Finally, I have proof that we must be living in the dumbest country in the world. This is it, the debate about what term to use to describe children that are overweight. You can't call them obese because it will hurt their feeling. The 17 year old girl quoted in the story meant to say when your young, you are stupid, and I am still very very stupid.
I wonder why it really matters, if a kid is overweight you shouldn't hurt their feelings by telling them that, but if they are underweight because their role models are really skinny, is anyone afraid of hurting their feeling by saying you are underweight? If it were up to me, I'd say: You weight X pounds, for your age and your height, your ideal healthy weight should be Y pounds. Unless your are even dumber than you look, you know what the difference is, call it whatever you want, obese, overweight, or skinny-ish challenged person or whatever you want, does it really make a difference?
As I was reading the article I couldn't help but to think about why kids should not be educated about the dangers of smoking tobacco. Some of those kids could already be smokers, or have family members that smoke. Talk of cancer and pictures of black lungs would probably scare those kids, or make them sad and therefore we should not do it. Nothing is worse than hurting someone's feelings, even if it means that they might die because of it.
It also makes me think of the wonderfull idea to not educate children about birth control and safe sex.
We don't deserve to be here anymore I don't think. Oh well, North Korea will fix that soon enough.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060703/ap_on_he_me/diet_obese_or_not
Wow, I just realized how perfect this fits based on today's date!
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