Obesity Surgery triples amoung U.S. teens

[vraiblonde]

Heck, if they live in California the state will pay for it!

Actually, that wouldn't surprise me at all.

 

[Pete]

I had steamed lobster and crab legs with asparagus last night for dinner.

Where?

 

[mAlice]

Heck, if they live in California the state will pay for it! They were paying for sex change operations in San Francisco.

They who? And stop being evasive and answer my question.

 

[Bustem' Down]

Heck, if they live in California the state will pay for it! They were paying for sex change operations in San Francisco.

Post your sources, I can make up "facts" too.

 

[RoseRed]

Where?

At home.

 

[SamSpade]

When was the last time you saw a fat kid with skinny parents?

About half the time, if you define "skinny" as meaning, not fat. (I tend to think skinny as in Kate Moss or Calista Flockhart). And I would have been one of them, as a kid, as would my youngest brother in law. And I had my periods of being thinner. Long sections of my childhood, I just had my siblings around, and I sucked at sports, so exercise was riding my bike or swimming at the pool down the street. I'd strongly attribute my own childhood pudginess to lack of activity. There were mitigating factors - some of the schools we went to, sports meant get your butt POUNDED by bullies, and one school, fist fights every morning.

I have a grown cousin now - both her parents were slim, as were her three brothers. I have no idea why she was chubby as a kid.

I think that it IS common for fat parents to raise fat kids, due to bad habits. But that's not 100% of the demographic.

BTW - do they STILL do the President's fitness award thing in schools anymore? We did those every year. I remember tough things in gym class - climbing ropes, climbing peg boards, calisthenics. Do they not do that anymore?

 

[Bustem' Down]

BTW - do they STILL do the President's fitness award thing in schools anymore? We did those every year. I remember tough things in gym class - climbing ropes, climbing peg boards, calisthenics. Do they not do that anymore?

I think they have Madden 07, Grand Theft Auto, and speed text messaging now.

 

[ylexot]

BTW - do they STILL do the President's fitness award thing in schools anymore? We did those every year. I remember tough things in gym class - climbing ropes, climbing peg boards, calisthenics. Do they not do that anymore?

I think they did away with that when the President (Clinton) couldn't meet the minimum standards

 

[SamSpade]

I think they have Madden 07, Grand Theft Auto, and speed text messaging now.

Seriously - no PE classes for kids anymore?

 

[Bustem' Down]

Seriously - no PE classes for kids anymore?

Not sure, haven't been in school for 10 years. PE back then in high school was a joke anyways. I only had to take it for a year and a half and we didn't really do much.

 

[SamSpade]

Not sure, haven't been in school for 10 years. PE back then in high school was a joke anyways. I only had to take it for a year and a half and we didn't really do much.

We had mandatory PE - in COLLEGE. Of course, it could be "skating" or "bowling" or some other PE activity, but you still had to do it.

 

[Katie]

That is the point I made. There is no manadatory PE anymore. They don't have the funding anymore. I hated gym class, but it got me moving for an hour a day.

Instead of playing ball or whatever during recess(do they even have recess anymore) they are playing on the computer or whatevre.

 

[Gwydion]

PE got removed due to the ridiculous lawsuits of "The gym teacher that has been working at that same elementary school for the past 15 years touched my little girls butt when he was lifting her fat ass up to the monkey bars, so I am suing for $10M."

 

[SamSpade]

That is the point I made. There is no manadatory PE anymore. They don't have the funding anymore. I hated gym class, but it got me moving for an hour a day.

Instead of playing ball or whatever during recess(do they even have recess anymore) they are playing on the computer or whatevre.

I didn't realize that. There is no way in hell I'm sending my kid to a school where they let him play around on a computer at recess. The whole reason we want him in public school at ALL is to interact with other kids and learn to play and socialize with them.

Thankfully, that's still a ways off.

 

[Bustem' Down]

We had mandatory PE - in COLLEGE. Of course, it could be "skating" or "bowling" or some other PE activity, but you still had to do it.

Oh yeah, I took racketball, but even then, I believe you only needed 3 credit hours of PE for your entire time.

 

[Gwydion]

I took sailing.

 

[Katie]

I didn't realize that. There is no way in hell I'm sending my kid to a school where they let him play around on a computer at recess. The whole reason we want him in public school at ALL is to interact with other kids and learn to play and socialize with them.

Thankfully, that's still a ways off.

It isn't all schools but it is something to think about.

 

[scottrobts]

PE got removed due to the ridiculous lawsuits of "The gym teacher that has been working at that same elementary school for the past 15 years touched my little girls butt when he was lifting her fat ass up to the monkey bars, so I am suing for $10M."

actually it got removed because there wasn't enough time in the day to teach all the crap that paren'ts should be teaching their kids anyways.