Comments on: Fat city

By: Mom of Four

Mom of Four — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:59:28 +0000

Has it escaped you how many parents already outlived their adult children, (or visit them in nursing homes after they stroked, lost limbs to diabetes, developed kidney failure as a consequence of it, or can’t breath under their own weight)? Get a clue, the incidence of juvenile diabetes has exploded along with overweight children whom statistics say as many as 33% in the United States are overweight.

By: Crimson Wife

Crimson Wife — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:10:07 +0000

I agree with Ohio that this woman clearly has some sort of eating disorder. I worry about the effect on her daughter growing up in that type of environment

By: Ohio

Ohio — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:45:33 +0000

It’s clear from the article that this woman is anorexic and is trying to get the world to be anorexic too. Anorexics have panic attacks when they even think about eating. She wants everybody to panic about food.

Just reduce portions sizes, everybody. Keep your Cheetos but don’t eat the whole bag at once. 1-2 ounces will do with TV. And don’t wipe those orange fingers on your shirt!

By: thaprof

thaprof — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:33:51 +0000

NoMo KooKee MeMe

By: Quincy

Quincy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:23:42 +0000

Sadly, she’s probably doing more to harm harm her kids with her extremism about food than the food would have done in the first place.

By: John Drake

John Drake — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:10:01 +0000

Oh, for God’s sake. Lighten up, those of you who think this is the cause of obesity and health problems in the United States.

These sorts of parties were common when I was a kid, and all of my cohort grew up to be happy and healthy.

Goddamned social engineering crap.

By: NDC

NDC — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:36:36 +0000

Margo,

How much of the school’s time should this one mom consume before it really makes sense for her to go elsewhere?

Certainly she’s welcome to bring her educational concerns forward, but at some point, especially related to a non-academic issue, she seems to have become a never-ending time suck.

She doesn’t get to forcibly enlist the school in her campaign by pressuring and haranguing staff at the school level. She seems unwilling to accept that. It makes sense to me to terminate this bad relationship. If she honestly believes what she’s asserted about the foods offered to her children, the health and safety transfer makes sense. If she doesn’t, she needs to consider different methods.

By: Bart

Bart — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:15:36 +0000

> I wonder how old “MeMe” was when she decided to spell her name that way?

I think that style of capitalization became common after the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. She would have been around 15 at the time.

By: Parent2

Parent2 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:02:11 +0000

The article in the Guardian makes clear that this mother has issues about control and food (read to the end):http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/may/24/meme-roth-obesity-nutrition.

There are parents who try to control their children’s environment even in the classroom. There are limits to what it is reasonable to expect.

To balance that, I will admit that without a firm school policy about sweets, modern children are given far too many sweets in school. Meme seems to be an extremist, who will take sensible ideas too far. The trouble is, when proponents are rude and aggravating, and strike others as potentially unbalanced, their efforts can discredit even sensible ideas.

By: Ragnarok

Ragnarok — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:07:31 +0000

“Pull together a committee of concerned parents. Include the school nurse and phys ed teacher.”

Ain’t nothin’ so stupid that a committee cain’t make it worse, specially if you make sure they have PowerPoint.