take this poll..... i need it for journalism...

Hello take my poll please.

Do you think that the number of obese adolescents has increased over the years?

Also, can a few of you please add some comments too? And leave your first name and year you'll be graduating high school.

So for me, I'd say "Yes. People are fat ass fucks. - Shelly '08"

 

I blame technology - Kirk '09

 

not in high school but i see a trend towards more peop;e having body image issues & eatting disorders & comments like fat ass fucks complicating the situation anorexia & bulemia are the only diseases ever caused by words..think about that

 

Yes. I blame Oliver Hardy, terrible choice of role model - Oz/ages ago

 

I think that when a child is born grossly overweight, or when a kid is 50+ pounds overweight and isn't even a teenager yet, the parents should be investegated for child abuse. I see that so much, its fucking disgusting and I blame the parents entirely.

 

born grossly overweight? how does that happen i kinda agree with ya though, if you see like a 150 pound 9 year old, there's sumpin wrong.

 

it's so sad though..my neighbor jot's little sister died last weekend..
it was pretty much a direct result of her being overweight..she was 8 and she had diabetes, but nobody knew until everything got really bad..

i can see where you're coming from..but seeing how her parents were..i don't know....they definitely wouldn't be in that category..so idunno how that would work out..

i have a crappy way with words..
hah..
=/

 

Usually when the parents are fat, they pass it onto the kid.. it happened with my brother. He's 11 and weighs 170 pounds, I'm 17 and weigh about 135...

 

Agreed 100%.
My own body image issues were really unresolved spiritual ones. For years my family and their churches have been drilling into me that sex is a private guilty portion of the human. I grew up hiding entire ambitions and feelings in myself. By the time high school came around, I was way deep in depression.
I suppose I blamed my lack of familiarity with love and sex on my outward appearance as this was the only fault I could find that others could see. The medications I was put on at the time caused me to go from underweight to mildly obese.
At 16 I chose to stop the medications regardless of my health. I started to loose weight pretty fast. Went through an eating disorder, regained twenty of the forty pounds I lost.
And now I'm just coming out of it all.
I finally learned/experienced sex. I finally learned/experienced love.
My obesity for 10+ years and subsequent eating disorder was caused by doctors fixing problems fed by a dogmatic patriarchal religion.
So in the end, it was words that caused it, like you said, soaring eagle.

 

by the way... my name's Chuck and I graduated in '05 and have to do it again, which should happen in late '05/early '06.

 

haha.. my parents are both fat, and im like 13 pounds underweight

 

this is my freind ana even in these pictures she felt 20 ponds over weight
the myth of the ideal weight kills more people then being 50 pounds over weight ever did
at her worse she weighed 68 pounds
at her best 120..at 120 she wascalled fat by mean & ignorant kids..shes in recovery now..but those wordswill be with her for life
when u say someoneds disgusting for being a few pounds heavy, this is the result..i want uu all to look at thes & realize just how sick society is that bases your self worth on your waist size..threads like this might drive any one of the readers to go to these extremes


this is what weight obsession looks like
noew some of u girls might even think woew shes so skinny i wish i could be like her..& thats not my intention here..
but if u think that read this thread
http://hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106818
& you can pm me, & i can tell you the hell she went through every single day, just cause idiots called her fat at 115 pounds


thats her when she was suposedly overweight
who the hell are you to judge how someone elses body should be!!!!!!!!!!!!
shame on you

(forgive me..i see this illness every day, 1/2 the girls i know onder 20 suffer from it & yet you dare say everyones fat?)

 

it's sucks to be obsessed with your weight and limiting and restricting food....it's horrible..

 

I didn't say everyone's fat, I said that the parents should be investigated into when their kids are ungodly big.

I agree that there's been a big increase in these last couple of years/past decade in anorexia and illnesses of the sort..and I didn't say that that doesn't kill, either.

 

oh, i didn't know that well...can they really help if the kid's born like that? not so much in childhood but ...can you actually be born at like 20 pounds or summat? that'd hurt

 

aahaha i was like 11 pounds when i was born
or somewhere around there

 

My brother was near 20 when he was born... I think it was 17 or 18, but I'm not sure.

I'd ask my mom but she doesn't like her family talking about that.

 

kids can also just posses genes that will make them retain large amounts of fat even when very little is consumed

 

HOOOOOOOOLY shit chuck your mom must be one strong woman

haha, my dad was like ten pounds when he was born, my grandma complains about it

 

from The Simpsons..

"that's just something fat people say."