Where I live, all the original playground equipment has been removed by lawyerial fiat because “we have to protect the children.”
Wrong! Have them turn off the X-box, put down the ho-hos and go outside and play. They'll be amazed what regular activity and a healthy diet will do.
“Mmmmmm...veal.”
In all of these articles about fats kids from the UK, I have never seen any mention of any classes in Phsy Ed. Does the British school system have that as part of the curriculum or not??
Put SUBWAY JARED in charge.....
Two years ago my daughter went over to Germany for a month, in the Black Forest Area. We also had a young lady stay with us for about the same time. My daughter, while in Germany lost appox. 15 lbs (yes she is on the heavy side).
At the same time the very petite German girl was distressed that she had gained some weight.
The problem is the Germans appear to be eating ALL the time. Not good stuff either. Sausages, cheese, breads, pizza, cake, all the time. While daughter was over in Germany, she is telling me that the favorite fast morning food was to spread Nutello (cake icing basically) on toast!
I'm telling you all, overeating the wrong foods might be part of it, but it's not the whole story. Something else is at work here.
‘’Hänsel und Gretel’’ Alert