Yes, I have seen these reports, rick, but I DON'T see the overweight children! I DO see a lot of overweight adults, however. In order to get to my grand's classroom, I walk past the rest of the children in her school. I simply see healthy children. Yes, when I go out, I do see, on occasion, an overweight child, but not in epidemic numbers!
Let me ask you...what are these obese kids wearing? I do not go into Walmart or Penny's and see a large section of clothing for them. Since these stores are into marketing, don't you think they would hop on the bandwagon? They carry clothes for obese adults.
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
Which means what concerning the topic?
I wonder if fat people think that other fat people/children are fat?
Of course, I haven’t personally seen any terrorist, so there must not be any terrorist.
Good old Walmart – anything, and I mean ANYTHING they do MUST represent the buying majority’s desires.
I’m open-minded, I just won’t consider ANYTHING that disagrees with my open-mindedness.
Of course, I haven’t personally seen any terrorist, so there must not be any terrorist.
Good old Walmart – anything, and I mean ANYTHING they do MUST represent the buying majority’s desires.
I’m open-minded, I just won’t consider ANYTHING that disagrees with my open-mindedness.
Don't know. I'm not fat, but I assume they can see. I see thin people.
Yes, I understand what you are saying, however I have found many things just aren't so, but someone makes good money talking about it!
Yes, I understand what you are saying, however I have found many things just aren't so, but someone makes good money talking about it!
"Whatever you do, just don’t confuse them with facts."
Must I look up who Oliver is?quote:Originally posted by Mike from West Yorkshire:
Hence Mr Oliver's need to do something about it. Yeah, I know he got the publicity, that can only help his career as a chef, but it did mean that the gubmint actually gave more money to school meals so they actually cook things, rather than just microwaving bought-in rubbish.
Isn't microwave popcorn healthy? No need discussing microwave tea.
Most things are at least ok...depending on how much you eat!
If I could just get wheatgrass juice to taste like Tim Tams.
Uhh OH! 
But, it is easier to turn aquote:Originally posted by Rick:
If I could just get wheatgrass juice to taste like Tim Tams.
into a 
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Yep..I suppose so.
quote:Originally posted by Rick:
FATTY RANKING
Looks like the gold goes to Scotland, with U.S. getting the silver.
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How recent are those stats Rick? I was told the other day that Australia had surpassed the US and were climbing the ladder quickly.
Mr Oliver, Mr Jamie Oliver was most famous (originally) as the Naked Chef...which is what I was hinting at with Mike 
He has done a very good job of changing tuck shop ways over there and has been to the US to do the same I believe.
I see alot of heavy children here and did comment to MIL whilst over in the US that the children did seem a little more heavy than healthy.
Happy to say that both my boys would much rather be outside destroying something than inside watching TV or playing Xbox....thats bound to change.
Kids these days in general are alot bigger, when I was in high school, I was tall for my age at 5'5...now the average height for girls 5'8. Other body parts seem to have increased in size too.
Boys are fricken HUGE now, I see 15 and 16 year old boys that are 6'3 and they havent stopped growing...whereas when I was at school....6' seemed to be the norm.
Go GMF!!...Not!
He has done a very good job of changing tuck shop ways over there and has been to the US to do the same I believe.
I see alot of heavy children here and did comment to MIL whilst over in the US that the children did seem a little more heavy than healthy.
Happy to say that both my boys would much rather be outside destroying something than inside watching TV or playing Xbox....thats bound to change.
Kids these days in general are alot bigger, when I was in high school, I was tall for my age at 5'5...now the average height for girls 5'8. Other body parts seem to have increased in size too.
Boys are fricken HUGE now, I see 15 and 16 year old boys that are 6'3 and they havent stopped growing...whereas when I was at school....6' seemed to be the norm.
Go GMF!!...Not!
quote:Originally posted by Rick:
Must I look up who Oliver is?
Rick
Lexie has beaten me to it!
'Ere 'e is
Now I shall have to look up wheatgrass juice and Tim Tams - the latter sound like ladies' tampons!
Back to schoolkids being obese in England, that is only one of the problems that later generations will suffer from:
- Couch potatoes - the amount of TV allowed.
- No active interests or hobbies.
- Useless heroes and role models of today. 'Celebrities', pop stars, foolballers [sic].
- The fact that English was not taught for 30 years or so in schools, so kids are inarticulate and cannot communicate.
- Smoking and binge-drinking that eventually kills.
- Total lack of manners, now second generation. I'm all right, Jack!
There are (possibly a majority) whose kids are not like this, thankfully.
We will all watch this space.......
Lexie, the article was published December 18, 2005. Here’s the article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1922831,00.htmlquote:Originally posted by Bartelby:
How recent are those stats Rick? I was told the other day that Australia had surpassed the US and were climbing the ladder quickly.
I could see a U.S. paper forgetting about Australia, but the English are familiar with geography.
OK, now you’ve gotten my nationalistic pride going. Time to prove that America is the Fat Capital (we Americans hate not being in first place). This is a two-parter:
- In recent times (say, the last 10 years) has any other nation's leader (democratically elected – there’s no accounting for a dictator’s taste) had a mistress that was as “plump” as Monica Lewinsky?
- In recent times (same 10 year period) has any other mistress of a nation's leader appeared in a diet commercial (Jenny Craig)?
Had to look up “tuck shop”. I thought it was a typo and the U.S. was following Amsterdam’s retail example.quote:Originally posted by Bartelby:
He has done a very good job of changing tuck shop ways over there and has been to the US to do the same I believe.
Don’t know about there, Mike, but over here, for the first half of the 20th century (or thereabouts), it was considered a sign of success/prosperity to be overweight, at least with males. May have also been that way for wives (probably not applicable to mistresses).quote:Originally posted by Mike from West Yorkshire:
Back to schoolkids being obese in England, that is only one of the problems that later generations will suffer from:
I believe the health problems of being overweight (euphemism) are as significant, or more, than smoking, yet it would be considered poor manners to discuss someone else eating too much, but acceptable to comment about smokers. Of course, I have seen any studies about the dangers of second-hand food crumbs, or perhaps belching would be a better comparison.
Did England have its own version of China’s Cultural Revolution? If not English, what was being taught?quote:Originally posted by Mike from West Yorkshire:The fact that English was not taught for 30 years or so in schools, so kids are inarticulate and cannot communicate.
quote:Originally posted by Rick:
Did England have its own version of China’s Cultural Revolution? If not English, what was being taught?
Hi Rick
I feel a rant coming on.......
Lip service was paid to English in schools, but without the grammar, punctuation or spelling; nowadays I would call it eBayese.
The average 16-year old has a literacy of about 6 compared, say, to 1955.
A quick browse through ebay.co.uk will support this. Amusing, but sad. It can be useful for searches, though, as if the seller cannot read the name of something they are looking at, there may be less bids.
The theory was that all these things are not important and communication will survive - as we now rely on the written word more and more, it seems they were very wrong.
Employees despair about the input of school leavers!
Occasionally, Mr Bliar [sic] and his cronies wake up from a long sleep and acknowledge that we need to overhaul the curriculum and go back to the 'three Rs' but then they all fall asleep again.
I wish were we half so concerned about children who are abused or children who are starving everywhere!