"She's fat. Bush's fault."
I can't find part 2. Maybe it comes on Monday?
Minority youth are most severely affected, because so many are pushing the scales into the most dangerous territory.
So obesity in children is not only a problem, it’s a racial/ethnic problem too. Okay...................
And there’s got to be a way to bash Bush for this. Have food stamp benefits been cut while Bush has been pres.? Or not kept up with inflation? That would fit the news media template of poor people not being able to get the most nutritious food, that they have to get high fat high sugar junk food for their kids.
See, it’s all because of Republicans. Elect a good Democrat such as Obama, and these problems will disappear.
I doubt the taste of their own medicine will be 99% fat free.
"She's fat. Bush's fault."
I’d like to see the water rising on the Potomac. I’d like that very much.
Mostly the poor and minorities.
So. Which is it? Is there an obesity crisis (I believe there is) or are American kids going to bed every night starving?
A friend of mine chaperoned a zoo trip for middle school students a few weeks ago and was stunned at how many didn’t even have the stamina to walk around for more than ten minutes.
Within the last year or so we discussed dietary habits of Hispanic kids in South Texas. They were offered good nutritious food in schools along with education about nutrition, but not a single one of them would eat anything but their traditional high carb, high fat diets — and several times more food than their not-fat ancestors ate. Disgusting. They did’t care what they look like or how sick they get.
There are some interesting treatments for obesity in development, but importantly, there are lots of people who, for philosophical reasons, don’t want such remedies available.
Much like the MMGW crowd, they are emotionally invested in the idea that the *only* way to be healthy is to eat health food, however they define it, and to overexercise.
They will fight any other lifestyle that might achieve even better results, because it is different from the one they believe in.
And while they have any number of kooky ideas, for the most part they agree on one thing: pleasure is bad, and must be avoided, unless it has concomitant pain.
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