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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I'm sorry but do you people really not consider your weight when making food choices? Do you not realize the amount of time and money the food industry spends trying to get you to eat salt, sugar, and fat? The crazy rise on obesity in this country (for those who don't see it please exit the bubble and read a newspaper from time to time you will hear all about it, yes even among children). It's absurd to suggest in our society that recognizing those facts and being vigilant about maintaining a healthy weight makes you have an unhealthy view about weight. It's all part and parcel of the issue I'm raising here: that every consideration is paid to making fat people feel normal when being fat is anything but normal. [/quote]

OP, if you're a prosperous middle-class mother (like most of DCUM) who has trouble maintaining her weight, you should talk to your doctor. Otherwise, just serve healthy food, don't force your child to eat if he isn't hungry, and let your son go in for active play. Discuss his weight and growth with his pediatrician and only his pediatrician.

Don't get overinvolved in weight issues; you are more likely to cause a problem than to solve one. [/quote]

Thank you for the advice, it's useful and well-reasoned. I actually don't have trouble controlling my weight. I eat well and exercise a lot so it's really not an issue. But I know many kids who eat total crap all the time and are overweight, some are even obese. And so I do think about how I will talk to my son about eating those things when he starts to see other kids eating them all the time and wonders why our fridge and cupboards aren't stocked with them. One of the reasons I will give him, even if it's so hard for people to understand on here (still, very strange to me that they don't) is that eating too much of that kind of crap can lead to an unhealthy weight. And that that's not good for you. Just like smoking cigarettes, it's enjoyable and you might be totally fine if you choose to do it, but the odds are in favor of it making your life shorter and less healthy. Sure, we will have french fries and pizza sometimes, but if you do that all the time you're going to be fat and that's not a good thing. I suppose I will just have to fight the battle if and when it comes when some PC fat-apologist takes something he or I says and turns it into something it's not, much like has been done on this board in these responses again and again. That's a risk I will have to take. [/quote]

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