Overweight kids face widespread stigma

More uber-crap from the uber-morons and, IMHO, the uber-killers at Yale. For examples, see here, here and here.

"Youngsters who report teasing, rejection, bullying and other types of abuse because of their weight are two to three times more likely to report suicidal thoughts as well as to suffer from other health issues such as high blood pressure and eating disorders, researchers said...

While programs to prevent childhood obesity are growing, more efforts are needed to protect overweight children from abuse, Puhl said.

'The quality of life for kids who are obese is comparable to the quality of life of kids who have cancer,' Puhl said, citing one study. 'These kids are facing stigma from everywhere they look in society, whether it's media, school or at home...'"

This is plainly and simply child abuse by negligent parents.

From the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA):

"(2) the term “child abuse and neglect” means, at a minimum, any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm;" (emphasis added)

From the mouths of babes:

"The stigmatization of overweight children has been documented for decades. When children were asked to rank photos of children as friends in a 1961 study, the overweight child was ranked last.

Children as young as 3 are more likely to consider overweight peers to be mean, stupid, ugly and sloppy..."

Perhaps this indicates that is it unnatural for people (kids) to be abusively fattened as even 3 year olds find it "odd."

"A study in 2003 found that obese children had much lower quality of life scores on issues such as health, emotional and social well-being, and school functioning..."

CHILD ABUSE. Get it?

Of course, rather than deal with abusive parents...

"The Yale-Hawaii research report recommends more research to determine whether negative stereotypes lead to discriminatory behavior, citing evidence that overweight adults face discrimination. It also calls for studying ways to reduce stigma and negative attitudes toward overweight children.

'Weight-based discrimination is as important a problem as racial discrimination or discrimination against children with physical disabilities,' the report concludes. "Remedying it needs to be taken equally seriously..."

Shut up.

However, there is a silver lining. Patience is the key.

By 2010, almost 50 percent of children in North America and 38 percent of children in the European Union will be overweight, the researchers said.

By 2011, fat, porcine people pups will be in the majority. And there will be even more fat adults. This might reverse the trend as "healthy weight" discrimination will likely dominate.

Problem solved.

Instead of gearing up to deal with the non- and soon to be solved "problem" of overweight discrimination, these idiots should get ahead of the curve and begin discussing ways to protect people who succeed at "healthy living" from the fatsos.

(Really these very dangerous people should shrivel-up and/or slither away, but they won't.)