My blood is still boiling right now as I type. I just talked to the mother of a patient who is morbidly obese. He's only twelve but he's over 240 lb (110 kg for non-Americans).

As I talked to the mother about having him lose weight and the danger of diabetes, she walked out on me before I finished, saying that I am rude. I am so upset that people rather turn a blind eye on their kids' problem instead of facing the issue. They want to deny that their kids are fat and instead just calling them "big boned".

I really want to make a difference, but I feel like I am on a one-man crusade against a tidal wave of junk food and bad sedantary habits. I guess I lost one today, and in the very near future, he's going to be diagnosed with diabetes. Decades down the line, he's going to have his feet amputated and his name put on a kidney transplant list because of renal failure.

Please, if you're overweight, do something about it now before it's too late. I'll try to save one life at a time, but it's a tough uphill battle against people's ignorance.

I take it you are a doctor of some-sort? Well you have every right to be pissed, Parents like that dont want to hear that it was their poor parenting skills that got them to where they are today. I have some simpathy for those children, mainly in the way that it is a medical condition that they can't help (I mean food is their happy "drug"), but much like any addiction, the only one that can help them is themselves, they need to stop the poor eating habbits and start a healthier life style.

But I dont necicerily agree with "making fun of other kids should be encouraged in grade school", because I believe that this will lead to more problems later on, sure their may be the "john bestow" in the 4th grade that will take the ridicule as a sighn to change, but I believe that a majority of children will be over sensitive, and look to food even more as a happy "drug".

I am in a computer lab at college right now, and 4 out of the 7 people i see in here are moderately fat to morbidly obese. It makes me absolutely sick that people let themselves get to this point. I vomit thinking of the fact that there are 10-year-olds who weigh twice what i wiegh at age 19. Even more so at the fact that no one seems to think its bad in any way. I will be writing a thesis soon on how technology and society are reversing evolution. Here's a preview:

"With the advent of 'political correctness,' we have seen many things previously thought unacceptable become a social norm. In days past humans as a species shunned inferior members of thier species such as people who are fat, old, sick, mentally ill, and crippled. This is how natural selection works. In theory, if a certain family line was genetically predisposed to a terminal illness, they would die out and eventually there would be no more of this genetic fault left to propagate. Take my own poor eyesight as an example. In earlier eras, someone with poor eyesight would be much more likely to die because of decreased awareness of suroundings and even a lesser likelyhood of hunting successfully for food. With the invention of glasses I can perhaps live much longer and appear much less sickly, thereby giving me more of a chance to find a mate. This only worsens the human species by letting me propagate my poor eyesight genes......"

Same goes for fatness, as soon as we embrace it, we degrade our species by predisposing future generations to this horrible thing.