British kids are chubby fuc*ers!

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You gotta learn from the US man. The kids just aren't going to get thin, so they might as well get rich doing it.

Sue McDonalds.

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[Skyrad 0]

We can still stop this becoming a pandemic. Anyway that doesn't work does it?

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[unformed 0]

Suing McDonald's? For keeping kids healthy. No, it doesn't work. But it kills time. And when you've run out of companies to sue, you can always blame the other political party for all of your problems.

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you can always blame the other political party for all of your problems.

thats already a national pastime.

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[Douva 0]

I don't know what elementary physical education classes are like on your side of the pond or if they even exist, but when I was in elementary school here in the U.S., the classes didn't really teach much about physical fitness. We learned about various sports, practiced square dancing, and took the annual President's Physical Fitness Test. I think one smart idea for both U.S. and U.K. schools would be to teach kids WHY they should exercise and HOW they should exercise.

In two weeks, my gym will be packed with people whose New Years resolution is to get in shape. In six weeks, my gym will be back to its normal pace--Most of the New Years resolution crowd will have given up. They'll give up because they haven't built a lifestyle of exercising regularly, and they don't know how to exercise properly. To them, that two or three weeks of gym visits will feel like pure torture. This wouldn't be the case if they'd built a lifestyle of working out, when they were young, and learned years ago how to exercise properly.

We need to educate kids that the point of exercise isn't to look like you belong on a magazine cover; the point is to maintain one's health. Keeping body fat at a healthy level is one aspect of maintaining one's health through exercise, and not looking like a fat tub of lard is simply one of the benefits of that. Many people of all ages look at exercises as something you do to get skinny. They never worry about exercising until they're already fat; then they start into it with one foot in a hole. It's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back into shape. For most people, if they don't feel any skinnier after a few weeks of exercise, they quit. They give little or no thought to the other physical benefits they may have gained from exercising. To them it's all about the fat.

The other key element is diet, but I really think that issue is being tackled head-on by Western society. I know schools here in America are starting to remove soda and candy machines from the lunch rooms and to revamp lunch menus to provide healthier meals. Beyond that, diet is really the parents' responsibility--Kids do most of their eating outside of school. Moms and dads need to start watching those after school snacks and dinner entrees a little more closely.

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One of the best things that we could do in the US is get rid of the child labor laws. By the time that they are 16 yr. old there are a lot of lazy habits and attitudes that are really hard to break.

When I was twelve, I was working 11 hr. days doing farm labor. It never damaged me, as far as I can tell.

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My school was much the same, we didn't really learn a whole lot, but it did keep us active, we started with running around the field for twenty minutes and then moved on to whatever game we were playing that day. I know I don't have any kids in school at the moment but from what I understand kids are getting exemptions from their parents to not have to participate in the games, and where you used to be able to fail PE, now you can't fail. Society as a whole is contributing to the growing waistline in our country, all sies are to blme, everyone from teh school for not having the guts to stand up to the paretns and say if your kids don't pass PE they don't pass the grade, to the parents for not taking enoguh interest in their child's well-being to tell them to put the damn video game down and get outside.

People blaming fast food chains, that's just not living up to your mistakes, when I was growing up Mcdonald's was a treat because we never got to go, I used to complain but now thank my parents for not having junk food in the house and letting me get a happy meal once a month. Remember in the US we live in a capitalist society and they are more than welcome to put whatever greasy crap in fron tof us that they would like, if people want to lose weight than drive past it and maybe try the subway down teh street where you can get something a little bit healthier.

Sorry to rant so long but as seen in my post a few days ago this is one of my pet peeves

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When I was twelve, I was working 11 hr. days doing farm labor. It never damaged me, as far as I can tell.

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ditto, I grew up working long days on my dads cattle ranch, and when I was fourteen I got my first job outside the ranch as a ski instructor. growing up working did me good

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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When I was twelve, I was working 11 hr. days doing farm labor. It never damaged me, as far as I can tell.

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

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When I was twelve, I was working 11 hr. days doing farm labor. It never damaged me, as far as I can tell.

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You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

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Institute compulsory games of British Bulldog.

Only the fit ones would survive...

[rhys 0]

it is true that it is the education system and the parents fault, the parents fault probably goes back to the education system when they were at school.

there is less punishment in schools now and with all the P.C. bullshit you arent allowed to tell a kid they are fat.

even in New Zealand only if you studied Phisical education as a Subject of choice did you learn about nutrition.

It is weird how socioty demands the nutritional information on the products that supplies them but does not demand the knowledge to interpret it?

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When I was twelve, I was working 11 hr. days doing farm labor. It never damaged me, as far as I can tell.

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

Ahhh happy days

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You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

And yu tell that to kids today - and they won't believe ya

Never try to eat more than you can lift

[orribolollie 0]

Chub away I say! Let them pound lard sandwiches and forsake any kind of active lifestyle..what worth is getting sweaty anyway???

When they are to fat to leave their rooms, force a large wick down their throats and set them on fire. Their human lard candle bodies will heat the adjacent rooms of the skinny kids they deprived of food.

In time chubby fucks will become an accepted part of the energy crisis. Its possible that future governments will cull chuuby kids by tossing their fat bodies into old obsolete coal power stations.

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[Skyrad 0]

I see you're thinking 'outside the box' (just for Andy) I like it!

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What should be done to get these little chubby buggers fit so they don't bankrupt the NHS? think compulsory fat boot camp for the little chubbers is a good way to go

Forced labor camps for children, and re-education camps for adults.

Now there's a great idea.

I think I've heard of these things somewhere before...

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Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

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Yes Kallend we all know that the fact that you have never seen a day of hard labor in your life makes you a far superior being than everyone who actually breaks a sweat at work, but do you have to take every opportunity to belittle people?

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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Yes Kallend we all know that the fact that you have never seen a day of hard labor in your life makes you a far superior being than everyone who actually breaks a sweat at work, but do you have to take every opportunity to belittle people?

Humor seems to be lost on some in this forum today. (Not specifically this post)

I pretty sure Kallend was joking, and not belittling.

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[unformed 0]

To be fair, I started it, and it was meant to be funny, not belittling.

They're both direct quotes from a Monty Python skit, which I highly recommend if you haven't seen it before.
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To be fair, I started it, and it was meant to be funny, not belittling.

I had a good laugh over both posts. Thanks for keeping it light.

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So British youngsters are becoming disgustingly fat. Obease little chubbers. What should be done to get these little chubby buggers fit so they don't bankrupt the NHS? think compulsory fat boot camp for the little chubbers is a good way to go and parents should be made to attend nutrition classes if they have chubber children.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18122006/325/chubby-children-london-plan-lean-christmas.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/obesity/children.shtml

Somehow a national health care system seems like less of a good idea when stupidity is subsidized...

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So British youngsters are becoming disgustingly fat. Obease little chubbers. What should be done to get these little chubby buggers fit so they don't bankrupt the NHS? think compulsory fat boot camp for the little chubbers is a good way to go and parents should be made to attend nutrition classes if they have chubber children.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18122006/325/chubby-children-london-plan-lean-christmas.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/obesity/children.shtml

Somehow a national health care system seems like less of a good idea when stupidity is subsidized...

This thread is about British kids, but have you seen the US numbers (and Canada is on par). Looking at this PowerPoint prez a couple of years ago, I was appalled at the increase in supersized persons.

But it's not stupidity. Hell, when I took a job that involved mostly air and car travel, with hotel room service to boot, I gained 35 pounds. It sneaks up on a person in some cases, with lack of regular activity and diet. My diet isn't the best, but I make an effort to control it. And a helping of soylent green every day helps.

I really believe in letting kids go out and run around, get off the internet, and burn off the calories. But then there're too many risky things out there that parents worry about.

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What should be done to get these little chubby buggers fit so they don't bankrupt the NHS? think compulsory fat boot camp for the little chubbers is a good way to go

Forced labor camps for children, and re-education camps for adults.

Now there's a great idea.

I think I've heard of these things somewhere before...

And it worked didn't it! If Hotler had stopped before invading Poland he most likely would have made Time magazine man of the year two years in a row instead of just once. Now clearly I'm not advocating Nazi doctrine or policy but I'd like to see the health pandemic of Obesity related disease stopped while we can still make a difference. When you have children who are 112-13 who weigh 20 Stones then (With the exception of real madical conditions) that is child abuse. Child abuse should be stopped or would you rather turn a blind eye and make like an ostrich (as opposed to a Johnrich)
Remember, in this country WE pay for those peoples healthcare.

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