Dr. B and fatty Mcfat fat kids

Dr B says:::::::::::::>
A proposed boycott of Girl Scout cookies (because they're supposedly jumping down Americans' throats and killing them with obesity) -- nutty (the boycott idea, not the cookies). But, charges of child abuse against a parent who lets a child become morbidly obese -- not nutty, right-on in my opinion. In addition to all of the long-term physical consequences (Diabetes, heart disease, etc.), there are profound short- and long-term negative psychological and emotional consequences of childhood obesity. If adults want to blow themselves up with food to the point of explosion, I'm not really worried about it -- don't want to pay for it, but not worried about it. But kids are not competent to make that decision for themselves and should not be allowed to do so. Just as we don't allow parents to harm children by under-feeding them, we shouldn't allow parents to harm children by over-feeding them. Don't get me wrong here -- I don't want the government second-guessing the nutritional decisions made by every parent in the U.S.A. or some kind of government-sanctioned "weigh ins" of every kid in the U.S.A. -- but I would like to see mandated reporting (by teachers, school nurses, healthcare providers, etc.) to child protective services when a child is morbidly, grossly obese. One last thing, and this applies to both childhood and adult obesity -- I don't buy the "medical condition" excuse. We all took high school chemistry, and we learned that matter never gets created or destroyed; it just changes form. That means there's no way for 100 lbs. of fat to end up as part of a person's body unless 100 lbs. of food entered that body first. So, even if a person has a "medical condition" that prevents the person from knowing when he or she has had enough to eat, weight gain still can be controlled through the regulation of food intake and physical activity (and if a physician wants to add medication to that mix, I'm fine with it). Nobody has to be fat, especially not kids.

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