# “Your child is, in my opinion, moderately obese and should not be consuming sugar and treats" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 30, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685 "2013-10-30T16:17:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/21 "2013-10-30T21:46:31Z")
What a witch! I agree that kids should not gorge themselves on candy, but shaming them is not at all helpful. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/22 "2013-10-30T21:50:04Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > If she doesn’t want to hand out candy, she can hand out little toys. Or just not participate at all. I can’t imagine that getting a letter like that would do any good to an obese kid. Exactly. Trust me. The fat kid already knows he’s fat and is already dealing with people mocking him all the time. Giving his friends candy while handing him a “lesson” is cruel. And frankly, it’s not going to work. It’s not just Halloween candy that makes people fat, for crying out loud. It’s eating too much and not moving enough _on a regular basis_. It’s not the pillowcase full of Smarties and fun-size Twix that’s going to drag children to obesity. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/23 "2013-10-30T21:50:06Z")
> [@CLee](#): > > Why gamble on this? Someone just got suspended and threatened with banning for criticizing obesity. Are you trying to goad someone into getting the same attention from mods? Your loving concern has been noted. But he wasn’t suspended for criticizing obesity. It was for his too harsh language and then the coffin in the nail was for not following mod instructions to dial back the harshness. I say good on the woman. There are way too many young fatties. When they start having kids their kids are going to see their fattnes and think it’s ok for them to be fat. And the same for when they have kids. In a couple of generations the numbers below will be for non-obese kids. > [@](#): > > Among American children ages 2–19, the following are overweight or obese, using the 95th percentile or higher of body mass index (BMI) values on the CDC growth chart: > > For non-Hispanic whites, 30.1 percent of males and 25.6 percent of females. > For non-Hispanic blacks, 36.9 percent of males and 41.3 percent of females. > For Mexican Americans, 40.5 percent of males and 38.2 percent of females. > **[American Heart Association | To be a relentless force for a world of longer,...](https://www.heart.org/en)** > > Learn more about the American Heart Association's efforts to reduce death caused by heart disease and stroke. Also learn about cardiovascular conditions, ECC and CPR, donating, heart disease information for healthcare professionals, caregivers, and... ---
**Author:** ![LinusK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@LinusK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LinusK)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/24 "2013-10-30T21:56:13Z")
You know, it’s tricks _or_ treats. Her choice. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/25 "2013-10-30T22:01:21Z")
How could she possibly think this was a good idea?? What an idiot… ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/26 "2013-10-30T22:01:30Z")
I can only think this women hasn’t realized that just because a kid is fat, he or she is rarely so fat that they can’t throw an egg or a roll of toilet paper. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/27 "2013-10-30T22:26:02Z")
And I hope that when the cops come fot the “my house got egged” call, they say “what did you expect” ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/28 "2013-10-30T22:39:42Z")
There’s already a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=706451) from 9:00 this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/29 "2013-10-30T22:42:16Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > OK, I want you to tell me what these trick or treaters looked like. > Well, the big kid, he was kinda funny-looking. > In what way? > I dunno, just funny-lookin’. > Can you be any more specific? > I couldn’t really say. He wasn’t thin. > Was he funny lookin’ apart from that? > Yeah. > So - you were giving mean notes to the big kid, then? > Uh-huh. > Is there anything else you can tell me about him? > No. Like I say, he was funny lookin’. More n’ most kids even. Well, at least you weren’t having sex with ‘em. Even the funny-lookin’ one. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/30 "2013-10-30T22:46:48Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > And I hope that when the cops come fot the “my house got egged” call, they say “what did you expect” “I expected him to eat the eggs!” ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/31 "2013-10-30T22:50:48Z")
Merged two active threads on this topic. **Hal Briston** – MPSIMS Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/32 "2013-10-30T23:04:42Z")
Ho-hum. Must be a slow news day in the Dakotas. Or Australia. Is there ever a fast news day in the Dakotas? It will all blow over by Friday and we’ll be back to worrying about less important matters, like razor blades in apples. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/33 "2013-10-30T23:09:29Z")
> [@Avulsed Brainstem](#): > > There are some tiresome aspects of Halloween - mainly, the assumption that every household wants to/must participate, and must in essence throw up a barbed wire fence if they don’t want to. (Dark house, exterior lights off, etc.) Almost as tiresome are those who think they can bend it to their interests, be it the churchies who have to make a huge issue about keeping kids from practicing Satanism or goo-dooders like this one who think they can shame kids into behaving the way the dooder thinks they should. I disconnected my doorbell for halloween about eight years ago. I liked it so much i have never reconnected it. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/34 "2013-10-31T00:18:35Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > It’s good that she is able to figure out immediately why the child is moderately obese. My sister was a test case for treatment with cortisone for leukemia back in the 60s - one of the last roll of pictures my father took of her was at halloween, full moon puffy face and all, she looked like a little fattie [as long as you didn’t also see her scrawny body] in her pumpkin costume. Lady is a bitch, I hope her house gets egged thoroughly and then toilet papered. [makes the paper stick a treat if you don’t get it off immediately.] ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/35 "2013-10-31T01:55:08Z")
Happy Halloween and Happy Holidays, Bitch! You are probably wondering why you are receiving this egging; have you ever heard the saying “It takes a village to support an idiot?” I am disappointed in “the Village” of Fargo Moorhead, West Fargo. You are in my opinion, massively overbearing and should not be blowharding in the presence of children. My hope is that you will step up as a human being and stifle yourself this Halloween and not allow your self indulgence to promote unhealthy self-image in children. Though I prefer not to indulge martyrs like yourself, if you ask for a poke in the nose, I won’t “deny” you. It’s just really irresponsible of people to allow you to open the door just 'cause all the other grownups are doing it. Families should take more responsibility for their self-indulgent blowhards and keep them from becoming full-on blatherskites. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/36 "2013-10-31T02:20:35Z")
There are individually wrapped dried fruits and there are even treat-sized pistachios marketed for Halloween. All she has to do is hand those out instead of candy. No one wants to hear her stupid opinion. No one wants the gross, ugly, stupid lady to open her mouth and say anything. They especially don’t want stupid shit from her in writing. For some, fat can be fixed, even simply outgrown. For her, ugly on the inside and the outside, there’s no fixing that. She will die lonely and alone, with egg on her face. And on her house, and her car. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/37 "2013-10-31T02:41:03Z")
It would be cool if all the kids, skinny and fat, decided to boycott her house. StG ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/38 "2013-10-31T05:35:51Z")
Deciding to give notes just to the fat kids is pretty stupid, too - it’s not like skinny kids are getting more healthy by eating a bagful of candy, either. I think it’s just meanness on her part, pure and simple. She’s just trying to dress it up a little by pretending it’s out of concern for the fat kids’ health. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/39 "2013-10-31T06:17:00Z")
Does she have a different letter is the kid is really really fat? Ok, you get candy, you get the green letter, you get the blue letter. (A BLUE LETTER!) ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/40 "2013-10-31T11:11:31Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Does she have a different letter is the kid is really really fat? > > Ok, you get candy, you get the green letter, you get the blue letter. (A BLUE LETTER!) The kids wearing skimpy costumes get a scarlet letter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685.md?page=3)