Childhood obesity ads by canttakesky

America loves a winner!

Americans aren't becoming fat and soft. We already are. How can we have a federal govt worried about children going to bed hungry when we have the most obese kids in the world ?

The nanny state is failing, miserable, because we've stopped trying to teach people to THINK for themselves.

When you can't think for yourself, you can't act for yourself, and you relinquish all decision making to your masters.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012 2:45 PM

Beir bua agus beannacht

I agree with Frem that we need to get all those fake things out of our food supply where possible because they're bad for our bodies. But I do think that childhood obesity is an issue that seems to get worse as time goes by, partly because of those crap ingredients and partly because parents aren't taking it seriously. I fail to see how Raptor's statement relates to this particular thread.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012 2:57 PM

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by RionaEire: I fail to see how Raptor's statement relates to this particular thread.

I wasn't commenting on the specifics of the ad campaign, but of the issue of obesity in general in the United States.

But yeah, probably not the best way to get through to kids / parents that there are better ways to live healthy.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012 7:57 PM

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Originally posted by RionaEire:
... partly because of those crap ingredients and partly because parents aren't taking it seriously.

Not the only reasons kids are overweight. I think medical issues are a big part of the problem, too. Kids with Prader-Willie, undiagnosed thyroid problems, blood sugar problems, arthritis, temperature sensitivity problems, depression, "fat genes" slow metabolism, ect...I think adverts like that are a slap in the face to kids already trying to deal with the shit nature gives them, and then double slaps them with self-appearance problems too...

My kid is a foot taller than all of her classmates, and the next grade too. She can't run the length of a room without getting a side stitch, because she's already stretched out. That combined with her temperature problems, and fabulous genetics...yeah, she's chunky and she knows it. Commercial like that WOULD damage her fragile little ego, no doubt about it. Once she slows down on the growing it should get easier for her, but until then.... she can't hear how pretty she is quite enough, and I make sure she has a closetfull of the nicest dresses around. All I can do, for now...

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012 3:48 AM

DREAMTROVE

Local food. all the junking of food is done to create durable foodlike objects. Buy locally. Okay, maybe that's easier her.

Prader-Willi Syndrome is genetic. Or rather, chromosomal, but definitely hereditary. Mice with it are stillborn, for obvious reasons.

Wish, walking. Make sure she walks, and doesn't sit. And watch the high carb items, they shut down the body's fat burning. I found this out digging around on type one diabetes for chris. it's a direct link, the insulin response actively closes the fat cells, preventing fat burning.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012 10:32 AM

Yep, we don't do desserts, 'cept ice cream in the summertime, and she and I share a coke a week. My mom was an aerobics instructor in the 80's, she couldn't handle having a chunky kid. We grew all of our food, even the chickens, but I still got Weight Watchers and sent to a gym. Never was what people consider "slim." Didn't take lunch all through high school, either. Even worked two jobs, didn't matter. My great gran was chunky all her days and she was 96, btw...I'm somewhat lucky I married a man that likes us cuddly girls, even if I think it's just so he don't have to go on a diet, his own self

Though I agree, after it being pointed out, some models DO look like there's something wrong with 'em...
'Course there's definately something wrong with THIS chick too...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2081664/Mayra-Rosales-74-sto
ne-babysitter-Worlds-fattest-woman-set-free-murder-charge.html

Scary. I think she ate him.

No where ta walk here. Can't take her outside most of the year. School won't let anyone into the gym, lest the floors be besmirched. They won't even let the kids on it until they change into shoes that haven't been outside

Yeah, working on getting the hell outta here...

Here's another good reason why this country is fubar-ed

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/does-childhood-stress-stay-whole-life
-211800176.html

Most of the comments are women. Maybe we should start looking after the girls here a little better??

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012 6:04 PM

Beir bua agus beannacht

I think that there's a difference between chunky and fat, some kids are naturally bigger than others, and since our genetics are getting worse and worse it stands to reason that that plays some role, but I still think that transfats are bad.

I was thin and average until high school when I chunked out a bit, was that way through high school and college and then I lost the extra 20 pounds, not intentionally, it just happened because of the change of not doing college anymore. I'm very pleased with my weight and physical appearance today. I think of myself as being quite pretty and my mom says it makes me sound conceded, but I need something about my body to be proud of since the rest of it doesn't work right at all and is troublesome. My appearance and my super good immune system though are things I'm proud of.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012 6:19 PM

America loves a winner!

Hey Riona.. got a pic you can send me ?

hee hee

As long as one is healthy, I have no problem with them feeling good about themselves. It's when folks got to the extremes, of either letting themselves go, or being so obsessed over how they look, that they often lose perspective.

What I really can't fathom is when folks who 'waddle' around,and think they really look great.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012 6:32 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Hey Riona.. got a pic you can send me ?
hee hee

TRAP!!!!!

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012 6:36 PM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:

No where ta walk here. Can't take her outside most of the year. School won't let anyone into the gym, lest the floors be besmirched. They won't even let the kids on it until they change into shoes that haven't been outside Yeah, working on getting the hell outta here...

Gee that sucks. I can't imagine it. Do you not go outside because of the weather?

Weight is pretty simple really. If calories in are greater than calories used, fat is stored. The human body has evolved to be very efficient at storing fat, it was of great benefit when we could expect periods of near starvation to have those reserves built up. The issue is that most people live sedentary lives and food, especially those high in fat and high in sugar are plentiful and easy to obtain.

To not be fat, you have to eat less than you burn. If you live a sedentary, indoor life, you actually should eat very little, even as a child.

I think those kind of lifestyles are terrible, for your physical and mental well being. I think we all need to move and we all need to be outdoors as much as possible.

Wish, I'm not sure how old your daughter is, but does she do anything like swimming, or scouts?

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012 6:39 PM

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Originally posted by RionaEire:

I was thin and average until high school when I chunked out a bit, was that way through high school and college and then I lost the extra 20 pounds, not intentionally, it just happened because of the change of not doing college anymore. I'm very pleased with my weight and physical appearance today. I think of myself as being quite pretty and my mom says it makes me sound conceded, but I need something about my body to be proud of since the rest of it doesn't work right at all and is troublesome. My appearance and my super good immune system though are things I'm proud of.

Good on you, Riona. Enjoy your body and appreciate its youth.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012 6:59 PM

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:

Gee that sucks. I can't imagine it. Do you not go outside because of the weather?

Wish, I'm not sure how old your daughter is, but does she do anything like swimming, or scouts?

My kid is "allergic ta cold" it's called Cold Urticaria. She can't be exposed for more than a few minutes or rashes that look like leopard spots appear, and it's getting worse, I think- due to hormones... And yes, we LOVE swimming, during the summer. There are NO indoor pools in my county. We did sports for a couple seasons, but I'm serious- the girl cannot run, and won't try. We really really would like to move somewhere warmer, but can't until we finish this home remodel as we can't sell in our current condition. Didn't know she had it five years ago, because it was so mild, but like I said -it's gotten worse.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012 9:21 PM

Beir bua agus beannacht

Wish, I'm hoping that once puberty sets in it will get better instead of worse for her, sometimes kids grow out of difficult things when they hit puberty ... but sometimes difficult things get worse. :(

Raptor, I have old youtube videos of myself singing trad that were made 3 and a half years ago at age 22, I'm three years older now but basically look the same. Just look for RionaEire on youtube if you want to see.

Yes I really did just do that.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012 9:44 PM

Oh my lord, Riona. Not only very, very pretty but what a voice!! Thank you for sharing that. She Moved Through the Fair is one of my favourites. We played it at our wedding. Not entirely appropriate, but hey, it was our wedding.

Can I ask about your accent. You sing with a very Irish one. Is that your local accent, or just what you sing with.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 12:53 AM

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by RionaEire:
Raptor, I have old youtube videos of myself singing trad that were made 3 and a half years ago at age 22, I'm three years older now but basically look the same. Just look for RionaEire on youtube if you want to see.

Yes I really did just do that.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

What Magonsdaughter said. ( except for the wedding part ) VERY impressive.

And ditto Wish's comment on your favoring River, a wee bit!

Sorry, but you're going to have lots more adoring fans now. There's no changin' that! hee hee.

Gettin' you to share vids of you signing might very well be MY best contribution to fff.net - ever !

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. - Someone.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 2:20 AM

FREMDFIRMA

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
No where ta walk here. Can't take her outside most of the year. School won't let anyone into the gym, lest the floors be besmirched. They won't even let the kids on it until they change into shoes that haven't been outside...

Yanno, that has GOT to be hands-down, one of the stupidest things I've ever heard, and I've heard some winners in my time, hard not to with Rappy and PN always willing to add to the pile, yanno ?

Ask kids not to make a mess ?
Sheeeit, why not ask birds not to fly, fish not to swim, you'd get about as far, and yet the system and the people in it continue to try - you have any idea how MUCH pyschological and emotional abuse it takes just to discourage a child from asking questions ?
All that effort, spent for naught, or for minimal "gain" so far as "gain" is measured in the destruction of their humanity, and all we really need DO to make our world, our society, that much of a better place is get the hell out of each others way and just let humans BE human.
Too bad no one else seems to see it like that.

So they're gonna muck up the floor, so freakin what, give the custodian something to do besides reading porno mags in the maintanence closet all day, wouldn't it ?

That reminds me of some real idiocy on Ft Lee at the Quartermaster school, of exactly the same stripe.
The unit I was training with for a period of time, and not so very long as that, was so goddamn flaky about the barracks floor that you weren't even ALLOWED in there without the permission of a squad leader and even then you hadda borrow these stupid freakin slipcovers for your boots, yadda freakin yadda, all spit and shine and polish, and don't ya know they spent so much time sucking up for inspections not a bloody ONE of em could do their proper job, the cooks couldn't cook, and the supply yahoos couldn't read an invoice for shit, wouldn't know an audit if it bit them, and as far as the primary job of a soldier goes they were utterly incompetent - they looked pretty though...
*insert derisive sneer here*
Needless to say our mutually inconsistent viewpoints of things clashed in what eventually became a pretty ugly fashion and noting my effect on other personnel the company commander gave me fifth platoon instead of risking more trouble, the hilarity of which is that fifth platoon had only one member.

And of course, they inspected that forty-man bay and found it wanting, at which point I pointed out it was clean, servicable and free of vermin, ergo who gives a shit how shiny the floors are!
Funny, that was the last time *anyone* bothered with inspection of bay five.
Even funnier is that fifth platoon scored the highest on coursework, leading to my constant mocking of the other platoons as a bunch namby-pampy housemaid wannabes.

Anyhows, I daresay a little rule-breaking is not only justified, but downright healthy, in regards to their spiffy, shiny floor - teach some folk what their priorities should be, it would.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 7:38 AM

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Originally posted by RionaEire:

Raptor, I have old youtube videos of myself singing trad that were made 3 and a half years ago at age 22, I'm three years older now but basically look the same. Just look for RionaEire on youtube if you want to see.

Yes I really did just do that.

Nice Job, Ri! And you don't look anything like I pictured, but you look like River, just a wee bit... If you were looking for constructive criticism, I would say don't be afraid to explore the deeper side of your voice- I can hear it in there. And a little more inflection of rhythm wouldn't hurt. Otherwise, really, really good! And hey, you can remember the whole song! More than I can do, my memory is shite.

Also, on the subject matter, I would like ta add my hubbs was Army about 15 years ago, and they wanted him to get down to a certain weight, and when he did he went all anemic. Not everybody is SUPPOSED to be a stick figure. Some people really do need extra reserves.

And Frem- I have a sneakin suspicion the groundskeeper/janitor has ocd. But I will say the floors are from the late 70's and they still look pretty good. I think they figure they wouldn't get funds for a new floor, since they are chopping out and consolidating schools left and right here to save a buck, we even share a principal with two other schools. I would say worry 'bout it when the time comes, but then I ain't calling the shots either...

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 9:43 AM

Ugh, I just saw a commercial for milk which basically tells this little boy he needs has to be as tall as the other boy in his class so he can play basketball and he can do that just by drinking milk, which I'm not entirely convinced is that good for you anyway...

GEEEEZ. LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE, ALREADY! THEY ARE NOT JUST ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL...

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 11:38 AM

Beir bua agus beannacht

Wow, thanks guys, I really appreciate your kindness. You can read my original fiction too if you want. :)

Magon's, I talk with an Irish accent, its a chosen accent, people in my area just sound like typical television Americans, I'm in Portland on the west coast, its a big city in Oregon, the state everyone forgets. My inner being is Irish though so I've chosen to have an Irish accent, sometimes its thicker than other times and sometimes its very thin indeed, it gets thicker when I'm upset and hurting.

Those were recorded in my friend's basement about 3 and a half years ago so age me a little bit and you know what I look and sound like.

Thank you again, you guys made my day.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 1:18 PM

Have you been to Ireland, Riona? It's a lovely place. Lots of opportunity for you to use your voice.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 2:40 PM

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by RionaEire:
Wow, thanks guys, I really appreciate your kindness. You can read my original fiction too if you want. :)

Magon's, I talk with an Irish accent, its a chosen accent, people in my area just sound like typical television Americans, I'm in Portland on the west coast, its a big city in Oregon, the state everyone forgets. My inner being is Irish though so I've chosen to have an Irish accent, sometimes its thicker than other times and sometimes its very thin indeed, it gets thicker when I'm upset and hurting.

Hold up here... am I reading you right ? You're NOT Irish, or of Irish decent, but speak with an Irish accent, out of choice ? Kinda like how River puts on her cockney accent, when talking to Badger ?

Can you kill folks w/ you brain? Just askin'.

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. - Someone.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 4:45 PM

You can't??

I guess we take it for granted, but we walk around the house jumping from Russian, to Austrailian, to British (both kinds-elistist and lowbrow) Chinese, Irish, Mexican...

I can't do Indian(dot) that well. Hubbs is a master of impressions, though. He can do all the Mako incarnations- Aku from Samurai Jack and Conan and Uncle Iroh, Mr Crabs from Spongebob, and many others just spot on. I've thought about getting a routine together for him...

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 5:12 PM

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
You can't??..

*sulks*

No. I just do the one crappy accent I have. Always loved accents though, and impressions, voice mimics, etc... From Rich Little to Dana Carvey to Frank Caliendo , the ability to portray someone else has always fascinated me.

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. - Someone.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 5:40 PM

I'm curious...Do you have poor hearing, tone-deafness, dyslexia,nonmusical, have ADD, mouth or throat problems?? Maybe you didn't watch movies where people used accents until you were past the age of 9 or 10??

There are many reasons people can't adapt to accents....

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 5:46 PM

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
I'm curious...Do you have poor hearing, tone-deafness, dyslexia,nonmusical, have ADD, mouth or throat problems?? Maybe you didn't watch movies where people used accents until you were past the age of 9 or 10??

There are many reasons people can't adapt to accents....

Nope, none of that.( Well, I am pretty non-musical, ability wise ) I have decent hearing, and can crudely mimic , briefly, a few notables, but that's about it. Sure can't carry on a conversation or 'sing' like anyone else. Hell, I can't even sing period. If I can't stand the sound of my own voice, i know no one else can.

Ever heard anyone do a really poor accent ? My guess is that it's mostly from not hearing it enough properly, and seldom practiced... but that's not so much my problem. I just think some have more of a talent for such things than others. Short folks wish they were taller, others wish they could do voice impressions. *shrugs* Either ya got it or ya don't.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 5:54 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Meh, it's actually kind of amusing to some to hear me talk, since I cover for a mild speech impediment with a sort of monotone 20's era gangster-ese, some of the folk I game with are quite familiar with it.
Of course, it's when I stop talkin that's the creepy part....

-F

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Friday, January 6, 2012 2:56 AM

DREAMTROVE

Riona,

You mentioned these once before, which is why I had seen them, it was one of your very early posts. You do have a lovely voice. (I didn't mention you being a hottie, because, well, it's not cool for a guy to say that

but now that you bring it up...)

Anyway, yes, they're lovely, and you do have a wonderful voice, and yes, you are, incidentally, a hottie, but I suspect you knew that.

ETA: Frem, you wanna know what's creepy? For some reason given the thread that gave me an image in my head of you singing "In just seven days I can make you a man..."

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Friday, January 6, 2012 3:38 AM

CANTTAKESKY

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
You can't??

It really is a gift.

Look at Julia Roberts. She can't do an accent to save her life.

The only accent I can do is Southern. Only cause I lived there 15 years.

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Friday, January 6, 2012 3:48 AM

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by canttakesky:
Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:
You can't??
It really is a gift.

Look at Julia Roberts. She can't do an accent to save her life.

Same goes for Kevin Costner. These poor folks must suffer from the same affliction.

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. - Someone.

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Friday, January 6, 2012 6:46 AM

BYTEMITE

I can only do accents in my head. They come out mangled when I put them through my mouth. But then most things do. I don't really talk much IRL.

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Friday, January 6, 2012 11:59 AM

Some accents come easier than other. An Australian accent is almost impossible to get right, especially by Americans. The only person I've heard do it really well was Meryl Streep who is gifted.

I can do some english and american accents easily, northern irish, and south african and new zealand - both pretty close to how I speak.

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Friday, January 6, 2012 12:50 PM

America loves a winner!

Weird thing is, or maybe not so weird, is how quickly I and others were able to pick up some Scottish accent, while briefly visiting there. Far easier to speak it if that's all you hear, I guess.

* as I look back up at the original subject, I just have to ask...how the heck did we end up here ?

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Friday, January 6, 2012 5:29 PM

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/health/young-obese-and-getting-weig
ht-loss-surgery.html

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

as I look back up at the original subject, I just have to ask...how the heck did we end up here ?

Riona being an Irish songbird, but do it really matter as long were all here and *squee* Together???~!

Hand sanitizer, anyone??

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 2:39 AM

CANTTAKESKY

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When her pediatrician, Dr. Senya Vayner, first mentioned weight-loss surgery, Ms. Gofman was 17, still living with her parents in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, her bedroom decorated with glow-in-the-dark stars because she was afraid of the dark.

There was no question, at 5-foot-1 and more than 250 pounds, she was overweight. But she resisted, saying she could diet.

“I’ll lose weight,” Ms. Gofman assured her doctor.

Dr. Vayner said, prophetically, “It’s not your fault, but you’re not going to be able to do it.”

Along with the obesity epidemic in America has come an explosion in weight-loss surgery, with about 220,000 operations a year — a sevenfold leap in a decade, according to industry figures — costing more than $6 billion a year. And the newest frontier is young patients like Ms. Gofman, who allowed The New York Times to follow her for a year as she had the operation and then embarked on a quest to lose weight, navigating challenges to her morale, her self-image and her relationships with family members and friends.

...

We soooo need to get out of the "quick fix" mentality. This makes me so sad.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 5:48 AM

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by canttakesky:

We soooo need to get out of the "quick fix" mentality. This makes me so sad.

Completely agree. Maybe the doc is cynical at her claims she'll lose the weight, or maybe that's how the Dr. makes his/ her living ( sorry, not familiar w/ the name "Senya" enough to know gender ), and is sadly taking part in steering this young girl to an procedure she doesn't really need, for the sake of making $ for the practice... I cannot say.

Not to go all Tom Cruise here, but telling folks they can't do something, when the absolutely can, is really pathetic. Sure, there may be some instances where surgery is helpful,but I'd say a huge % ( say like 99 ) should never have to go that route.

" Small moves, Ellie. Small moves. "

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 6:12 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Going to agree with rappy that people need to think for themselves. That starts with blocking out the commercials for those sugar-disguised-as-breakfast cereals and toaster-ready sugar tarts, and the enticements of stupid little toys (made in China) when you buy a "Happy Meal", and on to commercials for automobiles that you can't afford because they make you feel rugged. Then move on to AM radio and all of the MSM.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 6:19 AM

CANTTAKESKY

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Not to go all Tom Cruise here, but telling folks they can't do something, when the absolutely can, is really pathetic.

Right on, Rap.

We don't believe in ourselves anymore.

Surgery should be a last, last, last resort.

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I love, therefore I am.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 1:22 PM

I don't see there is anything in inherently wrong in running a marketing campaign on health issues. We get them all the time here, for smoking, road safety etc etc. Shock tactics have a place in all of this, as a bit of a wake up call to people, but they have limited life span as people eventually turn off. In this case, i do wonder whether using children in this case will actually increase the amount of bullying that they have to endure, but I guess it is worth a shot.

Obeisty is a serious health issue, and the health odds are stacked against you if you are obese as a child. I think a lot of people do make poor choices regarding eating and exercise, but I also see that we are a sedentary society in general.

still Europeans manage to be a lot slimmer than people in the US and Australia. I wonder why that is?

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 2:07 PM

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:

still Europeans manage to be a lot slimmer than people in the US and Australia. I wonder why that is?

Lot more places to go and are worth seeing. I would NEVER be home if I could get a rail pass on the weekends and step off in another COUNTRY in just a few hours. We went over the line into Kentucky this weekend, there was not one single store in the town we went to that we did not have in our own town, that wasn't exactly alike

Monoculture has sucked the fun right out of this country...

We have gotten year passes to EVERYTHING there is to get passes to just to have somewhere to go-zoo, museums, theme parks, bowling, we've done the mall until it makes me want to scream, we did one year visiting all the play parks in the region, we went to evey arcade place within 200 miles, now we do flea markets, but I don't have a clue what we're going to do when that gets boring. I hate taking classes and dealing too much with actual people... But I did sign my kid up for a one month latin dance aerobics class for Feb. We'll see how THAT goes...

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 2:36 PM

As someone who doesn't live in the US, I wouldn't have said it appears that you have either a monoculture or nothing much to do. I'd love to visit a lot of your country for its beautiful countryside, and diverse cities, history, I guess the grass is always greener.

PS You are from the US?

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 5:57 PM

If you chopped the US in the middle horizonally, and start on the middle of the east coast and drive west I live about 12 hours drive to the middle of nowhere...farmland as far as you can go. Snore.

Different places are always new and exciting for a variable amount of time as per the person, I suppose. I've been wanting to leave here ever since the first time I sunk my toes in warm ocean sand, and got knocked over by a clear blue-green wave...I fell in love with it, and since then everything else is just...inferior...

We had the chance to leave when we first got married, but my husbands family threw such a forked fit...and in retrospect I prolly wouldn't have been here for my dad when he died last year if we had, but I still regret not going...

So what do you not like the most where you are?

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 6:34 PM

Iowa?

The worst thing about where I live is the extremes of weather and the impact on us.

2009 we had some of the worst bushfires in recording history and had to evacuate about 4 times. Last year, the rains came and we've had heaps of storm damage to our house as well as feeling like we're in the middle of a swamp.

I'd like a period of gentle temperatures and regular mild rainfall.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 8:46 PM

Indiana.

The last few years have been bizarre here too. It started with a summer that didn't get hot then two years of RAIN and storms where everybody lost a roof or a tree or 20(we lost 3- out of 5!), now a winter that won't snow??

Mother Nature's got the PMS, I think...

Though I'm not at all minding the no snow thing!

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 9:30 PM

Beir bua agus beannacht

A Magon's a chara, Yeah I've been to Ireland, I loved it. My dad took me when I was 20 for an early, two years early, college graduation present and ever since I've been trying to figure out who I can go back with.

Raptor, yeah, that is my chosen accent, I can do others too but not forever like I can do Irish accents. My mom is funny, any accent she tries to do comes out wonky southern-gone-wrong-thing. I like that I look like River, I really respect and admire her so lookin like her is cool. I can't kill anyone with my brain, but I wonder if my brain will kill me someday unfortunately.

A DT a stor, yes it feels really good to hear you say that because men in real life don't fancy me, they never have, so online flirting is welcome. The only men who want me in real life are stalker types who discover me through my work at NAMI. I'm kind of scared right now because the one who keeps calling found our office and now knows what I look like and that scares me because he'll come back and what happens if he escalates? So having nice people online tell me I'm pretty feels really good and is welcome.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, January 9, 2012 5:02 AM

BYTEMITE

I take comfort in my utter homeliness and off-putting bad habits IRL. It allows me to avoid otherwise awkward social situations. I don't have to let people down because they don't look at me. It's kind of win-win.

Online flirting is kinda scary though.

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Monday, January 9, 2012 8:33 AM