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]]> By: Ariah Fine http://www.about-face.org/popularity-happiness/#comment-258 Ariah Fine Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:15:55 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/archives/154#comment-258 yikes! Things get harsh quick around here. I really liked the post. I read an article about the study too and thought some of the same questions you raised. Geez do we ever live in a tough society for kids. yikes! Things get harsh quick around here.

I really liked the post. I read an article about the study too and thought some of the same questions you raised.

Geez do we ever live in a tough society for kids.

]]> By: Jana http://www.about-face.org/popularity-happiness/#comment-257 Jana Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:35:20 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/archives/154#comment-257 Jacki, it´s sad you think the only alternative to obesity is anorexia. Obesity often starts at school-age because of irresponsible parents and lousy school lunch diet. Lack of sports does the rest. The increase in anorexia cases is caused by the general obesity epidemic -people are desperate to lose weight and do so in a destructive way. It is child abuse to allow your kid to become obese. To give a polemic example: Marlene Corrigan, who fattened her own daughter to death. Bullies: children and teens are very cruel and pick on everyone showing a weakness. You are right: if "plus-sized" children lived in a world without that, they wouldn´t suffer from them, as it is with all things on this world. Jacki, it´s sad you think the only alternative to obesity is anorexia.
Obesity often starts at school-age because of irresponsible parents and lousy school lunch diet. Lack of sports does the rest.
The increase in anorexia cases is caused by the general obesity epidemic -people are desperate to lose weight and do so in a destructive way. It is child abuse to allow your kid to become obese. To give a polemic example: Marlene Corrigan, who fattened her own daughter to death.

Bullies: children and teens are very cruel and pick on everyone showing a weakness. You are right: if “plus-sized” children lived in a world without that, they wouldn´t suffer from them, as it is with all things on this world.

]]> By: Jackie http://www.about-face.org/popularity-happiness/#comment-256 Jackie Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:31:32 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/archives/154#comment-256 Oh one more thing Jana, it is because everyone is so mean that plus size children have little self-esteem. If they lived in a society that didn't place hate on someone based on body size, they wouldn't be dealing with that. Bullies deserve to be punished. They're not bullying plus-sized children out of a concern for their health. If the emotional abuse leads to them being thin though, who cares right? Oh one more thing Jana, it is because everyone is so mean that plus size children have little self-esteem. If they lived in a society that didn’t place hate on someone based on body size, they wouldn’t be dealing with that.

Bullies deserve to be punished. They’re not bullying plus-sized children out of a concern for their health. If the emotional abuse leads to them being thin though, who cares right?

]]> By: Jackie http://www.about-face.org/popularity-happiness/#comment-255 Jackie Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:28:49 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/archives/154#comment-255 Jana, your right. Let's put all the school kids on a starvation diet. I'm being sarcastic. That would be the only way to see that all the children in school are thin. Do you think starving children leads to health? Do you realize that right now, hospitals are getting 7 year olds reffered to them with a diagnoses of Anorexia? Or is Anorexia your idea of healthy? Jana, your right. Let’s put all the school kids on a starvation diet. I’m being sarcastic. That would be the only way to see that all the children in school are thin. Do you think starving children leads to health? Do you realize that right now, hospitals are getting 7 year olds reffered to them with a diagnoses of Anorexia? Or is Anorexia your idea of healthy?

]]> By: Jana http://www.about-face.org/popularity-happiness/#comment-254 Jana Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:28:41 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/archives/154#comment-254 -->What does it matter if we’re overweight, happy, and healthy? Now it's getting irresponsible here. School kids should not at all be overweight. Period. Being overweight is about the worst for a child's health, and for their self-esteem as well, and not just because everybody is so mean. I can remember when I was at school, we had maybe one boy and one girl a bit overweight. This "fat kid" was not in any way comparable to the sick children we encounter nowadays as normal in our schools. Exercising kids which get a healthy diet are in the minority by now. The answer cannot be to just improve their self-esteem and everything is ok. –>What does it matter if we’re overweight, happy, and healthy?
Now it’s getting irresponsible here.
School kids should not at all be overweight. Period.
Being overweight is about the worst for a child’s health, and for their self-esteem as well, and not just because everybody is so mean.
I can remember when I was at school, we had maybe one boy and one girl a bit overweight. This “fat kid” was not in any way comparable to the sick children we encounter nowadays as normal in our schools. Exercising kids which get a healthy diet are in the minority by now.
The answer cannot be to just improve their self-esteem and everything is ok.

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