Obese young America has its coronaries early

The Sunday Times (U.K.) ^ | 03/24/2002 | John Harlow

[Paleo Conservative]

I'm surprised that haven't fined The Sunday Times. =  I'm surprised they haven't fined The Sunday Times.

[sell_propaganda]

computer games...
profit from poor health

[Pistias]

More people are fat than 25 years ago, badass. More kids are too. What do you need for evidence?

[Pistias]

computer & games manufacturers...drug companies...fast food chains...television makers & marketers and the producers of the products they advertise & the shows on them...doctors, dentists, nurses, hospitals, HMO's, insurance companies, and of course, the legislators fiddling with the lot of it and dipping their hands in the pot...

[cidrasm]

So I guess what the author's saying is that in a country of 280 million people, it's possible to find a handful of freakish cases and insinuate that they indicate a "trend?"

Bingo. Just this last week USA Today ran on it's front page an article about how dangerous ambulances racing to/from the scene were. Their heartstring tugging example was an ambulance which ran over a pedestrian. They made it seem like an epidemic, except if you read the entire article, you found that only 33 incidents happened a year and the heartbreaker story was the result of an ambulance traveling at 35 MPH through an intersection in which it was hit by a van disabling it's steering and brakes.

Just more crap from the establishment media trying to MAKE a story.

[Jeff Chandler]

Hey, this one's a two-fer: SUV's! If it weren't for those evil SUV's, the little heifers would have to haul their own ample keysters to Taco Bell^®.

[SCalGal]

"Now days, all you got to do is look around, and it seems that half the class must be "the fat kid"."

I think it's a bigger problem than the article indicates. My daughter came home from high school saying that her friends were telling her that she was too skinny to have a baby. Now, at 5' and 105lbs, she's not skinny. But she's not fat, either.

Either they seem to be very overweight, or so emaciated that they need to be hospitalized. An awful lot of kids don't seem to have any sense of moderation.

[SCalGal]

Fatburger rules!

[Jeff Chandler]

her friends were telling her that she was too skinny to have a baby

Too young, too.

[Jeff Chandler]

Did I mention the skins-on, large-cut fries?.

[Jeff Chandler]

Swimming in ketchup and smothered in salt?.

[SCalGal]

That another whole issue.... as is the public school system in Los Angeles county- DON'T get me started!

[SCalGal]

Skinny fries, skins on.... deep fried in real grease... all the katsup you can eat...

They have fat fries, too- and that's what they are called- fat fries.

Best hamburgers ever! Juice drips down to your elbows!

[sell_propaganda]

I hear parents, guilt-ridden over not spending enough quality time with the kids, give the kids a few more perks like the latest computer game and dinner at MacDonald's.

[Jeff Chandler]

as is the public school system in Los Angeles county

I 'm a proud(?) graduate of La Mirada High. If it weren't for the eight years before that at St. Paul of the Cross I would have graduated not knowing a thing besides how to drink beer.

[Pistias]

An awful lot of kids don't seem to have any sense of moderation.

Moderation went out to lunch at Burger King--double whopper with cheese and bacon, fries, cheese sticks, and a large coke.

But seriously, moderation is in short supply--and moderation means moderate in regard to both ends (i.e., too skinny or too fat).

[Jeff Chandler]

Sounds good. Where can one find one of these "Fat Burgers"?.

[SCalGal]

Oh, boy..... I know exactly where that is. My parents are close to La Mirada- I went to Buena Park HS. It was awful then, and it's so much worse now.

[Jeff Chandler]

Extra punctuation oops. Too big a hurry.

[Jeff Chandler]

'tis why we homeschool our own munchkins.