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frisco
on 5/12/12 6:14 pm

So..... I'm at my local Safeway picking up a few items..... Fage Yogurt $1 ea. an Eggplant, Broccoli, some Chicken Tenders, Tetley Tea, 4 gallons of water........

I'm putting my stuff on the conveyor.......and I see this......

I got got at my own game......in film making we get some time to develop a story.... In still photography we have to tell a story in a single frame.

I didn't even feel the need to read the story...... I knew the story.....that was my story.....as an American/Asian maybe holding a bowl of fried rice along with the French fries......

The inside story may be different, but it really doesn't matter..... as a society were getting fatter and the chances of a new born ending up 300lbs. is pretty real and puts it into perspective.

frisco

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smbergie200
on 5/12/12 10:26 pm - Naples, FL

VSG on 08/23/11

Shame on Mcdonalds. They could of got free advertising with some golden arches on that fry box. Yep - so true. This kid does have the odds stacked against him. There is a very good posibilty of him hitting the 300's by age 30. The sad thing is with the growing trend of bariatric surgery as a "fix" to obesity - I don't think it will solve the problem either. You just plain CANNOT eat the American diet and expect to be healthy. Not to mention I always found it frustrating that a nation that hates fat people is set up to breed fat people. Kind of ironic - sad - and true. The great news is that I was able to hit my 300's by my early 20's so I guess I was a superstar!

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Happy966
on 5/12/12 10:33 pm

VSG on 08/29/11

I mostly talk about my own personal issues and coping strategies because that's that limit of my control. But we do live in a society where the food industry conspires to hook us on specific foods so we'll buy their products. I guess it's just the logical intersection of capitalism and consumerism, but it makes me feel so discouraged about our future I can hardly bear to think about it.

It's nuts to think to think we individually are entirely responsible for this crisis in obesity. And no wonder sustained weight loss is harder to achieve than kicking heroin. Ten thousand years of evolution haven't prepared us for this.

:) Happy

53 yrs old, 5'6" HW: 293 ConsW: 273 SW: 263 CW: 206

Phatchick
on 5/12/12 10:42 pm - Brookfield, IL

VSG on 04/16/12

Ugh, this is more controversial than the Time magazine cover on breast feeding, yet until you mentioned it, nobody has said anything about this. It seems we are a country of people who are just shrugging their shoulders and accepting this. So very sad. Very provacative cover. Best, Sharon

tripmom02
on 5/13/12 2:15 am - NJ

VSG on 08/01/11

And studies show that children like the one on the cover of Time who are breastfeed beyond a year are LESS likely to be obese. It seems like we KNOW as a nation that there is an issue, but since people don't feel like there is any way to combat it they just accept it, and it's sad.

When healthy things like breastfeeding become controversial, while we turn a blind eye to our kids being poisoned by the GMO food we feed them, something is very, very wrong.

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ruggie
on 5/13/12 3:50 am - Sacramento, CA

VSG on 07/06/11

I cannot support this sentiment enough!!!

(Also, I'd mince words about GMO food versus whole foods, but that's a different discussion.)

Heaviest weight: 310 pounds (Male, 5'10")

happiegirl
on 5/12/12 11:33 pm - Albuquerque, NM

VSG on 04/24/12

I head on a cnn special on obesity that soon diabetes will be a pediatric disease! What the hell?! Lol now they are looking at being 30 at 18....I know teens who already are! We all have to change.

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loverofcats
on 5/12/12 11:35 pm

VSG on 08/30/10

Wow. This is so sad and unfortunately, more true than not.

Donna B.
on 5/13/12 1:27 am

some random thoughts...

it seems that being 100+ pounds overweight is now the new paradigm for 'normal.'

sometimes i wonder if the obesity epidemic is weighing down the economy -- minus the food industries.

Great post frisco! the Newsweek cover with byline says a thousand words.

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(deactivated member)
on 5/13/12 1:30 am

The number ne reason why I had WLS was to BE the example for my daughters. Lead through example. Lean protein, lefts of fruits and veggies and no processed white "crap." of course exception s can be made on birthdays, etc.

It is so sad but each one of us CAN make a difference. One persnickety at a time....

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