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Did y’all see this?
FARGO, ND (KVLY/KXJB/CNN) – A woman has decided to take childhood obesity into her own hands with a letter she plans to hand out to children she said she believes are “moderately obese.”
“I just want to send a message to the parents of kids that are really overweight,” a woman only known as Cheryl said Tuesday. “I think it’s just really irresponsible of parents to send them out looking for free candy just because all the other kids are doing it.”
She emailed the letter after calling in this morning to radio station Y94.
“They were chatting today and got a call from Cheryl out of the blue who really wanted to voice her opinion about obesity, and that it really takes an entire community to solve the obesity challenge,” JT, Y94 program and music director, said.
“I’m contributing to their health problems, and really, their kids are everybody’s kids,” Cheryl said. “It’s a whole village.” …
Meanwhile, some in the village of Fargo are likely planning to take 24-roll packages of Charmin to this lady’s house tomorrow night…
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Y’all know me — I’m very much into the whole communitarian “it takes a village” thing — but this lady’s taking it just a bit far…
The video report doesn’t actually show “Cheryl;” you just hear her voice.
So since this is Fargo, I’m picturing Frances McDormand…
She’s concerned about obesity, but she’s not concerned about diabetes, dental health or any number of other health issues related to sugar and high fructose corn syrup? If she wants to educate the village, there must be more effective ways of doing it. Does she think the kids and their parents don’t know they’re overweight?
I was in Lexington, North Carolina for the Lexington Barbecue Festival last weekend. There were several hell-and-damnation preachers on the street corners yelling at the crowds looking at crafts and munching on Lexington-style barbecue. Sure, a lot of people heard them, but how many listened? This woman’s approach will be even less effective.
Fat shaming is counterproductive. Fat shaming kids is appalling.
Fat shaming is passe. The new thing is thin shaming.
As one who was a skinny little kid, I felt we were the ones looked down upon, not the fat kids.
When you’re a kid, you always want to be bigger than you are.
I made up for being little by being a wiseacre…
No, I did not ever want to be bigger than I was. At 5’7 1/2″ in the second grade…..
I have absolutely no worry, past, future or present over being thin-shamed.
If you like your Halloween candy, you can keep your Halloween candy.
Hey, wait. Your candy bag plan has too many pieces of chocolate candy.
/snatch
CandyCare.
No, your candy plan does not provide adequate candy.
Or we could do one with houses:
BREAKING: Due to the longstanding problem of homelessness in America, President Obama has just signed a law requiring all Americans to purchase a house. People who have expensive homes will be required to pay into a fund to assist lower-income people purchase houses. However, due to certain government standards on what specifications “homes” must have, millions of people are being forced to leave their homes and purchase adequate homes to meet the new government standard.
This is fun.
Well, to the extent homeless shelters are like emergency rooms, your analogy holds, except for the markup in ER medical care vs. shelter care
Media is now saying it might be a hoax.