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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,

Why are you so scared of fat people?  It must be hard to live your life thinking about this all the time.  Where do you live?  If you live in the majority high income areas of MoCo and NoVa this will be a non-issue for your family.

We are in an economically diverse school and there are a few obese children per grade.  When I have gone to school events at a nearby school that has a farms rate of less than 10%, I have never seen a fat child.[/quote]

I'm not "scared" of fat people. I honestly don't see how you got that from my post. I am actually not even "scared" of becoming fat. But I want to live a long, healthy life, and I (unlike many of you, which is very strange) realize that being overweight (yes even "just" overweight, and by that I mean having an unhealthy BMI) you are not giving yourself the best chances of having a healthy life. It's like smoking. I'd love to smoke, love it, but I realize that smoking is not healthy. I will teach my son not to smoke cigarettes, that doing so will kill you. Why can't I teach him that being fat carries the same risks when it clearly does?

As for my income and where I live, let's just say I'm not in your bubble. My son will come in contact with many fat people - I do. I love that we have diversity in our lives and I certainly don't want to move him into your type of bubble so that I can avoid these types of hard issues. [/quote]

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