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Showing Original Post only (View all)kids are diebetic and obese?..I wonder why [View all]
There is no mystery about why so many kids are obese and sick these days....they don't ever exercise.
I am trapped behind a schoolbus usually about twice a week coming home from work and what I see are fat kids being pampered by their equally fat parents.Sorry but that's how it is.
I see kids who live 100 yards from the road who can't walk to the house...their parents have to pick them up.Even then they act like walking 50 feet to the car is some sort of torture
I see massively overweight kids who get picked up by their parents who are seen reaching for the food and pop before the car even pulls out.
WE are to blame for our kids being fat
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Also the all about fear parents who watch cable and will not let their kids out to play
lunasun
Oct 2014
#5
Amen. We moved two years ago to the neighborhood our kid's school is in and love it
joeglow3
Oct 2014
#29
I don't mean to be a downer but being in a nice neighborhood can be deceiving.
liberal_at_heart
Oct 2014
#46
Nope, sorry -- the OP saw fat kids on a bus. That never happened when he was little.
Brickbat
Oct 2014
#9
The AUTHORS of the study never made the cherry picked assertion that was in that headline.
KurtNYC
Oct 2014
#31
A Music teacher? One of my favorite people. I had some wonderful music teachers when I was young.
BlueJazz
Oct 2014
#37
You take one study, with a fairly small increase in concern, and then make a claim...
HuckleB
Oct 2014
#26
Journal of Pediatrics, Oct 2014 - University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital
KurtNYC
Oct 2014
#33
You try to claim cherry picking above, even though it doesn't make sense, and then you do it here.
HuckleB
Oct 2014
#49
Brainwash nation that has been brainwashed to obesity and brainwashed into thinking it is acceptable
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#27
I live just around the corner from my kid's bus stop and I pick him up.
liberal_at_heart
Oct 2014
#32
bullshit. both boys, no fat kids in their sphere. not saying there are not fat kids.
seabeyond
Oct 2014
#51