UK: Lose weight, or we will take your children, page 1

typical "big brother" move, me thinks. see something "I" think is a problem and "deal with it or else". you should have grabbed the pic from the artical as well. shown in the picture is a large couple and a large little girl. actualy a prety common site in some areas.

it could be that there is some bit of genetics in play as all three ar large ( since we don't have any family history to go on). if so than i guess that anyone labled "fat" should not be alowed to have kids, if we want a "normal society".

it could also be that the parrents work in jobs with minimul movement, perhaps programmers or transit or truck drivers. i KNOW that this type of work does tend to make people fat, my own father was decently skinny right up untill he started driveing a bus for a liveing. i know he was constintly dieting and trying to loose weight but never happened (just a pound or two here or there that would come right back). we ate as healthy as we could on a rather thin income where in all honesty there were a few times when there was not enough and my sibbling and i would get his share. but yet he is fat.

as for the litte girl well isnt she in school (in britton the new land of healty school lunches? what about gym class and recess?. other then that school consists of sitting still in your seat or getting in trubble for 6 or so hours a day. this is NOT a "healthy active lifestyle". (and to think they want school to go year round so not even summers to get exersize).is she in a daycare program after school wheresitting quietly is a trait loved by overloaded staff dealing with other active kids. is she a "latch key kid" not alowed to leave the appartment untill the parrents get home in time to make supper. other than in school many kids DON"T have the opertunity to realy exercise outside of school. i have one neibour who has grown up across the courtyard from me. he is now 10 and gets in trubble when he came out after seeing me come home to talk, he is lonly i think and i know he dosnt do much after school but watch tv and play vidio games. what exersize is he realy getting?

i know when i get home from work i am dead, i am tiered and worn out as are most people today even if they have "just been sitting all day", does not matter what you do you will be tired and sore after a day of work. with me i even have chronic back pain that i have to live with dureing the day so i just stay in bed mostly after work. so i wouldn't have time to go be active with my kids. (i'm just lucky tht i work in a phisicaly active job so i am skinny

so i don't "need" exercuise as much). so dos't look like i would be able to do much playing with a kid after work, and most people are now so scared of the world that kids don't play outside for fear of kidnapping and most parrents are too busy after work cooking cleaning ect. to go outside and watch.

the problem with things like governments "trying" to help everyone is that they tend only to see key points in whatever they "think" is wrong and needs to be fixed. they hit key points while totaly ignoreing ALL the facters in the perceved problem. from this story as an example most would think a few things as to why these children are fat. parrents overfeed them. kids are fed unhealthy foods, (well when "good food" is a lot more expensive than the junk what do you expect, example 2l coke $0.99, 2l milk $3.50:lol

yup lets blaim the parrents for that one. and lack of exercise, when in reality there is a huge ball of facters that have to be considdered. how is takeing the kids away going to help is beond me since instuitutions are typicaly broke and also feeding not so healthy stuff anyway. but then again hey lets just make kids work at phisicaly demanding jobs would solve many problems at once wouldn't it? i mean there were few fat kids when the were work houses were there?