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Curvies would be banned?

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I think that this childhood obesity is an other blown out of proportion problem as well.

The primary school my daughter goes to seems like their is no fat kids at all.

There are plenty of fat kids around and I think the parents should be held responsible for it. In almost all cases it’s a simple case of gluttony not ‘glandular’ or heavy bones etc. which is an other example of how the UK has this lets try and find a name/ blame others for my problems situation get out of hand.

Again I do think the way the UK has gone all PC a bit to blame. For example how many of us when we were kids played tag or some form of hide and seek or the classic British bulldog, which lets face it was rugby with out the ball. They have all been banned from schools incase the little darlings get Hurt. Those activitys must have burned loads of calories in a break time. Now all the kids do is stand and talk etc.

Kids need to run around to use energy!!

I hate seeing fat kids and feel like picking on them myself when I see them, or the parents!! So I think fat kids should be picked on at school, it might stop them and get them to do something about it.

The Uk has got lazy, how many kids do you see walk to school, partly because everyone drives them and partly because like Matt said the papers will have us believe that if they go on their own they will be kidnapped and murdered!! FFS .

When I was a kid I walked to school all of my highs school days about 2.5 miles each way with some mates.

There for some reason has been a decline in sports, partly because some schools have been selling off their land to build houses on. My old high school has sold off 1/3 to have houses on.

We need something like the states have where sports play a big part, not only to benefit the kids and get them active but to ensure our national teams survive and get better. Have the same sort of scholarships and high school leagues, why do you think the staes are so good at most sports??? Cos they invest in it from a young age.

I hate seeing a fat person to me it’s a sign of lack of personal pride; I have very little respect for big fat people in any walk of life. How can you they don’t look after themselves or care by the look of it, why should I respect a big fat lazy mess?? I am not talking about middle age spread, it will come to us all, but when you see a young fat person, all respect for them goes out the window IMO.

I am lucky my job encourages fitness and I enjoy doing it its part of my working day and frowned upon if I am unfit.
There is no excuse for being fat other than lazyness!!

And I agree that the NHS should refuse operations etc to really obese people, as most of their problems are related to their lack of self restraint and ability to not eat.

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Funny that, the same happens to me with extremist people.

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If you are refering to me ill just go and get my big bag of bothered from the corner.

its my opinion which just like you i am entilted to.

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I never said otherwise. But I still reserve myself the right to think what I want about it. You can do the same to mine too. :thumright:

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will do ;):thumright:

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A few years ago it was about those models who were dead skinny and it was called Heroin Chic. Remember that?

Maybe Heroin is just the cure for obese children.

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Hmm, come to think about it, I've never once seen a chubby junkie. Do you think they used to put it in the free school milk or something?

Oh, and Dizzy - not all curves, I'm quite the admirer of well proportioned curves in the right places :D Maybe just curvey SVs :D Though I'm buggered if I'm going to be riding around on an SV when I'm Supreme Overlord...

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less sat in front of the tv/pc/playstation

more get out & play football/tennis/kiss chase

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On a slightly more serious note (a) yep I agree with Neio in that it's probably been blown up out of proportion a bit, we've got so little to really worry about these days that we keep needing to be fed new things to be frightened of. The huddled masses are beginning to see through the "terrorist on every corner" lie and need to be spoon fed something else to worry about.

Don't really think we can say the answer lies in the States' approach though, after all they pretty much (re)invented modern day obesity. Don't think it's a UK specific problem either, the whole of Western Europe is going through the same thing at the moment.

Basket's probably hit the nail on the head with war. We (by which I mean late twenties to early fifties) are probably the last generation whose parents vaguely remembered the end of rationing and as such their parents instilled something of a culture of careful consumption, which they then, to a lesser degree passed on to their own kids. Europe arguably took 20 years longer than the US to recover from the war, whereas the US went quite quickly to a life of excess and as such an excessive lifestyle hit a generation early and obesity emerged there in the late 70s, in Europe it took us another generation to get over the wartime shortages and mentality.