Fat kids are gross - Who's fault is this?

[Doc Cassidy]

So I'm at a gas station and there's this outrageously fat girl buying a milkshake that's probably eight years old and she has to weigh at least 120 pounds. This kid isn't just fat, she's a fucking whale. Her stomach is all bloated and distended and her face is saggy, she looks like a Silent Hill monster, I shit you not.

Her dad, or likely granddad, is normal so how the fuck is this kid so fat? How does anyone get that fat, let alone a child?

Fat kids are a plague on this earth and should be wiped the fuck out along with their parents/grandparents. I'm not legally allowed to be around children including my own but if my daughter was that disgustingly fat I'd remove all sweets from the house and she'd eat nothing but tuna fish until she looked like an actual child instead of a pulsating blubber beast.

Who do we blame for this shit?

 

[Exorbital Columnations]

Slowwww down here. If we solve the fat kid problem, who exactly is going to fall off of their scooters and howl for my amusement?

Edit: Pic related

 

[Recoil]

Who do we blame for this shit?

Blame Richard Nixon, for getting America to start using high fructose corn syrup as a government subsidized replacement for sugar in pretty much fucking everything. This happened when Nixon was trying to push this notion of America having enough calories to feed its people and poof, it just so happens that this recently discovered high fructose corn syrup thing circa 1973 Japan contains massive amounts of calories and can be made from simple corn.
Nixon decides to use this in his campaign and it gets pushed big time to all the food companies and soda companies about how cheaply they can replace sugar with high fructose corn syrup. Cut to now, everyone is fat as fuck.

 

[Kamov Ka-52]

Blame Richard Nixon, the corn lobby for getting America to start using high fructose corn syrup as a government subsidized replacement for sugar in pretty much fucking everything. This happened when Nixon was trying to push this notion of America having enough calories to feed its people and poof, it just so happens that this recently discovered high fructose corn syrup thing circa 1973 Japan contains massive amounts of calories and can be made from simple corn.
Nixon decides to use this in his campaign and it gets pushed big time to all the food companies and soda companies about how cheaply they can replace sugar with high fructose corn syrup. Cut to now, everyone is fat as fuck.

FTFY; the corn lobby is responsible for the subsidies that ensure HFC will remain very low in cost and they're also why all non-marine/av gas has ethanol in it.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

The poll is biased. There's no All Of The Above choice.

 

[queue-anon]

A kid being fat while the parents are normal seems like a similar phenomenon to people overfeeding their pets. Of course little munchkin can't possibly be hungry for more than two seconds. It's also a natural human thing to crave sugar and fat, so the kid asks for it or screams for it, and weak parents can't say no.

Kind of off topic, but I'm sort of impressed that my parents kept me skinny as a kid even though it didn't seem like they were closely monitoring what I was eating. Meanwhile, as an adult, I struggle with keeping weight off.

 

[Recoil]

FTFY; the corn lobby is responsible for the subsidies that ensure HFC will remain very low in cost.

But muh hyperbole

 

[Zilch]

I used to work at this take-out restaurant. This woman who I've seen regularly over the years, was a massive land whale who to her credit had weight loss surgery and actually changed her eating habits. She's lost at least 150lbs Good for her. However, she has this 8 year old son who is at a minimum 140lbs. She gets him soda, chips, a large order of chicken fingers, extra dipping sauce and a large fry. I just want to shake her.
Wtf are you doing?! You struggled to lose weight and had to go to a surgeon to do so and you're setting up your only child for the same future.
God I hate weak parents.

 

[PL 001]

Blame shitty parents. Kids don't have the mental and emotional maturity to have self control like that. The parents should have been teaching them that long ago. Moderation is key. You have a soda or a burger from McDonald's every now and then, it's not going to be the end of the world. If all you're living on is sugar, fat and grease, it's going to take it's toll on your body.

Young kids don't understand this. They're all about instant gratification. Blame the parents for being lazy fucksticks and not caring enough about their children to teach them how to eat healthy and take junk food in moderation.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

We blame the person who likely touched her inappropriately to make her want to eat her feelings away.

Also her parents for allowing it to happen.

 

[Rand /pol/]

How can kids even be fat? Don't children have an insane metabolism?

 

[Chalk Eater]

I feel like since some parents are busy and too lazy to cook healthy food at home, they just slide by their local drive-thru and toss the kids meal in the back. It's cheaper and more convenient, for sure! But that shit will make a kid bloat up quick, speaking from experience.

 

[Clop]

We blame the person who likely touched her inappropriately to make her want to eat her feelings away.

Also her parents for allowing it to happen.

She's safe now. Nobody wants to diddle with a fatty.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

The parents, mostly. I got fat around junior high or so due to stopping playing outside (instead, inside on computer) and eating more. My Mom would cook huge amounts of food, such that we'd end up throwing most of it away. The family had a custom of eating seconds, thirds, etc., and I don't recall having ever been told I couldn't have more food. I didn't even realize how much I was eating. Eight tacos in a dinner, that sort of deal. I had a large appetite so I didn't feel strange putting that much food (especially meat, potatoes, and bread) down my throat, and I was never chastised for it.

At some point I recall them starting to make jokes about me eating, perhaps with the intention of correcting it, but they still never just came out and said, "You are eating too much, you can't have any more." It wasn't until adulthood that I looked back on it and realized how big my portion sizes used to be. And, when I go home, I often eat like that still, as opposed to the set portion sizes I get at restaurants.

To this day they won't admit any fault in letting me become fat, and I suspect that (while it's certainly possible for anybody to lose weight) I will be like this for the rest of my life.

 

[RG 448]

A kid being fat while the parents are normal seems like a similar phenomenon to people overfeeding their pets.

A kid being fat while the parents are normal is a prelude to the parents being fat and the kid mysteriously disappearing.

 

[garakfan69]

To this day they won't admit any fault in letting me become fat, and I suspect that (while it's certainly possible for anybody to lose weight) I will be like this for the rest of my life.

If you're not losing the excess weight now that you're an adult then your fat ass is your fault and your fault alone.

 

[Doc Cassidy]

How can kids even be fat? Don't children have an insane metabolism?

Right??? Fat kids don't even make sense I mean just imagine how fat she's going to be as an adult holy shit

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

If you're not losing the excess weight now that you're an adult then your fat ass is your fault and your fault alone.

I completely agree, at this point it's a matter of willpower. I tried weightlifting and made progress but I ended up plateauing, and got so disgusted with it I quit. I know I need to try again because if I don't get fit as a young adult, it will probably never happen.

I think my point about overfeeding children is valid, though. Saying "oh well, it's up to them how much they eat" and not even calling it to their attention isn't much different from saying "oh well, it's up to them if they want to smoke pot" or "oh well, they can goof off in class."

They were really good parents otherwise, too.

 

[MAPK phosphatase]

Childhood obesity is a complex problem so it's difficult to nail down a single cause. The parents. The industry of high fructose sweeteners that find their way into everything. Fast food. The rise of sedentary entertainment replacing exercise. Really it's probably a combination, with some things giving a greater effect than others.
I can say, however, it's not the child's fault.

 

[Rand /pol/]

I completely agree, at this point it's a matter of willpower. I tried weightlifting and made progress but I ended up plateauing, and got so disgusted with it I quit. I know I need to try again because if I don't get fit as a young adult, it will probably never happen.

I think my point about overfeeding children is valid, though. Saying "oh well, it's up to them how much they eat" and not even calling it to their attention isn't much different from saying "oh well, it's up to them if they want to smoke pot" or "oh well, they can goof off in class."

They were really good parents otherwise, too.

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