Comments for Childhood Obesity News http://childhoodobesitynews.com A resource for health professionals, parents, teachers, counselors & kids on the childhood obesity epidemic. Wed, 16 May 2012 03:02:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Killing the Childhood Obesity Messengers, Part 3 by Pat Hartman http://childhoodobesitynews.com/2012/03/12/killing-the-childhood-obesity-messengers-part-3/#comment-2812 Pat Hartman Wed, 16 May 2012 03:02:59 +0000 http://childhoodobesitynews.com/?p=7178#comment-2812 Dear Tina, Thank you for taking the time to write. I hope you will look at the reply from our content director Steve O'Keefe. Best regards, Pat Hartman Dear Tina,

Thank you for taking the time to write. I hope you will look at the reply from our content director Steve O’Keefe.

Best regards,
Pat Hartman

]]> Comment on They Said It, We Believed It — Teens and Food Addiction by Pat Hartman http://childhoodobesitynews.com/2010/12/03/they-said-it-we-believe-it-teens-and-food-addiction/#comment-2811 Pat Hartman Wed, 16 May 2012 03:00:59 +0000 http://childhoodobesitynews.com/?p=2262#comment-2811 Dear Jjay, Thank you for responding. Please don't give up, and do try to find a program that can help you. It is absolutely not true that you are destined to die overweight. You are facing one of the hardest situations for a teen, and I believe you can find it within yourself to look for a solution, make a plan, and follow through with it. You have many years ahead of you and I believe you can make them good years. Dear Jjay,

Thank you for responding. Please don’t give up, and do try to find a program that can help you. It is absolutely not true that you are destined to die overweight. You are facing one of the hardest situations for a teen, and I believe you can find it within yourself to look for a solution, make a plan, and follow through with it. You have many years ahead of you and I believe you can make them good years.

]]> Comment on They Said It, We Believed It — Teens and Food Addiction by Jjay http://childhoodobesitynews.com/2010/12/03/they-said-it-we-believe-it-teens-and-food-addiction/#comment-2810 Jjay Wed, 16 May 2012 01:43:19 +0000 http://childhoodobesitynews.com/?p=2262#comment-2810 I was born overweight and pretty sure i will die overweight. I never had a childhood I'm only 15 I've spent my days wondering how it feels to go out with friend nd looking ouy the window wondering how those kids who wernt fat felt like as they were walking in a group laughing having fun i got beat up home nd schol i fidnt have ftiends i spent recess talking to myself in a little tunnels fosum time my home will was shattered nd thru it all i ate nd now i can't stop I'm addicted and god is in heaven helpin g me but i need ppl to rrlate to to help mr also I was born overweight and pretty sure i will die overweight. I never had a childhood I’m only 15 I’ve spent my days wondering how it feels to go out with friend nd looking ouy the window wondering how those kids who wernt fat felt like as they were walking in a group laughing having fun i got beat up home nd schol i fidnt have ftiends i spent recess talking to myself in a little tunnels fosum time my home will was shattered nd thru it all i ate nd now i can’t stop I’m addicted and god is in heaven helpin g me but i need ppl to rrlate to to help mr also

]]> Comment on Killing the Childhood Obesity Messengers, Part 3 by Tina Bradford http://childhoodobesitynews.com/2012/03/12/killing-the-childhood-obesity-messengers-part-3/#comment-2809 Tina Bradford Tue, 15 May 2012 22:31:52 +0000 http://childhoodobesitynews.com/?p=7178#comment-2809 I am utterly disgusted at the way you have traumatized the child in this picture. The main thing you are doing with this ad campaign or whatever you choose to call it, is ensuring that overweight children will become closet eaters and begin to eat even more unhealthy foods. Yes, I am speaking from experience, every time someone made fun of my weight I ate 3 times as much junk food and hid the fact that I was doing so. I will never be a small person as a matter of fact I was born weighing a whopping 13.8 pounds. I am also now 5 feet 11 inches tall. My size to begin with truly was hereditary but negative people turned it into me having some sort of disease and not treating me fair because of my size....these negative and snide remarks about my weight and size turned me into a closet eater. Instead of being ridiculed as a child I believe that being accepted as the Good Lord made me would have done a lot more good and I would not have became what is now known as grotesquely overweight. What I am saying, I guess, is instead of ridiculing and demeaning remarks about a child's weight and/or size maybe we should all try a little kindness, acceptance and positive encouragement. As a loyal and loving member of C.A.A. I am very disappointed in the fact that you used their picture without their knowledge or permission. C.A.A. is about cats and cat lovers not about belittling or degrading a child about his or her weight. Next time, please be more considerate of the outcome of the things you post. As some children suffering from depression and obesity may find it offensive and take it as cyber bullying. If you were to use an authors words in a book as your own it would be considered plagiarism and I feel that taking someone else's photo without their knowledge or permission should be punishable by that same law. I am utterly disgusted at the way you have traumatized the child in this picture. The main thing you are doing with this ad campaign or whatever you choose to call it, is ensuring that overweight children will become closet eaters and begin to eat even more unhealthy foods. Yes, I am speaking from experience, every time someone made fun of my weight I ate 3 times as much junk food and hid the fact that I was doing so. I will never be a small person as a matter of fact I was born weighing a whopping 13.8 pounds. I am also now 5 feet 11 inches tall. My size to begin with truly was hereditary but negative people turned it into me having some sort of disease and not treating me fair because of my size….these negative and snide remarks about my weight and size turned me into a closet eater. Instead of being ridiculed as a child I believe that being accepted as the Good Lord made me would have done a lot more good and I would not have became what is now known as grotesquely overweight. What I am saying, I guess, is instead of ridiculing and demeaning remarks about a child’s weight and/or size maybe we should all try a little kindness, acceptance and positive encouragement. As a loyal and loving member of C.A.A. I am very disappointed in the fact that you used their picture without their knowledge or permission. C.A.A. is about cats and cat lovers not about belittling or degrading a child about his or her weight. Next time, please be more considerate of the outcome of the things you post. As some children suffering from depression and obesity may find it offensive and take it as cyber bullying. If you were to use an authors words in a book as your own it would be considered plagiarism and I feel that taking someone else’s photo without their knowledge or permission should be punishable by that same law.

]]> Comment on Killing the Childhood Obesity Messengers, Part 3 by steveokeefe http://childhoodobesitynews.com/2012/03/12/killing-the-childhood-obesity-messengers-part-3/#comment-2808 steveokeefe Tue, 15 May 2012 22:18:33 +0000 http://childhoodobesitynews.com/?p=7178#comment-2808 Peggy, Please see my earlier comments regarding our use of this image. Thanks for Your Feedback, STEVE O’KEEFE Content Director Childhood Obesity News Peggy,

Please see my earlier comments regarding our use of this image.

Thanks for Your Feedback,
STEVE O’KEEFE
Content Director
Childhood Obesity News

]]> Comment on Killing the Childhood Obesity Messengers, Part 3 by steveokeefe http://childhoodobesitynews.com/2012/03/12/killing-the-childhood-obesity-messengers-part-3/#comment-2807 steveokeefe Tue, 15 May 2012 22:16:55 +0000 http://childhoodobesitynews.com/?p=7178#comment-2807 Kris, Thanks for your feedback. We have strict rules about using images on the Childhood Obesity News Blog, and our use here is both appropriate and legal. Please see my earlier comments. With Thanks, STEVE O’KEEFE Content Director Childhood Obesity News Kris,

Thanks for your feedback. We have strict rules about using images on the Childhood Obesity News Blog, and our use here is both appropriate and legal. Please see my earlier comments.

With Thanks,
STEVE O’KEEFE
Content Director
Childhood Obesity News

]]> Comment on Killing the Childhood Obesity Messengers, Part 3 by steveokeefe http://childhoodobesitynews.com/2012/03/12/killing-the-childhood-obesity-messengers-part-3/#comment-2806 steveokeefe Tue, 15 May 2012 22:14:03 +0000 http://childhoodobesitynews.com/?p=7178#comment-2806 At first, I thought we had violated your copyright by using your image without your permission. That is totally against our rules, not to mention against the law. But there is an exception to that law which says that we may use images *without permission* when we are commenting on the image as part of a story. In other words, a critical analysis of the picture is protected free speech -- including using the picture to make our point. In the blog post, news editor Pat Hartman specifically discusses the cat image, and shows how soft-pedaling obesity is dangerous for children. She is using the image to make an important point. It is therefore protected free speech. While I sympathize that you did not create this image as a way to enter the debate on childhood obesity, the use of your image here is integral to Pat's post and is legal. The fact that we are having this discussion about the image is itself an extension of the story and illustrates why our society has to consider the messages it is sending about childhood obesity. With Thanks for Your Understanding, STEVE O'KEEFE Content Director Childhood Obesity News At first, I thought we had violated your copyright by using your image without your permission. That is totally against our rules, not to mention against the law. But there is an exception to that law which says that we may use images *without permission* when we are commenting on the image as part of a story. In other words, a critical analysis of the picture is protected free speech — including using the picture to make our point.

In the blog post, news editor Pat Hartman specifically discusses the cat image, and shows how soft-pedaling obesity is dangerous for children. She is using the image to make an important point. It is therefore protected free speech.

While I sympathize that you did not create this image as a way to enter the debate on childhood obesity, the use of your image here is integral to Pat’s post and is legal. The fact that we are having this discussion about the image is itself an extension of the story and illustrates why our society has to consider the messages it is sending about childhood obesity.

With Thanks for Your Understanding,
STEVE O’KEEFE
Content Director
Childhood Obesity News

]]> Comment on Killing the Childhood Obesity Messengers, Part 3 by Sally Bates http://childhoodobesitynews.com/2012/03/12/killing-the-childhood-obesity-messengers-part-3/#comment-2802 Sally Bates Sun, 13 May 2012 21:00:21 +0000 http://childhoodobesitynews.com/?p=7178#comment-2802 I agree with biological tendencies associated with obesity but nutrition & the more inactive lives our kids lead now have to be quite a bit of the problem! My mom was adamant about breakfast being cereal w/milk & orange juice - lunch was Campbell's soup & one sandwich - dinner was BROILED meat, 2 vegetables, fruit for dessert...no bread, no potatoes. My sister was a stress eater who would snack on chips, Fritos, etc she bought from the neighborhood store and an overweight child. I ate Mom's meals plus junk - twice as much as my sister did but I also was a tomboy who was ALWAYS outside playing, riding my bike & walking EVERYWHERE with my friends and skinny as a rail. The only exercise my sister did was walking to the neighborhood store. Even after my friends & I got our drivers' licenses, we'd ride our bikes or walk because we preferred that to driving. As for 'reducing childhood stress' now -- everyone is always going to have stress!! Why not teach kids how to handle it better and what is touted as being the best stress reliever?? EXERCISE!!!!! In spite of my tomboy ways, I was always last to be picked for gym class teams due to being a very shy child with very poor eyesight. It was embarassing but I lived through it. I whole heartedly am against candy & food as reward & did not practice it with my daughters. Partly because of not teaching them bad habits but mostly because I didn't want them to rot their teeth with a lot of candy. What's easier to make after a long day at work? Junk food picked up on the way home or from the freezer, heated up in the microwave. Microwaving fresh meat & fresh / frozen veggies still causes hot & cold spots so cooking these the old fashion way is better but takes a whole lot more time. Kids like easier things, too, so even if they love broccoli, they're going to open a bag of chips or nuke pizza rolls rather than cooking veggies. It could very well be they're not hooked on veggies due to the fact they're rarely had them. Btw, the government can tax & restrict whatever they want but until society changes, I doubt that it's not going to help any. Several reputable news programs have shown that being overweight is the only socially acceptable discrimination. Smokers have it tough, too, but they can pretty much hide their smoking habit and they don't lose out on employment as readily. We have to stop making fun of, shaming & belittling obese individuals. I agree with biological tendencies associated with obesity but nutrition & the more inactive lives our kids lead now have to be quite a bit of the problem! My mom was adamant about breakfast being cereal w/milk & orange juice – lunch was Campbell’s soup & one sandwich – dinner was BROILED meat, 2 vegetables, fruit for dessert…no bread, no potatoes. My sister was a stress eater who would snack on chips, Fritos, etc she bought from the neighborhood store and an overweight child. I ate Mom’s meals plus junk – twice as much as my sister did but I also was a tomboy who was ALWAYS outside playing, riding my bike & walking EVERYWHERE with my friends and skinny as a rail. The only exercise my sister did was walking to the neighborhood store. Even after my friends & I got our drivers’ licenses, we’d ride our bikes or walk because we preferred that to driving.

As for ‘reducing childhood stress’ now — everyone is always going to have stress!! Why not teach kids how to handle it better and what is touted as being the best stress reliever?? EXERCISE!!!!! In spite of my tomboy ways, I was always last to be picked for gym class teams due to being a very shy child with very poor eyesight. It was embarassing but I lived through it.

I whole heartedly am against candy & food as reward & did not practice it with my daughters. Partly because of not teaching them bad habits but mostly because I didn’t want them to rot their teeth with a lot of candy.

What’s easier to make after a long day at work? Junk food picked up on the way home or from the freezer, heated up in the microwave. Microwaving fresh meat & fresh / frozen veggies still causes hot & cold spots so cooking these the old fashion way is better but takes a whole lot more time. Kids like easier things, too, so even if they love broccoli, they’re going to open a bag of chips or nuke pizza rolls rather than cooking veggies. It could very well be they’re not hooked on veggies due to the fact they’re rarely had them.

Btw, the government can tax & restrict whatever they want but until society changes, I doubt that it’s not going to help any. Several reputable news programs have shown that being overweight is the only socially acceptable discrimination. Smokers have it tough, too, but they can pretty much hide their smoking habit and they don’t lose out on employment as readily. We have to stop making fun of, shaming & belittling obese individuals.

]]> Comment on Killing the Childhood Obesity Messengers, Part 3 by Peggy http://childhoodobesitynews.com/2012/03/12/killing-the-childhood-obesity-messengers-part-3/#comment-2801 Peggy Sun, 13 May 2012 19:35:33 +0000 http://childhoodobesitynews.com/?p=7178#comment-2801 SHAME ON YOU! You took a sweet picture of a Mama cat and her baby, a breed of cat by the way that IS big and twisted it to fit your obscene needs. YOU HAD NO PERMISSION! You need to take this down. The woman who made this picture had no intention of having it used WITHOUT HER PERMISSION by you this way. SHAME ON YOU. Now as to the your whole rant; you obviously do not have a clue. Shaming people does not work. Supporting them does. Any attempt to SHAME a fat person into loosing weight will never work and will backfire. Shaming people in general is not a usable mechanism for change. It is counter productive. So I absolutely agree, shame the problem NOT THE PERSON, which is in this case are children. Children are so psychologically vulnerable to begin with and you would THROW THAT onto their plate TOO? Crap like that will drive them to eat NOT to exercise. Get a clue. Support the children, don't shame them. SHAME ON YOU! You took a sweet picture of a Mama cat and her baby, a breed of cat by the way that IS big and twisted it to fit your obscene needs. YOU HAD NO PERMISSION! You need to take this down. The woman who made this picture had no intention of having it used WITHOUT HER PERMISSION by you this way. SHAME ON YOU.

Now as to the your whole rant; you obviously do not have a clue. Shaming people does not work. Supporting them does. Any attempt to SHAME a fat person into loosing weight will never work and will backfire. Shaming people in general is not a usable mechanism for change. It is counter productive. So I absolutely agree, shame the problem NOT THE PERSON, which is in this case are children. Children are so psychologically vulnerable to begin with and you would THROW THAT onto their plate TOO? Crap like that will drive them to eat NOT to exercise. Get a clue. Support the children, don’t shame them.

]]> Comment on Killing the Childhood Obesity Messengers, Part 3 by Cat Addicts Anony-mouse http://childhoodobesitynews.com/2012/03/12/killing-the-childhood-obesity-messengers-part-3/#comment-2800 Cat Addicts Anony-mouse Sun, 13 May 2012 19:33:56 +0000 http://childhoodobesitynews.com/?p=7178#comment-2800 *100 percent** whoops *100 percent** whoops

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