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2. Obese people. why not include social studies to include the contributions that obese people have made to our society. Obese people in school get picked on all the time. Even liberal folks like some people here (not naming names), who champion diversity, always rails against “fat people”….
When does this hypersensitivity “training” ever going to end???[/quote]
BTW, I’m all for a mandatory weight management class and teaching kids where food comes from and how to cook it. It might be a good thing to start vegetable gardens on school grounds also.
Obesity is manageable. The problem is that kids think that eating pizza and drinking coke in front of the TV is normal. Not.
Oscar Wilde was gay and fat. He was also persecuted for being gay. Add him to the reading assignments.[/quote]
Saying that obesity is “manageable” is like saying that being gay is “manageable.” IMHO, neither one is a choice, and even though you claim that weight gain is under the control of the obese, it is not.
Some people take in calories and their bodies expend them without any intentional actions taken by the person, while others take in calories and store them, again, without any intentional actions taken by the person. What we need to understand is why some people’s bodies immediately turn calories into kinetic energy — for example, the hyperactive kid who can not sit down to save his/her life — and they are NOT *choosing* to behave like this any more than the “lazy” kid is *choosing* to be lazy — while some bodies seem to store the energy (the “lazy,” overweight kid).
