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We also need a poem on why high-fat, high-sugar food is cheap and healthy food is expensive; and how schools can teach kids how to cook from scratch (which needs maths and literacy).
I'd rather enjoy myself and die a little sooner than starve myself and die at 150. Like, seriously, what's the point of living that long when you die on a hospital bed looking more like the vegetables you've been eating than a human.
How does nobody see the glaring problems in this video? There are a million logical overlaps, contradictions, outdated mindsets, and an overall inconsideration of the modern mental health of kids today. Not only that, but he actively dismisses modern solutions because "that's not what he did back in his heyday, so it must be bad!" Apparently, it's bad to use modern, easier solutions to problems, which achieve the same results. Good health for kids is important, but Taylor makes it sound like a dictatorship with strict, outdated rules. I know kids. If their teachers and parent force them to do something, they'll have a negative connection with it in the future. Let kids adopt good health as a practice, not a skill, and let them go at their own pace with their own ways of going about it, you totalitarian.
BRO how are you guys upset? HE LITERALLY SPOKE FACTS❗️you angry fat people need to get yourselves together damn. Ain’t nobody fault but yours! Eating disorder or not, I’ve seen people come back from that. NO EXCUSES. EXCELLENT POEM❗️
It's a poem designed to try to convince people that the only way to be and stay healthy is to remove the things that make life worth living, like sugar, screen time, and not having a heartbeat permanently stuck in the upper echelons of the 170s. I think that some people who are doing just fine don't want to have their parents and family force "health" on them via taking away the things that prevent the dark spiral of depression from how fucked up the world is. Also, the poem lies when it says that America is the wealthiest country, unless he's addressing Qatar. I'm not saying that health isn't good, but a poem that says that health means making life shit is not a poem I like. I can also assume that many of the angry comments are from kids who were force-fed this poem in class and automatically barf it back up because they *don't want anything that school tells them to do.*
´´Shouldn't the children of the country that's the wealthiest´´ hahaha The US isnt the wealthiest it owes other countrys trillions and can never repay them
there are many other factors you know. like the food industry, pricing of foods, not getting paid enough. some people do want to eat healthy they just cant afford it.
Holy crap! Did I just see/hear someone talking about being healthy by taking personal responsibility rather than having the government take away personal freedom? I like it.
Ignoring the fact that if you're Gen X or millennial and grew up in America, you were subjected to government propaganda meant to boost the grain industry at the cost of our health
This is dumb because a large portion of our country is poverty stricken immigrants, and those of different creeds than the original Caucasian men that lived here, here being the youth of America this poem reefers to. Mexico being the fattest country has over 50,000,000 of their people (citizens being of mexican decent) in America. Its not Americans so to say the country thats the healthiest should also be the wealthiest is misleading. I feel this piece was well put together but lacked facts and was no that moving.
While the intent of this piece is excellent, the execution is lacking and that is due to lack of education. Educators in general (I am one) have a terrible habit of running with things that "seem" like they should be right instead of waiting for evidence. What is happening with our current anti-obesity campaigns, BMI testing, and nutrition education is that eating disorders are now being triggered in children as young as five. Eating disorders are more deadly than obesity and they certainly kill our children faster. I implore you to look at this study, "Trading Health for a Healthy Weight: The Unintended Consequences of Healthy Weight Initiatives." www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23421694 The use of the term "FATTER" demonstrates no understanding of the role fat-shaming plays in contributing to rising weights and rates of eating disorders and is truly reprehensible coming from an educator. If you truly care about children, you will pull this piece and go back to the drawing board. I am not opposed to health education, I am opposed to misguided, counterproductive and damaging health education. This piece, "Ten Things Parents Wish Educators Knew About Eating Disorders" would be a good place to start in understanding why this is not okay. ucsdeatingdisorders.tumblr.com/post/91380703718/ten-things-parents-wish-educators-knew-about-eating.
You know that compulsive overeating is an eating disorder too, right? Part of the problem is that, even in the realm of eating disorders, fat people are shamed. People call things like anorexia and bulimia eating disorders, but people who overeat are supposed to just have the willpower to stop. So, your statement "eating disorders are more deadly than obesity" rings false to me when you consider that what leads to obesity in many cases is compulsive eating or binge eating. Where I do agree with you, however, is in the fact that we should be focusing on health rather than being "anti-obesity." It's not about what a person looks like, it's about how well their bodies function and what they're capable of. But that's why this video was so successful in my opinion. It focuses on health as a lifestyle, rather than on simply a means to an end. So, I'm not going to nit-pick use of the word "fatter" as if that drowns out the rest of the message, because I don't think it does.
Teresa Jusino You are right, I should have been more specific about the eating disorders I was talking about and was remiss in not considering Binge Eating Disorder (BED). The fact remains that studies show this type of "education" does far more harm than good. Eating Disorders--of all types--are being triggered in children as young as five as a result of misguided education attempts. We need evidence-based interventions surrounding nutrition education, not feel-good attempts to embed non-nuanced health education in schools. A little knowledge is truly a dangerous thing.
+Teresa Jusino maybe you want to hear it from a student that the word ¨fatter¨ made more of an impact than the rest of the poem, while the poem´s message did stick, the use of the word hurt me since i have been called that for most of my life. and i do agree with you to, as someone who has had troubles with overeating and isnt insanely over weight, people just assume that its something you can switch on and off. its not, its just as real as any other eating disorder, but the use of the word fatter, if it impacts me more than the rest of it, will impact other people in a similar way.
+Jenn O also maybe ya know, have more examples of other body types in the media to influence girls, teach people that just because you´re bigger doesnt mean youre obese, etc, etc.
