[nckerr]

I was at the local community pool and saw that well over half of the kids were overweight by looks and at least a quarter were morbidly obese. And they had skinny parents some of them! If you are a parent and your kid is overweight, you should be ashamed. You are the same parents that would slap your kids silly for smoking but will load the kid full of unhealthy food.

Do parents not remember the trauma caused to fat kids in school? Not to mention the huge health problems fat kids have both psychological and physical? Or that the US Military is finding a huge shortage of healthy kids to volunteer for service. Wake up America!

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Ah, but rather than make the fat kids get exercise, the teachers celebrate fatso's digirthity.

[in hoc signo vinces]

"Put down the bucket of chicken!"

[Stepan12]

I eat healthy; I just eat too much. And that is not healthy!

[ConservativeMind]

Maybe they just eat too much healthy food.

[in hoc signo vinces]

This is going to end up being a bash "fatty" thread...

I know, I am not helping...

[JennysCool]

"I gotta be meeeeeeeee!"

[IrishMike]

Most obeese people claim to eat healthy....
I'm one !!
How much did the Feds pay for that dumb a$s survey.

[mountainlyons]

There is a health tape out there called "Dead Doctors" that claims the USDA Food Pyramid that was designed by four lawyers is all wrong and that it fills the rules for fattening livestock for the market.

[Michael.SF.]

Sure, I eat healthy. it's the drinking that doesn't help.

[Jacquerie]

We are fast becoming a nation of porkers.

In WWII, malnourished recruits reflected the hard times of the Depression. Today . . .

[ECM]

"Do parents not remember the trauma caused to fat kids in school?"

At the rate we're going they'll start picking on the normal kids soon for being 'underweight' once they're the minority.

[wyattearp]

How often do you eat all of the food you are served at restaurants? About 41 percent of obese people said they always did, while 31 percent of normal weight people always did.

Maybe, but the "normal people" were ordering the daily special: The obese people were ordering "all you can eat".

[Proud_USA_Republican]

See it all the time:

"I'll take a double quarterpounder with cheese, supersized fries, and a (Drum roll please).....................diet coke.

[MarineBrat]

[Ditter]

I haven't been to a pool lately but when I see overweight kids, they usually look like shorter versions of their parents. The entire family will be overweight.

[WV Mountain Mama]

My FIL thinks he eats healthy, and he is over 300 pounds. He does his "version" of South Beach Diet. He doesn't eat carbs at the Chinese Buffet. He only eats 6 plates of meat/veggie dishes and thinks the sauces are fine, and did I mention he eats 6 plates?! And, he stopped drinking beer, he and his buddy (also very obese and on the diet) drink 3 bottles of wine a night, instead of the unhealthy beer they used to drink. I also had to explain to them that empty calories don't mean they can have as much as they want. It took about 10 minutes and 2 other people to help convince them.

The epidemic of fat children is alarming...

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Apparently some count walking really fast from the couch to the fridge as 'vigorous excercise'.

[T Minus Four]

"There is, perhaps, some denial going on. Or there is a lack of understanding of what does it mean to be eating healthy, and what is vigorous exercise,"

Ya think?

[muleskinner]

At my usual campground in Calif., half the kids looked overweight and most of the women were haystacks.

[prion]

Yeah, either that, or fat people are telling the truth and the diet nutritionists tell us is healthy, is not. What is it, twelve servings of cereals they used to push?