How to Help A Child Lose Weight [Help a reader out!]

by Charlottebad advertising, body image, children, diets, fat, news, obesity, rants, reader questions, weight gain/lossPosted on 57 Comments

Courtesy of the State of Georgia’s new childhood obesity campaign Three hours of hysterical sobbing, a whole box of kleenex thrown and self-inflicted eye poking (yes, really) is what my third grader did when I assigned him a second sheet of math problems after he lied to me about having homework so he could go …

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Selling Weight Loss to Children [Are kids the next casualties in the diet wars?]

by Charlottebad advertising, children, obesity, UncategorizedPosted on 75 Comments

“Tell me I’m not angry for no reason!!!” was the subject line on an e-mail from Gym Buddy Lindsey. I tried to imagine what would be so upsetting as to require the use of a double negative and extraneous punctuation.  That it continued with “I’m so pissed!!!!!!!!!!” only made me more intrigued. (And more entertained …

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