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In The Know: Should We Be Shaming Obese Children More?

A very poignant and insightful discussion…

• I think it can be a fun for the whole family. Get everybody involved. Show them a slide of an overweight man searching for his penis in the folds of skin that surround it.
• I don't know that the shaming thing really works that well. I've been constantly berating my handicapped son for years to no avail. He still can't walk.
• Running into a room, slamming a door, and crying your eyes out burns a lot of calories. I think the media really needs to step up to the plate in getting across how wonderful it is to be thin for children. They always show the corpulent person as the sassy, wise-cracking, funny sidekick.
• We need to stop glamorizing the fat and making fat people seem ultra-confident like that damn Camryn Manheim. That is a lie. That is a lie.
• We shouldn't even have characters on TV that are fat that have dates.
• You introduce a fat character, have that fat character die of heart disease before the season is over.
• We see public service commercials for orphans over seas that are always thin. They have no food. The message of those commercials is often that, "These kids are starving, let's help them." Why shouldn't it be, "These kids are starving, they're having fun."