I get tired of the fat/skinny argument. The issue is body fat. Lazs says many kids where fat when he and the flintstones played w/Dino. This is bull sh it. We have a obeseity epidemic now. I see way more chubbed out kids than I ever went to school with. The kids that where chubby w/my generation did all the same things we did..they where just bigger. Now... you have lard tulips who idea of excercise is a Mofo-ing Wii.
Its so PC correct to say being fat is okay. Its like watching a Opra show and seeing the fat women cry that her hubby doesnt wanna bag her anymore and left her for the younger hottie w/the slimmer bod and more functional brain. Booo f u ing hooo.... lose some wieght.
batdog nailed it.

This country is in serious denial. Most of us are fat, and many of us are disgustingly obese. We've been taught to blame McDonald's, Global Warming, El Nio, Space Aliens, The Government, whatever

, but the truth is
we alone decide what and how much we stuff down our throats. I was a kid in the 60's and 70's. We had maybe one fat kid in our class, the rest of us being typical active, wiry kids. Comparing those kids to the kids of today is a no-brainer. Today's kids (and their parents) are significantly heavier.
Skyeho mentioned the explosive growth of Bariatric medicine earlier. Stop and think about it. How twittle'd up have we become when one of the most rapidly growing fields in medicine is there strictly to deal with what was once a relative rarity?
Whether we want to admit it or not, americans are overweight, and it's becoming a burden on all of us, whether it's our own health, the health of our family members, or the growing ranks of the "self-disabled" who need (
demand) to be taken care of.
If I sound unsympathetic, you're absolutely right. My little sister was a nurse until one of these nasty fat-azzes "coded" (heart attack) while she was trying to get her back into bed. The lady weighed over 400 lbs and fell right on top of my sister. Now she's on permanent disability with a titanium cage holding two of her damaged vertabrae together. She'll be on powerful pain medication for the rest of her life. Unsympathetic is an understatement.