"Polly Esther" > wrote in message
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> "Mark Thorson" <> A much better idea is to have posters in classrooms
>> that heap ridicule and scorn on fat kids. Fat people
>> get heart attacks! Fat people look fat! Fat people
>> eat while people starve! Fat people contribute to
>> global warming!
>>
>> That would work. Or, at least it's worth trying.
>> It would be a lot cheaper.
>>
>> It's coming. I can feel it. Fat will be the new
>> smoking.
>
> Mark, you're a sight. You know that? It is a serious problem. Dr.
> Rosenthal on 'House calls' said recently that overweight children have a
> much greater incidence of cancer as adults. If diabetes isn't tough
> enough - there's one more.
> Maybe we could just send them to camp. I well remember my camp
> summers. Up before dawn, always something exhausting going on and
> everybody was so hungry at mealtime there were no picky eaters. ( I was a
> picky eater but was so glad to get something to eat I'd have tried
> Armadillo.) Polly

I remember camp too. Cold showers and crap food. Peanut butter and mint
jelly sandwiches. And a suitcase full of candy that my mom sent.