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"Now with more asbestos!"
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If you just let the hyper-competitive jocks be their own god-damn gym class, and let the rest of us do some tai-chi or some shit, everyone would be happier about exercise.
12/01/09
I'm not sure if this was regional or a sign of the times (I grew up in) but I recall the President's Physical Fitness Program (or something like that) where all of us little ones had to engage in minimal strength training and aerobic exercise in gym class - primarily before middle school. Do programs like this no longer exist?
12/01/09
Yes - these children need to get off their rears and move around. The neighbourhood bus stop is stacked with minivans and EnviroCrusher 3000s full of mommies and daddies who won't let there spawn walk to the phucking bus stop. That said - the go-to solution for behavioural problems these days is a fistful of pills. Pills that make you fat, slovenly, etc... regardless of age.
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Now - this appeared in Rolling Stone in February. Imagine how long it's actually been discussed among doctors, therapists, educators and the like.
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They don't do these anymore.
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Every experience in America now centers around packing your piehole with crap. God forbid you should go to a store like Home Depot or Barnes and Noble without being able to mindlessly graze.
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In fact, I would go so far as to say the original standard NES controller is one of the greatest things Japan has ever produced.
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By comparison the croissant I got at Starbucks this morning was like a loaf of bread -- you could have fit three croissants from Paul inside of it.
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Not saying it was all fitness nirvana (See Pins or People rant below) but mostly we learned some shit about not being slothing maniacs. Here's a list:
1) Gymnastics
2) Weight training
3) Flag Football (I'm a girl)
4) Track and Field
5) Aerobics
6) Volleyball/Badminton
7) Softball
8) Basketball
9) Field Hockey/Lacrosse/Soccer
And of course, square dancing, kick ball, and jumping rope. AND we took showers. (This we fought everyday, but oh, so, necessary. Ever been in a classroom with twenty-five 13 year olds?)
Kids are getting off too easy, too early.
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I think all gym classes should be replaced with Kung Fu.
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I likes to work with mah feet.
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Nobody wants to be a part of that, you know?
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Once BMI has raised the suspicion, more accurate (and expensive) tests of body fat can be performed.
12/01/09
1) PE along with art and music is almost always the first thing to be cut. There are schools with good sports teams yet have no general PE due to budget cuts.
2) Processed foods. Both at home and likely in the Cafeteria. With the cost of food prep skyrocketing, almost all districts use some form of a food service group and likely its bided out so the CHEAPEST group gets the bid. Well its cheap for a reason people.
3) Parental fear mongering. Parents are WAY too fearful of everything. Basically pussyfying their children. Kids dont go outside, are not forced to be active, and sit in front of the boob tube all day. Both the medical field AND the media are as much to blame for this one.
3a) I would also include general lazy parenting to this too. Easier to watch their kids pay their 360 than to look out a window.
4) There is NO demand to be in shape. Being overweight is acceptable. Mind you the twist to this one is being FAT still isnt.
And for the US the biggest factor I think in all of this is the fact that schools are given all the responsibilities of being the parent, yet have absolutely no authority or respect in BEING THE PARENT. God forbid you tell little Johnny he needs to loose the weight, the parents would have their lawyers ramming down the door with their briefcases.
Back when I went to school which given my 10 year was this past Sat, wasnt too long ago, our teachers told it like it was. My gym teacher had EXPLICIT permission from my parents to KICK MY ASS if I got out of line. And you bet your ass he did.
12/01/09
Right, there is a big difference between accepting that not everyone can live up to some unacheivable ideal, thereby accepting that people have varying body types versus saying that there is nothing wrong with being morbidly obese. Everyone has a different healthy weight. For some people, that is a size 2, for others a size 12, but I am sure that it is not a size 28 for anyone but a small minority of people.
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But every single time something of this nature is posted on Jezebel, you are accused of being "fattist" for disagreeing with the principle that being obese is healthy and that those who are obese can/should do nothing about it.
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The only kids who burned calories in PE were the kids who were going to play intramural sports and beat up more kids after school anyway.
12/01/09
This is hotly debated. Personally, I think there SHOULD be shame in being morbidly obese.
There is no reason for it. I'm not saying everyone has to be the same, but I see children with huge guts and cellulite. That is just plain WRONG.
If you've been on this earth eating and drinking with abandon for 40 years, I can understand. I don't condone it, but I understand the cumulative damage.
But for CHILDREN? with their lightning-quick metabolisms and brand-new digestive systems? That is shameful
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That concept boils my blood like none other, because as you said, it's defeatist and also, not necessarily true. Yes, most people will never look like a model regardless of how much they monitor their caloric intake and exercise, but no one is claiming that they could. Crash dieting is ineffective, but a lifestyle make over can be extremely effective. Again, you can be in great physical shape and eat healthily and be a size 12. However, aside from a small minority, I have an exceedingly difficult time believing everyone who tells me that they are "very active and eat healthily" and yet are a size 28.
I think there should be greater acceptance of a broad range of body types, but at the same time, it bothers me that people cherry-pick medical studies to justify their obesity and claim it is healthier than being thin.
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We played games, but it was one half the class vs the other, and other than playful ribbing if you made a crappy shot, even the "geeks" like I was back then was not threatened in PE.
But then I had a gym teacher who was old school and cared. He not only taught me and my sister, but taught my mother and then mentored her when she became a gym teacher herself.
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