Vith Video: My Kid Ain’t Fat!
When I was a kid, I ate primarily well-balanced, home-cooked meals, including bagged lunches.
When chicks started working, chicks stopped cooking.
Fast food and restaurarnts didn’t get less healthy, but with the death of the home-cooked meal, we did.
Are the evil coroporations really to blame for this obesity epidemic, or the fact that women feel it’s more important to become the human ATM machines that men are, instead of better raising their children ( by cooking, for one thing ) and more hands on caring for the household. Fast food and fatty restaurants are primarily patronized by families whos moms want to spend more time doing a man’s job of earning money than caring for the family. We ain’t all poorer, so that ain’t why we’re flooding to Mickey D’s.
Or maybe it’s just a coincidence that we have a weight epidemic, wholly unrelated to the death of the home-cooked meal. Maybe we can blame the evil coporations over or own changes in society and a new female priority of the sawbuck, ego and Gucci over family. And maybe it’s the same coincidence that has caused an epidemic of kids, now nowever, raised by “Man is God” secular progressves whose “sophictacted intellelctual superiority has produced a generation of weak, emotinally dead, prescriptin drug-addeled basket cases.
DETROIT (AP) - A startling number of parents may be in denial about their youngsters’ weight.
A survey found that many Americans whose children are obese do not see them that way.
That is worrisome because obese children run the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol problems and other ailments more commonly found in adults. And overweight children are likely to grow up to be overweight adults.
“It suggests to me that parents of younger kids believe that their children will grow out of their obesity, or something will change at older ages,” said Dr. Matthew M. Davis, a University of Michigan professor of pediatrics and internal medicine who led the study, released earlier this month.
“When I see a child that is obese at these younger ages, I take that as a sign of ways nutrition can be improved, a child’s activity level can be improved.”
Among parents with an obese, or extremely overweight, child ages 6 to 11, 43 percent said their child was “about the right weight,” 37 percent responded “slightly overweight,” and 13 percent said “very overweight.” Others said “slightly underweight.”
For those with an obese child ages 12 to 17, the survey found more awareness that weight was a problem. Fifty-six percent said their child was “slightly overweight,” 31 percent responded “very overweight,” 11 percent said “about the right weight” and others said “slightly underweight.”
Dr. Goutham Rao, clinical director of the Weight Management and Wellness Center at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, said obesity in children isn’t as easy to identify as in adults. “Plus, because of the social stigma, it’s not something that parents are willing to admit to readily,” Rao said.
The survey of 2,060 adults, conducted over the summer by Internet research firm Knowledge Networks, collected height and weight measurements on the children from their parents, then used that to calculate body mass index.
When a child’s BMI was higher than the 95th percentile for children who are the same age and gender, the child was considered obese.
Based on what the parents reported, 15 percent of the children ages 6 to 11, and 10 percent of the children ages 12 to 17, were obese.
The Michigan researchers said that, too, suggests parents underestimate their children’s weight. National estimates indicate about 17 percent of U.S. children are obese under the standard used by the researchers.
Dr. Reginald Washington, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and part of the AAP’s committee on childhood obesity, noted that in about half of cases where a child is obese, one or both parents are overweight, too—and parents can take a pediatrician’s concerns as a personal affront.
Experts said doctors need to help parents better understand the health risks of childhood obesity.
“Obesity isn’t just something that affects the clothes that you buy or how you are perceived by your friends and your schoolmates,” Davis said. “It is something that can have health effects, not only in adulthood but in childhood.”
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The carnie music in the background and that chick’s laughter seemed rather fitting.
December 24th, 2007 at 7:16 pmPat -
I am assuming, by your commentary preceding the article, that you hold “stay-at-home moms” in high regard these days … As someone who gave up a growing and promising career to focus on actually guiding and raising the members of the next generation I decided to bring into the world, I thank you for your gracious consideration and recognition of the duty and commitment it takes to produce and raise healthy, productive, and responsible human beings in society.
Maggie
December 25th, 2007 at 9:02 am“Chicks stopped working - chicks stopped cooking.”
Shdn’t this be, “Chicks STARTED working”? Otherwise it doesn’t make sense in the context of the essay.
My non-career mom used to make us wholesome, balanced brown-bag meals for school, too! And none of us 4 were fat.
December 25th, 2007 at 12:54 pmI had the misfortune of growing up in a single-parent household - my father died when I was 5. My mother had to play the role of provider and nurturer.
She did something right, I made it this far with a head on my shoulders.
To you stay-at-home mothers out there: Thanks for taking the time to actually raise your kids. I hope to find someone like you to give my children what I never had - a whole family.
December 26th, 2007 at 12:43 amWith that said (going into my own mind, I forgot the topic was about today’s kids being overweight and obese
), another reason today’s kids might be overweight is because they’re lazy. You don’t see very many kids outside nowadays - they prefer to sit around on computers and video games all day. Physical education is de-emphasized in schools. Food portions from fast-food places are much more than they used to be (seriously, triple cheeseburgers! Come on, now).
I have more to say, but I don’t know quite how to put it into words. I think you all know what I’m getting at, though.
December 26th, 2007 at 12:52 amEh! I’m not fat, I’m big boned!
Seriously, as a former fatbody, diet tray, or “fat fucking hippopotamus” as my Drill Instructor called me, I had to chime in here.
While I agree with Pat that mothers watching (or chosing) what their kids eat is a good thing, I had a stay at home Mom, and we were both fat. (Now, we’re both skinny.) It’s complicated–you are born with a certain metabolic rate, and while you can change it, some people couldn’t make themselves fat if they tried. And some people try really hard and can’t get skinny.
My world changed when I lost weight. People look at you and treat you entirely differently. And I used to think that people just hated the visuals of fat people, or sitting next to them on an airplane (Christ, I hate that) but it’s something else–it’s a measure of how much you care about yourself. Weight loss is complicated. But…
If you do ANYTHING physically for an hour a day, drink water, get your fiber, eat small meals four or five times a day, don’t eat before bedtime… yeah. It’s not THAT hard.
I will tell you this–psycologically, food is a drug just like crack. And when I feel bad/stressed/pissed/whatever, the chips and cookies call me, and say, “eat me, you’ll feel better.” And it does. So, I wouldn’t jump on the whole anti-feminist wagon here, although I usually would.
My grandparents retirement home sent me about a year’s worth of candy. I’m giving it away.
Piece!
December 26th, 2007 at 1:20 amhe, your a reactionnaire, you can’t put back the women back in the kitchen, awaiting their “lovely” husband while they are gone out in “conventions” and have fun with scretaries or girls… the cooking isn’t only a woman activity, everyone should worry on what they put in their mouth ; I myself don’t cook, my hubby didn’t let me since I know him ; when he is out, I choose vegetable and cheeze prior to fat “macdo” sort of food, as far education is concerned, ; I don’t think that an hysterical, stressed and unhappy woman can make a good survey on kids ; that’s an individual concern, wether the women stay at home or work : dumb persons stay dumb wherever they are busy
December 26th, 2007 at 3:54 amHeh. Rumball47, yore brain musta had candy canes all over it when you finished typing. I assume you weren’t offering us a “Piece” of your loot when you did that?
Peace, man!
December 26th, 2007 at 11:02 pm