Reply #13: Ayup ...

[RoyGBiv]

Gotta have healthy cannon fodder, after all.

Ya know, a good portion of the overweight problems in children could be solved if parents would STOP FEEDING THEM MCDONALDS AND FORCE THEM TO TURN OFF THE X-BOX ON SUNNY AFTERNOONS!!!!!

Sorry for the outburst.

I have always had a low metabolism and have flirted with a weight issue most of my life. But, when I was a kid, I played baseball. I knew how to climb a tree. I mowed lawns. I ate real food. Yeah, I played video games and stared at my computer and the idiot box, but mom and grandma would not allow me to avoid the outdoors or whatever it took to keep me active.

Now we feed kids depressants to calm them down rather than usher them out into the yard to run and be active and expend that energy, and then we take them to the local choke and puke and call it dinner.

Put that on a parental report card and send it home, but leave the kids out of it.

IMO.

/end rant