Comments on: Study: Many Parents Blind To Kids' Obesity

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[allenjones3]

By the year 2050 more people will die of obesity than all cancers combined (NBC Nightly News. With rising health care costs how long before diet and exercise become like seat belts...mandatory???

[allenjones3]

By the year 2050 more people will die of obesity than all cancers combined (NBC Nightly News). With rising health care costs, how long before diet and exercise become mandatory like seat belts?

[allenjones3]

By the year 2050 more people will die of obesity than all cancers combined (NBC Nightly News). With health care cost rising, how long before diet and exercise become like seat belts...mandatory?

[hypnotoad72]

Corn syrup, salt, lard, oh my.

A combo of any number of factors, not limited to: Not enough exercise, eating too many bad foods, people not having the time to look at ingredients (it''s everywhere)...

And if everybody got thin tomorrow, would health care costs go down? Indeed, when gas prices go back down after those spikes, did the food prices go back down as well? (Nope)

[formrusmcsgt]

MSNBC reports on the same study with a more correct headline:

Study: Many parents of fat kids in denial

[formrusmcsgt]

We should probably find a way to deport obese people to some island somewhere so they can all sit around, eat and smoke. They should have to pay quadruple for their health insurance. They are absolutely worthless, in my humble opinion.
Posted by drivelphobe at 01:47 AM : Dec 26, 2007

While it is true that they literally disfugure themselves through overconsumption drivelphobe, to say that the obese are "worthless" is rather harsh.

Repugnant? Certainly.

[formrusmcsgt]

When you look at an old movie from the forties or fifties, you''''ll notice almost everyone was unbelievably thin.
Posted by veteran71 at 08:36 PM : Dec 25, 2007

Yeah. All the women had waists! Now they just throw an XXXXXL t-shirt on and waddle around in it.

[drivelphobe]

justsane.....

You must be a fatso, so I take your snide comment with a grain of salt. If you would direct some of your hostility towards a revised eating program, life would be much more meaningful for you. Sorry about your obesity, but I''m certain you really don''t care how fat you are. It''s so easy to maintain a healthy weight. It''s obvious that fat people are just lazy, self-indulgent pigs.

My comment was not drivel, but an honest opinion shared by every lean, healthy, alert, bright, individual who is tired of looking at obese people, smelling them and watching them stuff their faces while sipping on a diet cola in between a puff on their cigarettes.

As others mentioned, the burden on our healthcare system is probably equal to the burden from the illegal aliens. We should probably find a way to deport obese people to some island somewhere so they can all sit around, eat and smoke. They should have to pay quadruple for their health insurance. They are absolutely worthless, in my humble opinion.

[debster011]

You all are the biggest bunch of jerks. I have a skinny kid and an overweight kid. A lot of days the skinny one can out eat the heavy one. I do not let them eat a bunch of ***-either one. I have the heavy one playing basketball on a team and he is starting to lift weights as well. We own no play stations, gameboys, or Nintendos. And as for being a social outcast-maybe you self righteous losers can teach your children compassion-but from the looks of your posts-that doesn''t seem too likely.

[skinnyminny2]

re: obesity & insurance....
Sure, it costs, you are right. Not a whole lot anyone can do about it, especially when parents set bad examples and eat junk themselves. I have no control over those people.
I''d love to say education works, but it does not. The information is there. If people want to be fat and raise fat kids, let them. It just shows their stupidity (despite all the info out there--it''s certainly not ignorance) and lack of motivation.
And don''t anyone go and say healthy stuff costs more. Some things might, but there''s plenty to be found for a good price besides hot dogs and white bread.

[justsane-2009]

drivelphobe; nice to see you living up to the first part of your name...that post was pure, unadulterated drivel.

[formrusmcsgt]

As opposed to "Many Parents Blind To Kids'' Obesity", the headline should read "Many Parents In Denial Regarding Kid''s Obesity".

These parents aren''t blind. They can easily see that their kids are gluttons.

The parents simply prefer to live in denial about it.

[formrusmcsgt]

Anyway....not my kid, not my problem.

Posted by skinnyminny2 at 10:44 AM : Dec 25, 2007

You must not have to pay for health insurance, or you would understand that obesity costs all of us.....

[psk123-2009]

I find it difficult to believe that any parent would NOT know their child was over weight. How can that be possible?

The biggest problem with people today is the junk they are eating. Fast foods, pop, candy, ***. Not enough fresh fruits and veggitables. Fruit roll-ups are NOT fruit. Likewise Hi-C is not a good source of nutrition either. Both are nearly 100% sugar. Couple the bad diet with little activity and voila! Chub.

When I was growing up, junk like cake, candy, ice cream, and pop, etc., were a rarity reserved for birthdays and holidays only. We were all active and slim then and still are. Our kids are the same, active and slim with very little of the junk in their diets.

[skinnyminny2]

They needed a study to confirm this? All the rest of us needed to do is look around.
I grew up with little or no junk food, no sugar and lots vegetables grown in a garden I had to tend. I was a skinny, active kid and am now a skinny, active adult.
Anyway....not my kid, not my problem. If parents can''t see a correlation between food eaten, activity and their kid''s weight they might want to go back to grade school.

[drivelphobe]

Who cares if fat parents have fat kids? Of course they will! The more fat people there are, the easier it is for normal people to get ahead in every aspect of life.

No one wants to be around obese people. They can''t get ahead in business. Most of them smoke as well, making them even more repulsive. They are the scourge of society, wreaking havoc on our health care system and making everyone sick to their stomachs.

The children get beat up and teased at school and carry social scars the rest of their lives. They experience social ostracism from the beginning of their obesity, growing into offensive, disgusting adults.

The cure for obesity is simply having common sense. It''s strictly due to gluttony. Just stop stuffing the garbage in your mouth.

Obesity is a sure sign of stupidity and low IQ. I don''t have any feeling for these pigs at all. They make me sick and I can''t stand looking at them.

[otdky07]

It''s not surprising in today''s world where models and actors are getting criticized for being too thin. Well, it''s because everyone else is too fat. All "norms" in medicine are based upon a 5''10" 70 kg male. That''s 154 lbs. That was from the 60''s/70''s. How many males are 154 lbs in today''s world? Oh, it''s the one''s we''re calling too thin. Tell me, how was it normal a couple of decades ago, but now it''s suddenly unhealthy?

[formrusmcsgt]

These parents know their kids are fat. But if they go into denial, there''s no problem to correct. That''s how denial works.

They don''t have to be parents and make their kids eat nutritiously.

They don''t have to be parents and stop their kid''s gluttony.

They don''t have to be parents and make their kids put away the X-box and ride a bike.

In short, if they deny it''s happening, they don''t have to do anything at all.

Except maybe bury their kid when he''s in his 30''s......

[formrusmcsgt]

A startling number of parents may be in denial about their youngsters'' weight.

Duh.

Why else would they let their lard a$$ed kids live on junk?

[Krazcarl]

Comeon you know if your kid is fat you just don''t care or to lazy to deal with it.