The question is "should children have the right to chose to be fat?". The point is, that children aren't stupid. Small and uninformed yes. Stupid no.
They should have food education lessons where they are shown a video of famous fat people and force fed cake...
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then shown a video of a famous skinny person and force fed cigarettes and cocaine.
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The child will begin to rationalise the two states of being. Fat. Skinny. Neither is good in the extreme. But then they are informed. The child then has the right to be a little chip gorging tubby or not.
Physical education in school is a false description of running around a cold field while bigger kids kick their ass and teachers call them names. Self esteem issues are at this point being developed that will stay with the child for the rest of their life. So the argument that the nhs spends millions on the results of obesity is ridiculous considering the cost of treating the neurotics that the school p.e. Sessions cause. (60 million prescriptions are written for mental health medications every year)
Not to mention the need to become a goth or listen to rap music and indulge in knife crime. Both huge costs to the tax payer.
Essentially "enforced" exercise is boring and can result in bullying, but playing computer games and eating deep fried mayonnaise clots is also a negative plan because it results in poor imagination, interpersonal skills and health problems. So children need to have the right to choose. If they want to be fat then let them, (parents making their kids fat for christmas as a cheap alternative to turkey or with laziness via cooking and over feeding are a different matter obviously).
The plan I have laid out could save the government at least £4 a year and the lives of untold people. Let children choose the right to be the shape they want. In a few years they will resent you for their condition either way. And most importantly stress is a more pressing disease to children. (the stressed child pictured below is only 7 years old).
Thank you for reading. You may one day save someone's life*.
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