Comments on: Another Reason Not to Have Children

By: Weight loss: A matter of choice? « spacedcowgirl

Weight loss: A matter of choice? « spacedcowgirl — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:38:20 +0000

[...] denying people health insurance, and it looks like it won’t be long before they start taking people’s children away. And it is much less possible to “just lose weight” to avoid these consequences than [...]

By: Kate217

Kate217 — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:44:51 +0000

Of course, the correlation of heart disease and diabetes with fat couldn't have anything to do with the fact that fat people live under seige every moment of their lives, could it? All of these official concern trolls so conveniently overlook the fact that being severely underweight is demonstrably dangerous and yet the fat hysteria is leading to eating disorders in ever younger children. The thing that bothers me most is that when we do actually end up with a generation that is shorter, less intelligent, and sicker, it will be attributed to obesity rather than the malnutrition caused by fat hysteria. It makes me despair.

By: mermaid upstream

mermaid upstream — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:59:47 +0000

So sad and frustrating. Also brought to mind the works of child psychologist Alice Miller, who writes about the effects of harsh attitudes and treatment of children on the justification that it’s for their own “good.” Needless to say, it’s most often not.

By: goodwithcheese

goodwithcheese — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:53:46 +0000

As someone who works in social services, I am mostly aghast that someone would think this isn’t a gigantic waste of already overburned child protection agencies.

There are kids out there who get burned with cigarettes, whose parents and caregivers punch them and tie them up and scald them and break their bones and hand them over to strangers to be victimized again and again.

So, by all means, waste the time of social workers with this rot and maybe let some of those kids who are actually in danger die. Genius!

By: Meowser

Meowser — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:31:14 +0000

I keep thinking about the identical-twin photos. Of all those hundreds of sets of adult twins, was there a single set where one twin was thin and one was fat? Was there even a set where there was any significant difference in the BMI between the twins? That ought to tell any thinking person that weight for the vast majority of people is about GENETICS GENETICS GENETICS, first and foremost, since you can’t tell me that all those twins, having lived apart for years, have exactly the same daily calorie intake and output.

But since when do government officials think, especially when $$$$$ and lots of it is involved? Sandy is right, this is about selling more pills and more medical equipment first and foremost, and nobody is going to convince me otherwise.

By: Nancy Lebovitz

Nancy Lebovitz — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:04:08 +0000

I expect all hell to break lose. Politicians were shocked to find that online gamblers could form an effective pressure group if their hobby was threatened. That’s nothing compared to what the politicians will get from the parents of fat and potentially fat children.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:37:09 +0000

This is maddening. You’ve got a great blog here and what pisses me off if that we’ll let kids go back to abusive(physically, verbally, sexually) parents, but condemn the parents for this, it’s disgusting.

By: kateharding

kateharding — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:06:07 +0000

Nicole, sure, if Sandy doesn’t mind you posting it here, I’d love to see it.

Divajean, yeah, I blogged about that yesterday. Zimulti will be the U.S. name for Acomplia. Grrrrrr.

By: Divajean

Divajean — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:51:27 +0000

Add more depression to the mix. Evidently, the feds are considering approving a drug called Zimulti that has shown to decrease the pleasure receptors in the brain- so fatties don’t enjoy eating. Oh- and the unpleasant side of effect of depression… but that’s okay, since we all clearly need to be depressed more about how fat we are…

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070613/ap_on_he_me/obesity_drug_5;_ylt=AnJk0QhGIlRXESWPje9tY.oE1vAI

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:40:04 +0000

Just a note: I got a lovely, thoughtful response from Sandy a few minutes ago. I will post some of her ideas later, if that’s OK.