[mamelukesabre]

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?"

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The heart disease may not be a trend, but the childhood obesity certainly is. When I was a kid, there was only one fat kid in a class, if that many. Now days, all you got to do is look around, and it seems that half the class must be "the fat kid".

[Jeff Chandler]

See post # 9.

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[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.