MarkChristopher's Blog

I am following up to Fox's morning show blog about doctors being able to say something to children who are over weight, and also parents and also want to take it a little further.

I think the doctors have every right to, as this is part of their job to try to keep patients healthy, whether they are children or not, and being over weight and or obese is not healthy and can lead to a lot of other health problems, and it's worse for a child to be over weight verse an adult as their body has not fully developed.

I do not agree with making fun of over weight kids by calling them mean names, this only makes them worse in most cases. The best thing to do, in my opinion, is to try to help them by seeing if they would like help or ideas for exercising, or help them with their diet.

The main reason why I am posting this blog today is because this afternoon I was in Wal-mart (a rare place for me to be lol) and I was waiting in line to check out and I was watching the family who was checking out in front of me, this was a mother, two sons (one was around 10, the other around 13), two daughters (one was around 15, the other around 2) They all would be considered obese or close to. The older son was extremely obese, he could barely fit down the check out lane. The baby was not really that over weight, however I am sure she will become a victim soon enough, just like the rest of the children.

As I noticed this family I decided to look at what kinds of groceries they put on the counter, as I really had nothing better to do, all of the food was JUNK, they must have had ten plus boxes of frozen pizza, the big 100 count box's of pizza rolls, sugary cereals, ten plus bottles of soda, and just all kinds of stuff like this, nothing healthy at all which of course did not suprise me after looking at them.

I am not the one to tell anyone what they should or should not eat, however when you are a mother and you have children who are grossly over weight to obese and you continue to feed them foods like this I think it becomes a matter of child abuse, and of course bad parenting. If you cannot cook for your children or are not able to feed them healthy meals than in my opinion you should not have children because this is not being responsible for your children.

What do you think about parents like this??? I know this is not a rare sight to see, I have seen plenty of other families like this.

I remember a while back the authorities where trying to take that obese child away from the mother over in Europe because she was not putting her child on a diet and they where accusing her of child abuse... not sure of what the outcome was.