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To my knowledge eating too much has a greater role in causeing overweight-ness than lack of exercise. I could be wrong...
So 10 year old kids all have part time jobs with which to fund their junk food obesession? The blame rests with the parents.gerhard said:why?
advertising assumes that the people watching are rational beings, capable of making decisions for themselves. whereas the court system, and psychologists would deny that children are able to do this.
Agree with everything except the car dragging bit but only because it would lead to injury and cost money.katie_tully said:What a crock. They're fat because they won't get off their god damn fat arses and do some exercise.
Back in my day (before Nintendo and what have you became totally accessable and fashionable), we loved nothing more than hours of romping around outside.
Sure, we ate the occasional packet of chips, or binged for hours on lollies. But we'd then be back outside, playing ninja turtles and such.
Now I see kids at 7:30, walking to school with A COKE IN THEIR FAT LITTLE MITTEN. Dear lord, where are the parents? The parents are probably morbidly obese monkeys too, eating their way to becoming the poster family for coronary heart disease.
Make the fuckers get up and do 2 hours of exercise. Ban the nintendo. Play station. X Box. Computer. Whatever. Tie rope to their waist, and drag them along with a car if you have to.
You're kidding, right?iamsickofyear12 said:The solution to this problem is simple. Invent something healthy that doesn't taste like shit.
For the same reason the government is concerned about stuff like dental hygiene. If for no other reason than the fact that a generation of fatties will cost Australia hundreds of millions of dollars in health spending. Schools should STFU about anorexia. I've heard hours of lectures at school on eating disorders but virtually nothing on fitness, weight loss, basal metabolic rate etc. Anorexia is a very small problem (in terms of numbers) compared to obesity but anorexia is a trendy, PC disease.sam04u said:I don't see the point any of you are trying to make. Why should childhood obesity concern anyone? It's not something any of us have any control over and sometimes it's not the parents fault. It's liek me... I'm lazy and I like eating and therefore I'm overweight. I know the risks of being overweight so why should It matter? It's not like smoking which effects people around you. It doesn't cause cancers or other things alike. (I don't overconsume sugars so I wont get diabetes and therefore the only risks are things like clogged arteries, I take blood tests though so that isn't an issue either. ) I exercise and such too so that eliminates some of the other problems. (Genetic engineering has answers though... obesity isn't something which will be an issue to man for real long...)
I like the way you think, the report card especially, with like a graph compared to the nations average, and a redl line in the graph to show where a healthy weight is. Easiest way to do it would be off a BMI, but according to that i am at a healthy weight. The thing is i dont look fat, but i also have no muscle so my fat % must be huge.loquasagacious said:Solutions (to work in combination):
-Up PE to an hour a day every week at school.
-Teach kids about dieting.
-Stop pushing positive body image at school currently we tell kids, its OK to be fat. We should tell them its OK to be ugly its NOT ok to be fat.
-Have school based intervention programmes for fat kids (and their parents).
-Add a health index to school reports eg a section that says "your kid is unhealthily fat" "your kid places here in relation to national and class averages"
-charge fat people more (two seats on planes, in cinemas, etc)
-national service
sam04u said:I don't see the point any of you are trying to make. Why should childhood obesity concern anyone? It's not something any of us have any control over and sometimes it's not the parents fault. It's liek me... I'm lazy and I like eating and therefore I'm overweight. I know the risks of being overweight so why should It matter? It's not like smoking which effects people around you. It doesn't cause cancers or other things alike. (I don't overconsume sugars so I wont get diabetes and therefore the only risks are things like clogged arteries, I take blood tests though so that isn't an issue either. ) I exercise and such too so that eliminates some of the other problems. (Genetic engineering has answers though... obesity isn't something which will be an issue to man for real long...)
They give detailed physical fitness reports (including weight) in singapore. Would never happen here would be too damaging to people's precious self esteem.Serius said:I like the way you think, the report card especially, with like a graph compared to the nations average, and a redl line in the graph to show where a healthy weight is. Easiest way to do it would be off a BMI, but according to that i am at a healthy weight. The thing is i dont look fat, but i also have no muscle so my fat % must be huge.
I also think annorexia is bunk... its almost as over hyped as AIDS!
sam04u said:Lol FUCK airlines they should make seats bigger! Also, as I said obesity isn't a long term problem... It's been around for longer then religion it's not like annorexia which is a 'future' problem... (obesity can be fixed annorexia can't)
sam04u said:Lol FUCK airlines they should make seats bigger! Also, as I said obesity isn't a long term problem... It's been around for longer then religion it's not like annorexia which is a 'future' problem... (obesity can be fixed annorexia can't)
True. But old age is inevitable, not a preventable lifestyle disease, and in any case, obesity leads to worsening of our aging problem as we have our people dropping dead at 45 of heart attacks; people who would otherwise be working hard, paying their taxes and keeping the oldies sheltered and fed.transcendent said:Old people are costing us more then fat people in my opinion.