Child endangerment, abuse, or... what do you think.

…. When I was a kid dad would put us on horse walkers if we tried to sit down

Endangerment for sure but just a sign of the times. Look at the parents

…. When I was a kid my momma would spray us in the face with white rain aerosol hair spray if we even looked at a little Debbie snack

Did she hold a lighter in front of it as she sprayed?

… no that would be considered cruel

Processed food is cheap and no one has time to cook.

Not sure about any of them. What about fat adults? Are they just lazy or a burden on the healthcare system? Maybe both!

Should insurance cost them more since they are so obese and disgusting?

… they have to go on the horse walker I guess

Sounds reasonable.


Just can’t sugar coat it when they are told they have to do it. They’ll get hungry and try to eat it.

Here piggy.

Fat adults make their own choice a large amount of the time 100% avoidable. A few is a health issue they can't help. WITHIN reasion yes their insurance should be more just like they should have to pay more to get on a plane. On the plane if they take up more seating space for 1. 2 extra bag or Ober x lbs cot people more to take so why not charge mor for the extra 150 lbs taking up 3 seats?

I left home when I was 10 cause I was hungry

I killed a drifter when I was 7 and took a Twinkie

…. Nothing wrong with growing up fast I guess

No free lunches in your area?

I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

Cool

… I turned 21 in prison doing life without parol

… no one could steer me right

… but momma tried

… she just ran out of that white rain hair spray

First liar don't stand a chance

When I was a kid, of a family of 8, we were having moms meat loaf for dinner. The electric went off while we were eating on dad screamed, when the lights came back on, dad had seven forks in his hand. Mom had sliced the meatloaf in 9 slices!

You just reminded me of mom's story of when she was a kid. everyone had been eating breakfast and there was a piece of meat left on the serving plate in the center of the table she had been eye balling
She was small and the youngest and made her move fast and hard going to spear it with her fork. Just ahead of her, my grandfather reached to grab it with his hand quickly and mom stabed him right in the hand with her fork.

Growing up as a PK in the early 70,s dad did not make very much money but us boys always had fishing hooks, 22 shells and shotgun shells, deer rifles and bullets. Mom made the best squirrel pot pie and biscuits!

Awesome

I lived off of sugar sandwiches for a spell as a kid. You live off of nothing but that, you won't need no horse walker to stay trim. You just needed someone to keep you from running around in traffic. I only got run over once...

People had less stuff when most moms stayed home but they ate better food. It was a real treat to get a soda pop, candy, ice cream, or potato chips when I was a kid. PE at school meant running and calisthenics. PE today is a joke. Working moms serve a lot of premade ready to eat stuff. Kids don't ride their bikes all the over the place anymore. IMO that is the cause of the American obesity crisis.

Lots of bad food these days if you can even call it that and sedentary life styles not good for the body or soul.

I see you was raised upper middle class. Name brand hairspray and snack cakes in the house.

Haves and the Have Nots I reckon.

… a regular life of luxury lol

It’s not just even being fat today the Nation is vastly out of basic normal shape health wise many Americans can’t walk up a slight incline without being winded. 20 years ago I could out rum 2/3 of my class at the Academy many were in their 20s and 30s but played video games in their every spare moment.

when I went to my brother in laws graduation from basic the young guys all full of (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) and vinegar wanted a push up competition with this old man (me about 35 at the time). To my surprise and major disappointment not one of those young guys fresh out of basic keep up with me. I don't think but one made it past 40. I stoped before failure at 65.

the video games and life style is why my boys are so much stronger than the other kids their age I think. Splitting wood, throwing hay, packing buckets of water and bags of feed and running around the woods sure build you up more than video games.

Lot to be said for that

The out of shape guys won’t hunt with me a second time I think it’s funny the ones that do keep up I still need to let them catch up but I don’t like people on heels so that’s good. My one hunting partner that is 75 keeps up well my other biddy in his 60s struggles and won’t hunt in the high country hills.

I shot a man in Ohio with a paintball gun, just to watch him dye.
Except for the ones with medical issues being fat is a choice. Laziness and serving unhealthy food on your table is a choice. I feel for the single Parents but there are a ton of crockpot recipes out there that are better then the processed stuff.

They should all be taken from their parents and sent to fat camp.

All of my kids have to make weight for wrestling or Judo. Creates discipline and fit kids.

And, I have to set a good example so eating like a pig is out. And lifting weights/exercising is in.

Plus, I want to be able to get around when I'm old(er).

Funny, my oldest hit HS around 220.
And they wanted him bigger.

Been a SHW the last decade.
Said once you're a SHW, who cares?

Still spends a TON of time working out

Taking 600# for a walk

I always wanted a heavy weight son for those reasons.

LOL, sometimes you got to move heavy stuff you can't get at with equipment

For his size, he's surprisingly athletic.
Started BJJ at 11 and has a good ground game.
And being stronger than 99.9% of humanity doesn't hurt

LOL

reason for this post was my youngest adopted sisters daughter is a porker. I was going to get on my sister case about it when the kid was 7. Mom asked me not to so I didn't. Just saw a picture of her last week and now she has blown up crazy fat. Worse she is a young teen. Then yesterday mom called to Tell me she now has diabetes or sugar issues she had to.check her blood daily.

So I'm a bit mad at myself for not saying something about it years ago out of respect for my mother. would not have made a difference but still should have said something.

I have no idea how people can let their kids get fat like that. The parent is 100% responsible for the child's diet and activities. There is no excuse.

Buddy has a gym membership he talks about not because he's ever going do any serious workouts he’s got the typical dad body but belonging to gym is in style that’s why he joined. I guess by looking at him he breaks out in a sweat and he’s done struggles to keep up it’s kind of funny to me.

Excuses are free too

Even if they aren't sick or go to the Dr? C'mon Sheila

Kids today just do not know how to be kids, to much electronic baby sitting, they do not go out to play, just how many kids can name five school yard games.

Most of being overweight is what's put in one's mouth more than activity. Yes both are important though.

E-Bikes... motorized scooters and skate boards.

We use to have neighbor pick up games of football ..baseball...hockey.

That's one of the good things living in a neighborhood.

Verses a rural farm setting. Friends for kids are few and Faah between

The average 20 year old woman in the USA now weighs 165 pounds, whereas her eastern European counterpart weighs 132 pounds. Be aware when they say they are "average", that doesn't mean healthy, or attractive imo.

I'm substantially overweight and my #2 son opened a Powerlifting Gym! Sigmund Freud is rolling in his grave.

Still got my Twinkie and HoHos.

Some guys like fat chicks.

cutting carbs alone made my pants to large . Not sure how much I lost didn't check my weight to start with since I was not trying to loose weight just trying to support my wife the Dr told to cut carbs or take meds before she became a diabetic. Not Sure but I think wife is down at least 40 lbs blood work showing everything back in good range and she has been slowly reducing her few meds. Have not heard her complain about her knee or back lately either. She got mor active being easer to do so as the weight came off and she felt better.

Edit. guessing where I started at I think I'm down 15 to 20 lbs. didn't think I needed to loose any but now i could still get rid of a pinch or two so must have been fatter than I thought to start.

You can workout as hard and long as you want but I don't know anyone "who can out run their fork"! Wow those young people must be eating a lot of calories to gain a lot of body fat at that age. I am 77 and I do activity to maintain some muscle, keep my muscles and body stretched, but mostly to keep my bone density up. Lot of things on ones' body really slow down as we age but the desire and ability to turn excess calories into body fat doesn't.

Bryce

We now need to see if the average height is different.

No need to bother comparing women or men. All it takes is a walk anywhere to see Americand are generally unhealthy and over weight. it was bad when it was just some adults. Today just random guessing I suspect 70% of adults are over weight but it's the kids that really get me and the reason I made this thread. Over weight kids set uo a lifetime of problems and patterns that are mostly avoidable. Parents afew failing their children and honestly I see it as a form of abuse.

Had a sharky conversation with my mom this morning concerning my over weight sister having trouble recovering after having surgery to remove cancer that Segway into my other sisters now huge daughter with multiple chins and how had I said something to my sister about her kid working out when the kid was 7 instead of working about hurting my sisters feelings and emotional state like my mom was worried about the kid may not be ste up for a poor quality limited life with a lot of health problems.

Packing up equipment last week from a job and 3 kids passed me on the sidewalk. First on e-bike way overweight, second, on power scooter overweight and third kid peddling a bike was slim and trim. Made me chuckle.

If Ozempic could be affordable to all fat people it would be a Godsend. Kids are the ones that need to get on the right track as far as fatness goes.

Carbs, processed foods, preservatives, and fake food are the culprit.

And lack of activity. Put it all together for a winning healthy hand.

PF, you can lose weight without exercise. Not saying a person shouldn't exercise. Just saying you don't need it to lose weight

Weight loss is possible with out exercise being healthy is not.

I was trying to compare apples to apples; Russian and Ukrainian women, they are of similar height to Americans.
BTW, remember the song "Back in the USSR"? Whole lot of truth there.