Velociworld

Yeah. What you said.

Only thing we are doing is beginning to make children as self-conscious about there body as the models and TV stars has done to women over the course of time. Watch the eating disorders and suicide rates of teens - both sexes go up in the next 5-10 years.

Nothing wrong with a little weight on kids. But when parents let them turn into sumo wrestlers that ain't right.

What Dawn said. Don't I just get a ton of those kids on my unit all the goddamn time!

But, Kim, you're also right in your comment here. Nothing wrong with kids with a little meat on their bones...but not to those proportions.

kids parked in front of a tv or a computer for more than an hour is a crime. HOWEVER. before you go making assumptions about why anyone is obese, stop to think.

according to a researcher at wayne state, there are 9 distinct causes for obesity, most of which have not a damned thing to do with diet or exercise or the lack thereof.

in point of fact, there is a human adenovirus 36 which is highly contagious and oh yes, it DOES cause severe obesity. issue: there is no commercial blood test available for this virus and there is no treatment. diet and exercise will NOT work for this condition. the virus must be eradicated. (it causes low lipid levels and low cholesterol levels in its victims). 30% of the test subjects at wayne state who are obese have this virus.

second. there are two forms of excess cortisol (pituitary tumors and adrenal/exogenous tumors) which also cause obesity. again, diet and exercise do nothing. the cure is removing the tumor. while some folks have the classic purple or rose colored racing stripes on their torsos (stretch marks where the skin is breaking down), and thin legs/arms, many do not. there is treatment for this and most doctors don't bother to check for it.

third. lack of sufficient growth hormone will also cause obesity. again, got not a damned thing to do with diet and exercise. it's the result of pituitary damage or a pituitary tumor.

fourth. prolactima tumors also cause weight gain in both men and women. (and cause breast development in men along with milk or fluid flow from the nipples in BOTH men and women).

acromegaly. excess growth hormone.pituitary tumor. treatable. in addition to weight gain, it also distorts bones in the hands, feet and face as well as increasing height.

these are a few. and fluoride and chlorine cause a variety of tumors. i know alot of people who eat properly, who DID exercise, never stopped at a fast food place and yet doubled their body weight or more in the matter of a few months or a year.

........ i realize it's funny. but each of these conditions left untreated can cause major havoc in the human body. see a fat person? tell them to get a full endocrine panel run. don't wait for the doctors to suggest it. and one test may not uncover it because not all tumors pump excess or peter out consistently.

Thanks for the Public Service Announcement, cris. And the one half of one percent of obese kids who suffer from these exotica thank you as well. This still doesn't explain why I lactate when I see pretty women.