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Feds Spend $499,880 to Teach Doctors How to Talk to Fat Kids
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | January 16, 2015 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 01/17/2015 12:12:36 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
LOLOL... right?
21 posted on 01/17/2015 12:34:11 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

well i am glad my tax dollars are used for important things like this, instead of for my children’s college tuition


22 posted on 01/17/2015 12:35:53 PM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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To: fatnotlazy

I don’t get it.

Personally I find eating to be a chore. Something that is necessary but I tend to put it off as long as I can.


23 posted on 01/17/2015 12:36:09 PM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: knarf
@ first glance, I thought that was a candy bar. 😆
24 posted on 01/17/2015 12:39:46 PM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: skinkinthegrass

“STOP EATING”

You remind me of my Dad. If I said I can’t lose weight,that was his response. Just don’t eat.

Dad was a little guy — about 5’4” or so and most of the time around 130 pounds. In the winter months when he might not be as active, he would add maybe 5 pounds. When he did, he would cut out bedtime snacks for a day or two. In no time, his weight was back to normal.

Doesn’t work that way for me. Took me almost 4 years to lose 88 pounds. I lose maybe a pound here, a half pound there, and some weeks I lose nothing.

My point is that for some of us, weight loss isn’t as simple as don’t eat and increase exercise. Some of us do the best we can, but for whatever reason, weight loss is a slow and difficult process.

By the way, the above is not an excuse. It’s just the way it is.


25 posted on 01/17/2015 12:39:59 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: dfwgator
Better.

Better get a Bucket.

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26 posted on 01/17/2015 12:46:15 PM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Zeneta

Bariatric surgery - risky business that. At least one of our members died from complications of it. (Texas Flower)


27 posted on 01/17/2015 12:46:34 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Much violence and crime can be explained by the Bell Curve (Bing it))
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To: fatnotlazy
Try septicemia of the blood and dehydration, takes off lbs real fast. 😳

28 posted on 01/17/2015 12:49:55 PM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: Graybeard58

I’m very sorry to hear that.

I try to avoid Doctors.

Most Doctors are just “Practicing” medicine.


29 posted on 01/17/2015 12:50:13 PM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

including $1,283,000 to provide sexual assault training to the Air Force.

perhaps they could teach the authoir of the article how to write in english...?


30 posted on 01/17/2015 12:50:56 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Actually, we can show someone health stats and talk about those, such as rising cholesterol blood levels and heart attacks, among other health issues. Or how about ask about how it feels. Because I gained and lost a little bit of weight when I was about 28 years old. It wasn’t pleasant, and I did got notified about the weight gain by my doctor, who also asked me about my fitness, which when I answered honestly. TBH, I am not one of those miracle weight loss stories, nor am I still, weighing in at about 210 lbs and 6’1”, but life does feel better, an less depressing, with excercise, an I am glad my doctor asked those questions that he did.


31 posted on 01/17/2015 1:05:53 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: lee martell

Sadly enough, most of that should have been natural common sense.


32 posted on 01/17/2015 1:07:25 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: fatnotlazy

Yeah, I haven’t been a miracle story either, walking around does help lower my stress level, and without the excessive expectation for results, being outside and seeing light, or just a little walk, is good, just helps me not feel gloomy. I figured out a while that I wasn’t going to get back to the slim teenage boy that I was, but with that aside, my walks in the park are fine, an enjoyable.


33 posted on 01/17/2015 1:12:04 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Think about how much they spend to FEED fat kids.


34 posted on 01/17/2015 1:17:57 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’d teach them to say, “Kid, go play outside.” for a mere $49,988. Or better yet, “Parent, quit hovering and let kid play outside.”


35 posted on 01/17/2015 1:29:45 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Doctors” in the Minneapolis St Paul area already talk to grown adults like they are eight year olds.


36 posted on 01/17/2015 1:35:29 PM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: bgill

But if you let your kid play outside, CPS will come knocking on your door with a SWAT backup.


37 posted on 01/17/2015 1:36:50 PM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Fred Hayek

government waste never seems to end


38 posted on 01/17/2015 1:38:36 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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39 posted on 01/17/2015 1:52:21 PM PST by digger48
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“including $1,283,000 to provide sexual assault training to the Air Force.”

So I have to join the air force to learn how to sexually assault someone?


40 posted on 01/17/2015 1:56:16 PM PST by lowbridge
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