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To: gracesdad
“...obesity has always been stigmatized.”

Including all too frequently right here on FR.

Makes you wish the monitor worked both ways so we could see what the stigmatizers looked like..

But FR is just a reflection of one part of Society. At the other end are the Fat Acceptance and "Big Is Beautful" people.

For me, it's not the weight issue that is a problem, it's the lack of fitness. I used to visit my niece at her college and have lunch with her and her friends. One would think, "Wow, being surrounded by college girls.."

Umm...pot bellies and flabby arms on both sexes. Too much internet, video games, etc.

We do not see children playing outdoors much or walking to school any more compared to a generation or two ago. The SUV caravans await the school bus so the kids do not have to waddle a few hundred feet.

Given this, of course we are getting fat and weak.

Here I am typing when there is a lawn to mow and a stump to dig out...

85 posted on 05/24/2008 3:05:08 AM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: Gorzaloon
The SUV caravans await the school bus so the kids do not have to waddle a few hundred feet.

Probably so that the parents don't have to worry about pervs snatching their kids.

102 posted on 05/24/2008 6:28:35 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (To the liberal, there's no sacrifice too big for somebody else to make. --FReeper popdonnelly)
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To: Gorzaloon
The SUV caravans await the school bus so the kids do not have to waddle a few hundred feet.

They're probably required by the school to do that so that the school bus drivers don't have to worry about inattentive kids running in front of them, or behind them.

124 posted on 05/29/2008 7:58:23 PM PDT by SuziQ
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