Fat Kids, Food Taxes, and General Perception

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Story on Over Weight Kids

Fat Tax in the Future

Sum Up


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Any "fat tax" might be seen as an attack on personal freedom and would weigh more heavily on poorer families, the study warned.



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Yup Yup

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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has previously rejected the idea as an example of the "nanny state" that might push people away from healthy food.



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Too Bad the Voice of Reason was not in New York and California



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Youngsters who report teasing, rejection, bullying and other types of abuse because of their weight are two to three times more likely to report suicidal thoughts

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Now it's ok for a group of kids to mentally and psysically torture some poor kid to the point where he want's to kill himself.

Teachers dont' help, Parents tell you to ignore the bully, The problem get's worse and worse until the poor kid want's to kill himself.

1) Why is this accepted
2) Fat kid can't fight back because it's usually 5 to 1 on word of mouth to what happens (bullys crew) If he fights back he's usually the one who get's in trouble and suspended.
3) Fat kid fights back and wins his family is open to lawsuit by bullys family for bully's replacement teeth.

What's that leave us with just a crappy situation
1) Fat kid see's no way out and commits suicide
2) Fat kid wigs out and shoots a bunch of random people or the bullys

That's a pretty crappy outlook all because parents and teachers cannot control their kids. Maybe it's time to stop time outs and butt slaps and go back to putting kids through walls for tormenting someone else.

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"Perhaps the most surprising source of weight stigma toward youths is parents," the report says.



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Amazing the parents calling their kids fat while stocking the house with nothing but junk food.

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Teachers did not stand up for me when I was teased," McAfee said.

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100 % true sometimes they just stand and watch this stuff because they are afraid of getting fired. Well it's bull I say. When I was in school teacher could hit or at least call the prinicpal who would HIT. Have we become such a horrible society that kids can get tortured at school while our educators stand and watch ?????

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"Weight-based discrimination is as important a problem as racial discrimination or discrimination against children with physical disabilities," the report concludes. "Remedying it needs to be taken equally seriously..."



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I actually disagree with this somewhat. You can't change your skin color or your race or the fact that you were born with no legs.

While you should not be subject to public humiliation and torture at school or work because of your weight. YOu should not be entilted to free seats on a plane or be able to sue a movie theather because the seats are too small.

You can change your bodyweight. Weight Discrimination and Racial discrimination should not be lumped togethor.