# “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:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/61 "2013-11-02T19:16:44Z")
> [@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? Link? ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/62 "2013-11-02T20:37:33Z")
You know, if this woman is going to single-handedly fight obesity, wouldn’t the better note be “If you walk 1 mile to my house every day, I’ll be here with some candy for you.” The lack of exercise is much more the issue than 80 calories of chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/63 "2013-11-02T20:51:00Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > That was stupid. > > That was even stupider. > > I notice both of you are from Wisconsin. What the hell makes Wisconsin so special that you can look down on the Dakotas? Wisconsin looks _up_ to N. Dakota, according to the map. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AlmostPerfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/74df32/32.png) [@AlmostPerfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlmostPerfect)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/64 "2013-11-04T04:48:26Z")
I know this is a few days off, but my understanding that was that she was planning on giving the normal amount of candy to the obese kids ALONG WITH the note. Sealed and enveloped to give to the child’s parents. The note said something along the lines of “I’ve noticed your kid is obese, please be thoughtful when allowing him to eat all of this halloween’s candy in one sitting” or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/65 "2013-11-04T17:21:30Z")
Once again, it was a hoax. There was no lady, no note, and no obese kids. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/66 "2013-11-04T17:57:42Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > … and no obese kids. Well, i wouldn’t go\* that\* far. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/67 "2013-11-04T18:41:19Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > And our cheese curds squeak! Big deal, you can get that in Bandon, Oregon. 😃 ---
**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:** [November 4, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/68 "2013-11-04T20:48:50Z")
It has come to our attentions that parents THROW AWAY their children’s halloween candy - is there any truth to this? If there is, this year will have been the last year any kids in my neighbourhood get any of my husband’s candy. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 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/672685/69 "2013-11-04T21:56:18Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > I notice both of you are from Wisconsin. What the hell makes Wisconsin so special that you can look down on the Dakotas? Trees? 😃 No, really. I’ve lived both places. I think all the trees North Dakota ever had got blown by the endless wind into Wisconsin. And, by no coincidence, you can look down on stuff easier from the crown of a tree than from on top of a fencepost.\* I’m from neither Wisconsin nor ND; just making an observation. \*Discounting buildings – and let’s face it, barns and grain silos can get pretty tall (and antennas too) – the fenceposts of ubiquitous three-wire barbed wire fencing are almost the tallest terrain feature in the entire state of North Dakota. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/70 "2013-11-04T22:09:41Z")
I drove to North Dakota once…once. I probably saw all there was to see in that 5 minutes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/71 "2013-11-05T02:39:30Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > It has come to our attentions that parents THROW AWAY their children’s halloween candy - is there any truth to this? If there is, this year will have been the last year any kids in my neighbourhood get any of my husband’s candy. I’ve never heard of it. I’ve heard of parents who confiscate it for themselves, or that ration out the candy. I’ve heard of some that will throw away any candy that looks “tampered with” (i.e. damaged packaging.) But never just throw it away Wait a sec, you aren’t whooshing me, are you? I mean, that sounds exactly like the type of hoax I’d see. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2013, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/72 "2013-11-05T11:20:19Z")
One of my friends has an orthodontist who buys the candy from his patients for $2 per pound. He then donates it for the troops. I assume they have some method of shipping it off to Afghanistan without the chocolate melting. . . ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/73 "2013-11-05T14:20:37Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > It has come to our attentions that parents THROW AWAY their children’s halloween candy - is there any truth to this? If there is, this year will have been the last year any kids in my neighbourhood get any of my husband’s candy. My office manager does. She’s one of those people who doesn’t want her kids eating any :eek: ZOMFG CHEMICALS!!! :eek: so she has her kids leave ALL their candy out (they don’t get to eat _any_ of it) for the “Halloween Witch,” who brings them each a $10 toy and tosses all that candy in the garbage. And she doesn’t even bring any in for her non-chemical-phobic coworkers. Bitch. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/74 "2013-11-05T14:29:48Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > It has come to our attentions that parents THROW AWAY their children’s halloween candy - is there any truth to this? If there is, this year will have been the last year any kids in my neighbourhood get any of my husband’s candy. Pretty sure only an insignificantly tiny portion of parents do that. Our own kid is pretty strange (to me): he likes candy okay, but isn’t crazy for it. He’s perfectly satisfied eating a single chocolate bar a day - when I was a kid, I’d scarf down chocolate until I was ill if I was allowed. 😃 ---
**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:** [November 5, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/75 "2013-11-05T14:54:03Z")
> [@ugly ripe tomato](#): > > My office manager does. She’s one of those people who doesn’t want her kids eating any :eek: ZOMFG CHEMICALS!!! :eek: so she has her kids leave ALL their candy out (they don’t get to eat _any_ of it) for the “Halloween Witch,” who brings them each a $10 toy and tosses all that candy in the garbage. > > And she doesn’t even bring any in for her non-chemical-phobic coworkers. Bitch. :mad: Well, if she’s gotta be crazy, at least she is fair about it, and finds a way to maintain the whimsy. Beats the heck out of those who just toss it in the trash with a nutrition lecture. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/76 "2013-11-05T15:04:33Z")
Very true. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-child-is-in-my-opinion-moderately-obese-and-should-not-be-consuming-sugar-and-treats/672685/77 "2013-11-05T23:31:25Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > One of my friends has an orthodontist who buys the candy from his patients for $2 per pound. He then donates it for the troops. I assume they have some method of shipping it off to Afghanistan without the chocolate melting. . . There was a story on the local news about a dentist who bought the candy from his patients, too - that’s where I learned that some parents just toss their kids’ candy. What a world we live in. So, next year, I’ll just give out the cheapest candy I can find. 🙂 [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=3)