Childhood obesity

u would not be obese on the shyte they served when I was at school ,thinking back I dont remember that many overweight kids

few puppy fat cases  but little else

Anyone spot the gag or was it just not worthy of acknowledgement?

I thought it was quite funny, btw.

Just heard that the survey was conducted by FIFA.

We know why they're fat but why are we worse than France, Germany etc etc

This country's bullies are simply not up to the task. I'm still going to do my part and laugh at fat kids.

I'm a bit sceptical -- round here you do not see many lardarses, though there are some, of course. I wonder if the official statistics are made worse because they are weighing kids against "normal" figures that are out of date (and probably for the wrong race half the time as well).

Yes, kids weigh more than they used to in the 50s and 60s but they are also (a) taller and (b) reach puberty earlier (and (c) are more likely to be Black).

Wait until Angel Gabriel sees this thread.

He says that people who look at children or make observations about them are voyeurs.
Or worse.

I can only conclude that he thinks that everybody views children in the same way that he does. Whatever that might be.

I can only remember one chubber from school, a lad called Ian Potts. Strangely he was only ever called Pottsy, and seemed to escape a fat related nickname.
iirc he was rarely bullied, although he would occasionally be "baited" in the manner of a bear in the quadrangle.
In fact for an all boys school he got off quite lightly (:)). One particularly sadistic teacher did always call him the Michelin Man though, usually to raise a laugh from the class at the expense of poor old Pottsy.
Apparently his weight was a "glandular" problem.

Piggy Watson as the only fatty at my school.

It's a good job there is all this poverty around. Imagine how fat they'd be if they had more money.

The US obesity epidemic (adults) by state, 1985 - 2010:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH0tWM4H0h8

The old ‘eat less, exercise more’ argument.

Basically you are asking people to do the very thing that by becoming obese in the first place they’ve shown they just can’t do – eat less. And on top of that, do the one thing that’s guaranteed to increase their appetites – exercise more.

It's not that simple. Carbs drive insulin drives fat and insulin interferes with satiety signals from leptin causing the person to feel hungry. This is a message from the brain saying 'eat more', they really are starving even though they've eaten enough. If the diet placed a bigger emphasis on good quality fats, not trans or polyunsaturates, and not on carbohydrate they wouldn't be spiking their insulin all day long and leptin could do its job better.

If you are unlucky with your genes you'll likely not handle carbs that well eventually, even super fit athletes are not immune as Steve Redgrave found out when he trained himself to diabetes on carbs.

Stuffing your face with carbs is a form of Russian Roulette and if the thought of the insulin causing type 2 diabetes isn't enough, the possibility of it damaging your brain and giving you diabetes type 3 - or Alzheimer's as it is more commonly known, ought to make you think twice.