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- inactive, on 12/28/2008, -1/+58"The kindness, it burns!"
- inactive, on 12/29/2008, -3/+44Soda = fat kids.
- inactive, on 12/29/2008, -0/+40I hardly see what's kind about feeding your children gigantic portions of bad food to the point where they are 50, 70, 100 lbs over weight and can barely move and are horribly ostersized and rejected at school by their peers and aren't even able to do normal childhood things such as playing sports,etc,. To the point where people stare because they look deformed with folds of fat hanging off of them and cheeks so fat they have squinty eyes and their life is considerably shorter and more miserable. Tell me how that's kind? I once saw one of these kids at a grocery store, he was about 10 years old and so obese he had to use one of the electronic chairs to go around the store in. His face was so fat, he looked really deformed. I felt sorry for him and then I saw his mother, who was about 400 lbs and barely standing without breathing heavy.....it was ***** disgusting, I mean you can ruin your own health and life, but for godsake, don't bring your children down with you.
- inactive, on 12/29/2008, -1/+32Parents and ignorance? Noooooooooooooooooooo....
(Sorry, my wife is a teacher and from the stories she tells me we have a class of ultra-moron parents raising kids these days.) - Stuffburger, on 12/29/2008, -2/+32Problem with that is healthy food is far more expensive per calorie than unhealthy food- Instead of buying less fresh veggies and lean meat and whatever it's gonna be McDonalds and candy bars.
- sladde, on 12/28/2008, -8/+36I was expecting an article or video from "The Onion"
- chabs39, on 12/29/2008, -0/+21I have lost 70 pounds since I left for college a few years ago. I think the blame is mostly on the parents for enabling it but the kid is still partially to blame for not saying no. My mom seemed to take it personally when I didnt want to eat everything she gave me and would get upset so I felt it was expected to eat everything. I just eat when I'm hungry now and that seems to work. Losing weight isn't some big secret, just stop ***** eating so much.
- quez, on 12/29/2008, -1/+21He's not fat, but what he's not telling you is that he no longer has teeth.
- Nizumzen, on 12/29/2008, -1/+20We already do have a smoking tax and drinking tax. Smokers contribute £11 billion to the NHS each year in taxes which more than pays for the costs they incur. Drinkers could do with paying more duty if I am honest but we most certainly should start charging a fat tax.
- WorldLeader, on 12/29/2008, -11/+29Two words: Fat Tax.
The more overweight you are, the more you pay to the government to keep you alive. - Parastie, on 12/29/2008, -1/+17Actually, the Netherlands did a study on this to see if it was feesable to inplament a fat tax. It was determined the healthy people, who tend to live into very old age, require much more money in healthcare in their waning years. It costs nearly twice as long to take care of an elderly person for 10-20 years when they're incapable of taking care of themselves then it does to try to save a fat person from dying of a heart attack.
So technically, the healthy should have to pay the tax. - inactive, on 12/29/2008, -2/+17Good luck with the kidney stones. Lay off the soda dude.
- panacean, on 12/29/2008, -1/+14Yeah, since fat people are glorified as much as slutty women.
- inactive, on 12/29/2008, -0/+12Actually, my teeth are fine... I am not sure about anything internally, but I seem really healthy...
- LarsChr, on 12/29/2008, -4/+15I'm starting to think a global recession might be a good thing, if it forces people to cut down on their food budgets at least.
- yoshman, on 12/29/2008, -0/+11Unfortunately bad food is the cheapest food. So it will probably make it worse.
- chrisaug18, on 12/29/2008, -0/+10Yes, and there is an over the speed limit tax, its called a speeding ticket.
- neuromachine, on 12/29/2008, -0/+9Unfortunately, it doesn't burn calories.
- JamesMorris, on 12/29/2008, -5/+14Fat people disgust me.
- glendower, on 12/29/2008, -1/+10the goggles, they do nothing!
- TheBadWolf, on 12/29/2008, -1/+10Because if there's anything this world needs, it's more hunger.
- chrisaug18, on 12/29/2008, -0/+9omg logic...get him!
- enantiodromia, on 12/29/2008, -2/+10awww how cute. you said something on the inernets.
- Sp0rAdiC, on 12/29/2008, -1/+9Only true if you're too lazy to prepare your own food.
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/09/24/is-the-v ... - ragez, on 12/29/2008, -0/+8this is shameful, there's nothing worse you can do as a parent than neglect your child's health. its lazy parenting to give in every time they ask for a donut or cookie.
- kinseyincanada, on 12/29/2008, -0/+7actually the name brand sweetened iced tea (brisk etc...) has the same amount if not more sugar than Soda, the same goes for those canned jucies like tropicanna twisters and the like.
- linuxpenguin, on 12/29/2008, -1/+8I don't know, Oprah's pretty popular. . . :)
- martin308, on 12/29/2008, -0/+7body fat %??
- MewTwo, on 12/29/2008, -0/+7Look at the ratio between actual fat people and fat people on tv lately?
- enantiodromia, on 12/29/2008, -1/+8wtf is wrong with you. it's called water, or at the very least, iced tea.
- linuxpenguin, on 12/29/2008, -0/+7As much as people like to talk about recession, most of the people I've seen cutting back to any real degree are businesses, not people.
And honestly, I think food will be one of the last things to go. I can think of a lot of other things people would do without first (or start doing) - carpooling to save gas, not buying new cellphones every year, cutting computer time. . . some people may do the "if it's brown flush it down, if it's yellow let it mellow" thing. . . - LupeFiasco, on 12/29/2008, -1/+8Wow, what a failure of a comment.
- MacEnvy, on 12/29/2008, -0/+6@Sp0rAdiC
If you read all the way through, you find out that the homemade burger was actually almost twice as expensive, but he ignores that because it was "tastier and healthier". Well no *****, it was homemade. But that doesn't cancel out that it was still more expensive, as the author somehow indicates.
He started out trying to prove something he already felt to be true, rather than observing the evidence and then coming to a conclusion. Poor experimental methodology. - opticwind, on 12/29/2008, -1/+7The rebuttal to that is, the parents ARE hampering their kids.
- LarsChr, on 12/29/2008, -0/+6That is both true and a very valid point, but for some reason I think even in very healthy financial periods a lot of people aren't paying much attention to healthy food.
But hey, a little bit of physical activity would go a long way too. What kind of economic turn do we need to inspire parents to encourage their kids to get off the couch? - computershack, on 12/29/2008, -0/+6World War 2 is partly to blame. As a kid, my parents told me I had to clean the plate before I could leave the table. This is because that's how they were brought up, mostly due to living under strict rationing during WW2. Being brought up under that doctrine doesn't lead to healthy eating as you tend not to stop when you're full and it kind of sets a precedent which is hard to break.
chabs39's comments above confirm this.
The biggest difference between my childhood and my childrens is that we used to go out and play a lot but now, thanks to the media portraying a country with a paedo or a knife wielding teen on every corner, parents keep their kids in more. We let our kids go out and do what we used to so whilst we're seen as irresponsible parents in the eyes of the meeja, at least our kids aren't fat. - DigitalisAkujin, on 12/29/2008, -0/+6I don't mind the "awareness" campaign but please no nanny state. >.>
- koweja, on 12/29/2008, -1/+7Two more words: Nanny State. Promoting good health is one things, forcing it on people is another matter.
- matthekc, on 12/29/2008, -0/+5Hey kids let's get some McDonald's... Who wants a litter of cola? super-size fries? a big slab o grease?
- opticwind, on 12/29/2008, -1/+6I see your point, clearly accountability comes into play somewhere. But in the US society, people under the age of either 16 or 18 are clearly held to a different set of standards. Parents are considered responsible for the actions of their children not because the parents should be there, watching, all the time.
No, we have this system because what children do is often related to their upbringing. It's not perfect. But even so, a parent is always in charge of what gets bought at the grocery store. If a kid tosses in some soda, the parents have the right (and to a bit extreme side) responsibility to say "No, not this time. You've had too much." - stafa786, on 12/29/2008, -2/+7I think that the measure is a little extreme, but something has to be done. Parents need to know that just because food makes their children happy, that isn't necessarily the best thing for their children. Drugs can make children happy too, but does that mean parents should distribute heroin to their kids? When there is a point that you can see because of all the food you child has eaten that it is physically and emotionally unhealthy, then a parent is responsible to try to help that child.
- TheUngod, on 12/29/2008, -0/+5I think laziness causes more fat kids than soda. Drink all the soda you want as long as you exercise it off.
- opticwind, on 12/29/2008, -0/+5This is in Britain.
- linuxpenguin, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4I'd say soda rots your teeth and gives you kidney stones more than actually makes you gain weight. Well I suppose it depends on how much you drink though - if that's basically all you drink then maybe.
- inactive, on 12/29/2008, -5/+9I have drank about three liters of soda everyday for over fifteen years and rarely leave a computer. I know that it makes some people fat and I might be a rare exception, but I just had to stick up for my delicious nectar of life...
:Takes a sip of the last few drops in the second two litter of the day, while thinking about building a food pyramid out of bacon: - TheOneTrueGod, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4[lexluthorinsupermanreturns]WRONG![/lexluthorinsupermanreturns]
Everybody wants to see slim people instead of fat people. If you show people what they wanna see on TV, they're gonna watch more. Sitting in front of the TV and being "active" by eating would be one of the major causes of obesity. I am talking out of my ass here, but I might be right.
That said: I wanna see *slim* people on TV as well as on the street. Also, world peace. Also, no religion. Also, cold fusion. - DirtySanch, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4Not going to digg you down but I will say, "Eeeeeewwwwwwwe".
- avidadollars, on 12/29/2008, -2/+6A few points:
"Parents believe it is too unsafe to play outside" - yes, I had to prepare a research paper once about how the society should deal with sexual predators. The figures and the evidence of sexual crimes against children are astounding. Add to this all the recent cases of kids and teenagers being killed in the streets in the middle of the day which killings are reported across the national media. It seems that, yes, parents are right to believe that it is too unsafe to play outside.
“Mums lack the confidence to take part in physical activity with their children.” – Is the Government aware that many of those ‘mums’ are practically children themselves? For the long 4.5 years I used to live in a sleeping district in North Manchester, and it was staggering to see teenage girls either pregnant or pushing prams. Not only they are losing on very many opportunities in life, be that education or work, they are hardly in capacity to bring up their children in an informed way because, as young parents, they are hardly informed themselves. If they are ‘killing’ their kids, it is with ignorance, not kindness.
“We're really concerned that parents are using sweets, chocolates and fizzy drinks to reward their children... Food has become an expression of love in 'at risk' families. Parents are prioritising filling up their kids over feeding them the right foods. Snacking has become a way of life.” – Yes, precisely like alcohol. Except that you don’t give alcohol to kids until they grow up. Moreover, young parents, especially if they themselves come from ‘at risk’ families, follow the example they’d taken from their parents.
Once again, instead of getting to and treating the cause of the problem, we’re trying to cure the outcome. - opticwind, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4Other than molesting them...I mean, I guess neglecting is bad.
- deadbaby, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4BUT WE HAVE HMOS! Everyone else can pay for my bad habits!
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