I’m sooooo, frukkin’ cynical, but this smells of the ‘Fat Nazis’...particularly at the New York Slimes. I would LOVE to ask them if they’d be willing to go after ‘Lil’ Kim’ of North Korea. He seems to be doing quite well in the ‘fatty-fatso’ department IMHO. But, I guess, Commie dictators don’t count.....as long as the populace is skinny and starving, amirite?
You are right to be leery of the food Nazis, but there is a real problem out there as well. Dangerous streets and the huge virtual world.
So many kids are sedentary lumps compared to what we enjoyed in our day. Hazardous, even predatory streets incline us to keep them inside. The menu of computer and other electronic past times tends to turn them into couch potatoes.
It requires an effort to keep them active and fit, when in the past it required effort to get them back inside the house. (Heh. Remembering several ‘chastisements’ I got for returning after sunset . . .)