If by "Alabama" you meant "Arkansas," sure.

Chase the fat children with a sword, kill those that are not quick enough.

One cannot legislate health. Duh.

Richard Pye: Chase the fat children with a sword, kill those that are not quick enough.

You only have to be faster than the slowest one.

Arkansas and Alabama are quite different states.

But it's hard to be skinny when the food tastes so good,

Fatty cousin sister-momma done raised my kid to be fat, an' I doan like it one bit.

This is part of the price/benefit of living in a 'free' society. You have to let parents do their jorbs -- even if they suck arse at it.

Is it a surprise to anyone that the government fails at everything it does?

Would you like an apple with that?

Would you like an apple with that?

"Southern food will kill a man as sure as a sword."

Need to change that there headline to read Arkansas, holmes.

We're losing the war on obesity, the war on drugs, the war on poverty, and the war on terror.

I think it's about time we declare a war on wars on abstract concepts.

Arnold T Pants: Is it a surprise to anyone that the government fails at everything it does?


are you referring to the galactic government or the chackahogee high student government?

Good food= Fat people
/Craving a Johnnies Italian beef

I work in the weight loss industry, so I'm getting a kick out of these...

We're helping in Mobile.. opening a few other AL locations soon. I know or mobile location is helping a ton of folks (no pun intended.. well.. sort of)

Where's gothapotomus?

mehtajr [TotalFark] Quote 2008-09-28 01:45:02 PM
If by "Alabama" you meant "Arkansas," sure.


Is it just me or have there been more than normal the amount of embarrassing mistakes by submitters lately? I mean it's almost as if some people don't even read the stories first.

Could it be?????

Naaaah


As for the actual story, I think this is just more evidence that stupid is as stupid does, and no amount of money or legislation can force someone to make good choices. That's worth remembering the next time some politician comes with some bright idea on how to spend more of the tax payers money. Too late for this bailout plan of course.

Came for the Family Guy references, leaving disappointed.

Eat less. Exercise more.

This isn't rocket science, people!

Just as in 2003 when this sizeable program began, about 20% of Arkansas young people were classified as 'overweight', 17% as 'at risk', 60% as 'healthy weight', and 1.8% as 'underweight' (≤5th percentile on growth curves).

20+60+17+1.8=98.8

1.2% are......dead?

Article was grasping for straws trying making it look like the effort was not merely ineffective but a regression. The spinning here is just as the government's spinning. Probably the work of some overzealous libertarians with a chip on their shoulder.

the childhood obesity in this case was caused by proximity to the scalar wave generators (weather control) located in the underground alien bases in arkansas.

/Hotlinked like fries in hot vat
//They really hurt bad
///And so do skin-grafts.

komododave17: Just as in 2003 when this sizeable program began, about 20% of Arkansas young people were classified as 'overweight', 17% as 'at risk', 60% as 'healthy weight', and 1.8% as 'underweight' (≤5th percentile on growth curves).

20+60+17+1.8=98.8

1.2% are......dead?

They got so fat that they now exist only as a black hole.

drjekel_mrhyde: Good food= Fat people

Explain Briton.

lewismarktwo: drjekel_mrhyde: Good food= Fat people

Explain Briton.

Junkfood Science is the most worthless recource on the internet. It is the one place that "fat acceptance" points to when they whine about how it isn't their fault that they are obese, and would be fat no matter what their lifestlye was like.

Single White Male: We're losing the war on obesity, the war on drugs, the war on poverty, and the war on terror.

I think it's about time we declare a war on wars on abstract concepts.

Why, so we can lose that one too? You're just a glutton for punishment, aren't you.

I really don't understand the childhood obesity thing until I remember that parents can barely control their own habits much less their child's. I wonder how far the effects of having severely obese children will reach.

Wait, so you're saying that the government can't pass laws and spend money to successfully fix society's ills? Really? Is there a political philosophy, perhaps one popular in Southern States like Alabama, which would have predicted this?

lewismarktwo: drjekel_mrhyde: Good food= Fat people

Explain Briton.

U.S., U.K.,and Canada are experiancing obesity epedimic while the rest of the world isn't. There is only one explaination for this. Speaking English causes obesity.

Cue the global warming/pirates chart.

Oldiron_79: lewismarktwo: drjekel_mrhyde: Good food= Fat people

Explain Briton.

U.S., U.K.,and Canada are experiancing obesity epedimic while the rest of the world isn't. There is only one explaination for this. Speaking English causes obesity.

Cue the global warming/pirates chart.

It is a delicious language...

jvl: Wait, so you're saying that the government can't pass laws and spend money to successfully fix society's ills? Really? Is there a political philosophy, perhaps one popular in Southern States like Alabama, which would have predicted this?

No, there isn't. In Alabama, the *only* political philosophy is that it's perfectly fine to force people to live the way you think they should and believe what you believe.

There are some different parties that disagree as to where and how to interfere first, and who gets to interfere, but that's about it.

xuanzhiyouxuan: the childhood obesity in this case was caused by proximity to the scalar wave generators (weather control) located in the underground alien bases in arkansas.

Thats secret!
/NEVER to be talked about.
//.DUH

xuanzhiyouxuan: lewismarktwo: drjekel_mrhyde: Good food= Fat people

Explain Briton.

WTF is that

Arnold T Pants: Is it a surprise to anyone that the government fails at everything it does?

To be fair, the government is doing it's best. Bread lines and soup kitchens should go a long way towards curing childhood obesity.

Alabama recently announced it would start charging state employees a surcharge on health insurance if they were overweight..just like they do smokers.

Arnold T Pants: Is it a surprise to anyone that the government fails at everything it does?

You mean as opposed to the shining example of efficiency and good practices that private enterprise Wall Street firms have shown this year?

drjekel_mrhyde: xuanzhiyouxuan: lewismarktwo: drjekel_mrhyde: Good food= Fat people

Explain Briton.

WTF is that

vegemite soldiers. Toast covered in butter and vegemite cut into strips and dipped in soft boiled egg

Steve Zodiac: Arnold T Pants: Is it a surprise to anyone that the government fails at everything it does?

You mean as opposed to the shining example of efficiency and good practices that private enterprise Wall Street firms have shown this year?

Come on, you're trying to use reason with an anti-government type.

You have this notion about stuff like logic, and principles, and consistent standards applied across situations and groups. They don't get that stuff--they think you're just trying to make things complicated. Just bait them; it's more fun.

I'd like to have a little time to read the report itself. Sandy Szwarc is in the tank for junk food makers, and a goddess in the fat acceptance movement, so she has 2 reasons to shill the idea that "you can't do anything about being fat."

Also, it might take more than 5 years to turn stuff around. Or a different approach.

xuanzhiyouxuan:

Alright, like other people I'm intrigued -- what are we looking at? Toast with jam dunked into a soft boiled egg? Toast with caviar? Or maybe a pork crackling?

'Tho I do get the old joke -- if you want to eat well in Britain, have breakfast 3x a day

Let's do a little research on the author of this blog.

A general overview of the author can be found here: Sandy Szwarc (new window)

Information on the group she writes for can be found here: Competitive Enterprise Institute (new window)

In short, it's another blog by a free market solves all, business will do the right thing shill author.

/ Not that convoluted government regulations work any better
// There is at least a third alternative

I find this disturbing in so many ways.

Everyone is aware of the problem of childhood obesity. A state puts together a comprehensive plan to combat it.

Five years later - no results.

If a plan like this doesn't work, what will?

xuanzhiyouxuan: drjekel_mrhyde: xuanzhiyouxuan: lewismarktwo: drjekel_mrhyde: Good food= Fat people

Explain Briton.

WTF is that

vegemite soldiers. Toast covered in butter and vegemite cut into strips and dipped in soft boiled egg

I now want to die

Oh, vegemite, so then, it's healthy, right?

/Yeah, I read about the butter
//Yeah, I saw the egg
///I eat eggs maybe once every 3 weeks, max

As someone who recently lost 12 pounds, and is keeping on. I demand kudo's. Either the granola bar type or the congratulatory.

/kicks, etc...

"-----------you lied to us about marijuana, we didn't believe you when you told the truth about twinkies--------"

Obligatory?

libbynomore2
I mean it's almost as if some people don't even read the stories first.

You gotta admit, that was one unnecessarily lengthy article. They should have contained a link to the Cliff Notes.

As for the actual story, I think this is just more evidence that stupid is as stupid does, and no amount of money or legislation can force someone to make good choices.

Exactly . . . you can't fix stupid. This would make a good summary of the article.

The problem can't all be blamed on junk food. I think a bigger part of the issue is the lack of exercise kids get these days. When I was a kid in the '70s and early '80s we spent almost all of our free time outside, running around the neighborhood, because that's pretty much all there was to do. We didn't realize it at the time, but we were getting several hours of moderate exercise a week.

These days television, computers, and video games compel kids to stay inside and sit sedentary.