Posted on 01/04/2012 8:41:30 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A series of stark anti-obesity ads featuring miserable, overweight kids has sparked controversy in Georgia.
The ads feature children talking about their weight issues in between harrowing messages such as, “Some diseases aren’t just for adults anymore,” and “Being fat takes the fun out of being a kid.”
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, which co-founded the Strong4Life ad campaign, intended for the ads to be grim, hoping the clips would help parents recognize the severity of the obesity epidemic in Georgia, where it is the second highest in the nation.
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Nanny State PING!
My brother lives by a hospital and he said he hardly ever sees fat people going and coming from the hospital , I think the fat people and health problems is just a scam
Obesity is not a “disease.” It’s from eating too much and moving around too little.
My concern is all the kids that are on drugs. It was “the wiggly kid”...now it’s the autistic “quiet” kid.
Just another way to get more control.
How can we have an obesity problem when the federal government states emphatically that the USA’s poverty rate continues to grow??
I’d rather have an obesity problem as opposed to the hunger problem they had during the Great Depression. Those kids were bean poles.
The best anti-obesity ad would be the sight of Wide-Load Michelle Antoinette being physically escorted from the White Hut next year.
It sounds far better done than the anti-smoker ads that have kids spouting lies.
Thanks for the ping!
I can’t remember who the comedian was that said, “Only in America do we have poor fat people!”
Ah well - I was a fat kid, a fat teenager, and am still a fat adult. It’s my own fault, and I don’t blame the government or genetics or a nameless “disease”. Wish more would do the same!
Could be that some people are fat because of heath problems and not the other way around. I've seen people with back injuries put on 10 to 15 pounds in no time.
I disagree with you.
Most of us beanpoles ate what we had with gratitude, and most of us made it through the depression as pretty healthy kids.
I seriously wonder if you've seen the fatitude walking around in Georgia or Mississippi. Unbelievable.
In the 60’s, Johnson & the Democrats created Welfare & Food Stsmps for ‘the poor’.
In the 80’s & 90’s, schools—led by the Feds—started eliminating both mandatory & voluntary physical education classes—where a kid actually got some exercise.
In the 80’s & 90’s, electronic ‘games’ became the rage, instead of outdoor games like baseball, swimming, etc.
In the 2000’s, schools- with the push from the Feds have added breakfasts & even dinners & summer meals to the costs of running the schools. Just exactly HOW MANY MEALS are these kids getting each day???
How many ‘families’ are collecting food stamps for meals for kids who are getting those same meals AT THE SCHOOL—even in the summer?? In my area, they even get bussed back & forth to get those meals!!!!!!! Makes me livid.
Now, ‘juvenile obesity’ is the mantra.
Seems to me, the Feds have created these fat kids. The parents have been accomplices.
Well, this ought to encourage bullying.
To all these other fatteninizing trends, add the fact that we drug an obscene number of our kids to keep them subdued.
YES, I think those drugs are helpful to a limited number of really troubled kids -
but we are just abusing the vast majority to keep them quiet in their seats.
I completely agree with you.
I, too, have often wondered why the parents get the full WELFARE AND FOODSTAMP payment when the state is picking up the tab for most of the meals for their spawn- sometimes even on weekends when a knapsack full of food is sent home. I cringe when I hear that ‘some kids don’t even eat on the weekends so we send them food home’. W
hat the heck is happening with their food stamp and WIC money they faithfully like up and produce ID to get every month??!!
“Most of us beanpoles ate what we had with gratitude, and most of us made it through the depression as pretty healthy kids.”
I agree,I was one of them. Basic foods,but healthy. No sweets,no treats. I was in high school before I had my first potato chip.
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