Comments on: “To Cure a Fat Child Is Not a Simple Matter”: 1967 PSA

By: DW Steinmetz

DW Steinmetz — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:51:43 +0000

Oh by all means, let’s make it a GENDER issue. It’s all MOM’S fault (said with sarcasm). If I were a dad and my kids were feeding like pigs at a slop bucket, I would definitely intervene. It’s far too easy to blame various, faceless entities (the government, McDonalds). Or one gender over the other. The main reason why so many kids (and adults) are disgusting fatbodies is lack of discipline. Both personal AND parental. End of discussion. Get off your fat bum and walk a few minutes every day. Stop eating junk all the time. And teach your kids the same. See mercurianferret’s post about peer pressure. Lead by example.

By: Bri

Bri — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:38:52 +0000

Why does the Father have absolutely no part in his Child’s health?

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:40:41 +0000

The sixties were absolutely notorious for this kind of “help”. There wasn’t enough REAL help to put in a thimble, but there was a lot of authoritative lecturing. I feel genuinely sorry for anybody who sincerely sought help back then. If you got any, it was purely an accident.
It wasn’t til I read Susan Powter’s books a few years ago, that I really understood the relationship between food and weight.

By: Senga

Senga — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:43:32 +0000

We always freeze bread – mostly rye, wholegrain and seed breads (for what its worth). We shop weekly or fortnightly. Odd that you don’t know anyone who does this.

By: “What are calories, doctor?” « Food Rant

“What are calories, doctor?” « Food Rant — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:29:48 +0000

[...] evolve – or don’t. Also, some of them are just plain hilarious. They recently posted this 1960s PSA film, about children and obesity, which, as so many of these things, teeters on that fine, fine line [...]

By: Sive

Sive — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:27:57 +0000

Let alone other diseases that can have drastic impacts on an individual’s weight without directly effecting hormone levels, a la celiac’s. Or medications that cause weight gain as a common side effect.

By: Simone

Simone — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:57:06 +0000

The web of causation is just so complicated here.

By: Simone

Simone — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:55:49 +0000

Breastfeeding causes *babies* and *young children* to be chubby, and sometimes even “overweight.” However, those children tend to be healthier, and are also more likely to have “normal” body weight as adults.

By: Hi

Hi — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:42:12 +0000

It wasn’t created, it was redefined.

By: Ang

Ang — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:58:30 +0000

Or maybe it’s not an “imbalance,” it’s just that, you know, people naturally differ quite a bit, and some ways of being are valued more than others and thus are labeled as being problematic.

By: Ariel

Ariel — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:03:03 +0000

I didn’t assume anything. I addressed the comment you made here, and it did seem a little non-sequitur.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:45:11 +0000

I eat frozen bread. It means I can eat it a bit at a time instead of buying a whole loaf and having half go off because I can’t eat it in time.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:42:50 +0000

Fried food and white bread aren’t junk food, they’re FOOD.

By: depresso

depresso — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:43:52 +0000

But what about poor, poor Valerie? What happened to her? Maybe she grew a bit older and realised that beauty is from within and thin =/= healthy/beautiful/a good person and that’s why we see nothing more of her after her mother tells her to stop eating chocolate?

By: Dr. Ivo Robotnik

Dr. Ivo Robotnik — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:53:25 +0000

As someone with hypothyroidism, I cluckled. “But they’re so RARE in number that they don’t really matter in the long run” is a phrase I get ever so sick of reading; especially since I don’t think we’ve actually done a consensus for thyroid disorders.