Fat kids and school

[fett]

A lot of these fat kids come from low income or welfare households, the parent is generally fat herself. I just know that everytime I'm in line in the store and there is a big fat broad with a couple of big fat kids, pushing a shopping cart full of soda, candy,chips and little debbies and ding dongs, she'll be buying that garbage with food stamps, not a veggie to be seen anywhere, then its off to McDonalds for the meals of the day,

I did not want to go there.:ROTF:

[dg]

There are loads of reasons why kids (and a lot of adults) in the US are overweight, but I'm convinced that a big one is soft drinks. When I was growing up, a Coke or Pepsi was something that we occasionally had as a treat. Nowadays, there are people who drink nothing but soda. I see it every day. Keeping your blood sugar elevated 24/7 is a recipe for disaster. It causes obesity and I'm positive it's a big factor in the epidemic of Type II diabetes we're seeing. Now our fucking under-funded schools take money from the big soda companies, and get kickbacks based on how much vending business they do.

[Newc]

Public schools have to have an all-star sports program to get any kind of decent Federal funding these days. If they're not turning out NBA, MLB, or NFL hopefuls every year, there's no money from Uncle Samtom.

Never mind they might have the next Mozart, Rembrandt, or Linus Torvalds, American Schools have to produce sports "heroes" to get the green.

Fat kids are everywhere - rich, poor, in-between, male, female.

America is the only country that has fat poor people. Look at the poor in other countries - thin as Paris Hilton.


As for playing outside, that wa great when I was a kid because the lunatics and child molesters were mostly locked up safely in an institution. Thanks to the ACLU, they get to run loose.
Ergo, parents want their kids to stay indoors to keep them from being a feature on Nancy Grace.

However, thanks to the new legal system, those fat kids who don't get the sports scholarships for being overweight can now sue McD's for it.

[horns666]

Hey , I was great friends with a fat kid "Bags" in 12 th grade..because he was the baddest motherfucker in that school..I THINK I was second. So instead of two bull alpha males clashing ..which almost happened..we joined forces and talked of bass, pussy, pizza and smoked weed at lunch and laughed out loud in clas and gave teachers the finger!...We owned that fuggin' school..OWNED!

Hail to the fat kids..some of them are bad motherfuckers!!!

Truth!

BIll Z BUb

[horns666]

"Bags" is the only Mo Fo that is actually giving the finger in his prom picture printed in my yearbook!:ROTF:

what a crazy fucker he was!!

[ApeDosMil]

My nephew told me at his school they have 3 gym periods a day. (Wonders why...) :p

[dg]

I think it's 3 a week here now. We had it every day when I was in school. You know it's getting bad when there's a public service ad on TV trying to encourage kids to spend time outside. You couldn't get us to come inside when I was growing up. We played basketball, football, baseball, skateboarded, jumped bikes off of ramps, went hunting for turtles & snakes, etc. There are still a few kids like that now, but not many. I plan on doing everything I can to make sure my son is one of them.

[horns666]

This really built as brick shit house cement head that I threw down the fuggin stairs...That big goof was dumb enough to try "Bags" during class. I never seen a punch like that in my entire life, not as a cop, not on TV..OK the only thing that comes close is that movie "Friday"..when that dude asked Debo for his bike back..he went airborne..it was literally like that!

The teacher Mr Hunter didn't do a damn thing..you see the teachers, the principal liked Bags and I. We got a way with murder. The principal caught me fuggin' my girl in my '72 Lincoln right on school property during lunch..so he called me in his office..he's trying not to laugh, he offers me a smoke..I take one and we both fuggin' laugh..He asked me "Bill, can you at least go down the street and do that please".."I said sure..OK" and shook his hand..he was a cool dude. He was banging a 19 old that graduated the year before..man she was hot for him, she was his personal secretary..wow!

Bags was a big boy..he didn't play sports or work out..he went about 6'2" and was about 375 lbs of badass!!!

That was 1982..total different world back then.

[horns666]

I know the kind of "fat" kids you're talking about..the ones that have D cups, and can't do one push up if you put a big mac in front of his face. Like a ameba-like life form..yeah, that's a shame ..those parents should get a clue..but they're prolly amebas too..that will never change.

But there is really big boys out there who have or would kick your "in-shape" asses all day long!!

Thuth!

Bill Z Bub

[thetroy]

I think it has very little to do with food and everything to do with drinks and exercise. At the beginning of this year I stopped drinking soda and all other sugary drinks except orange juice and I went from 160 to 140 lbs. I'm convinced that drinking soda every day is one of the worst things people can do. That being said, I used to drink tons of it every day when I was like 10-13 and was never anything but skinny due to exercise.

I used to play a lot of video games (EverQuest anyone?) but I also played hockey, swam, ran, rode bikes, played soccer, and whatever other sport that I could find other people playing.

[horns666]

I think it has very little to do with food and everything to do with drinks and exercise. At the beginning of this year I stopped drinking soda and all other sugary drinks except orange juice and I went from 160 to 140 lbs. I'm convinced that drinking soda every day is one of the worst things people can do. That being said, I used to drink tons of it every day when I was like 10-13 and was never anything but skinny due to exercise.

I used to play a lot of video games (EverQuest anyone?) but I also played hockey, swam, ran, rode bikes, played soccer, and whatever other sport that I could find other people playing.

You're 100% absolutely right IMO Soda will put on about 20 lbs on me in about 6 weeks ..does it everytime..I love my coke, I drank 6 cans a day!!

As soon as I drop the pop all together I instantly loose 20 lbs, without changing anything esle in my diet..I still eat everything I always do, without worry or care..

But the pop will get ya..fast!

I brew 7 gallons of lightly sweatened Iced Tea..about a half cup of sugar per gallon..I'm even tappering that down to to about a quater cup od sugar per gallon..

All that Coke was roaching out my voice box where I couldn't talk and had full blown laryngitis..ask John he knows..I cut out all pop and got my voice back..still raspy sometimes, but much better!

Pop will rot your teeth fsater than anything too..I know I spit out teeth like a popcorn machine...I still have my front teeth so that's all that counts.. fuggit.

[Shawn Lutz]

Its not just kids who are overweight its so widespread in this country. People are lazy, don't eat healthy and do no exercise whatsoever. Parents are teaching unhealthy eating habits down to their chldren. Usually if you have overweight parents thye'll end up with an overweight child. They look for any excuse to pass blame on something other than themselves like metabolism rates and shit like that...put the fukin donut down, walk for 20-30 minutes a day iinstead of sitting in front of the TV feeding your face.

In the quest to outdo the Jones both parents are working more and more hours and that leavse kids home by themselves and eating anything they want. Kids really don't get any exercise with computer games, Xbox360, PS3's etc. Shit when I was a kid I was always outside playing real world stuff like baseball, football, hockey, basketball, army in the woods tag and shit like that...not sitting on my ass all day.

[VinceV]

There are loads of reasons why kids (and a lot of adults) in the US are overweight, but I'm convinced that a big one is soft drinks. When I was growing up, a Coke or Pepsi was something that we occasionally had as a treat. Nowadays, there are people who drink nothing but soda. I see it every day. Keeping your blood sugar elevated 24/7 is a recipe for disaster. It causes obesity and I'm positive it's a big factor in the epidemic of Type II diabetes we're seeing. Now our fucking under-funded schools take money from the big soda companies, and get kickbacks based on how much vending business they do.

I think this is very true.

I was reading an article a few months ago, and the jist of it was that. The reason that they believe so many kids and adults are so overweight now, is a little something called High Frutcose Corn Syrup. Which as many of you know is in everything now, especially Sodas. They use it because it is way cheaper than sugar and is much sweeter. Well it turns out that maybe our bodies don't handle the process of breaking it down well. Being that it is a product that is fairly new to the human diet, introduced within the last 50 years or so.

I guess the 100,000s of years of evolution it took for us to become what we are, can't adapt as quickly as we add new food/products to our diets. Think about it in the last 100 years or so, man has added more elements to his world and lifestyle than all of our history combined. Maybe not all of it is so good for us.

[horns666]

I think this is very true.

I was reading an article a few months ago, and the jist of it was that. The reason that they believe so many kids and adults are so overweight now, is a little something called High Frutcose Corn Syrup. Which as many of you know is in everything now, especially Sodas. They use it because it is way cheaper than sugar and is much sweeter. Well it turns out that maybe our bodies don't handle the process of breaking it down well. Being that it is a product that is fairly new to the human diet, introduced within the last 50 years or so.

I guess the 100,000s of years of evolution it took for us to become what we are, can't adapt as quickly as we add new food/products to our diets. Think about it in the last 100 years or so, man has added more elements to his world and lifestyle than all of our history combined. Maybe not all of it is so good for us.

OK that really made much sense..the logic is undeniable!!

Goddamit!

[dg]

Great point about the hf corn syrup, too. Studies are showing that it's worse than cane sugar because of how the body handles it. I try to keep that shit out of my family's diet and it's a real challenge. My wife is on the rampage about the stuff. We're cooking more & more from scratch, which is great but a real PITA some times.