New Children's Book Labeled "Dangerous" By Diet Guru

I do not endorse this book, I have not read the book, I have not seen the book.

I condemn the response of the so-called "diet guru."

The founder of Britain's top weight loss organization has called a book about the story of a short overweight girl who diets and becomes the school soccer star "an outrage".

The book, Maggie Goes on a Diet, written and self-published by Paul Kramer, is aimed at pre-teens with 'Maggie', the character, portrayed as a chubby, round jumper-wearing cartoon figure with orange pigtails holding up a tiny pink dress and looking wistfully at a skinny version of herself in the mirror. The book has just been unveiled on Amazon and is soon to be made available from other booksellers.

Alison Wetton, CEO of All About Weight, labels the book as a:

"Dangerous weapon promoting the message of body dissatisfaction among a highly vulnerable age group.

This is the wrong way to spread the message despite acknowledging children's needs for more encouragement to be active and eat healthily. In her view it would simply encourage youngsters to concentrate on their body image, which is linked to a variety of appalling consequences like depression, eating disorders and bullying."

Kids ought to be dissatisfied with things.

If you do crappily at school, you should be dissatisfied with your performance and do better.

If you are a fat piglet, you should be dissatisfied with your body.

This Wetton POS, wants to keep kids fat into older age, probably so she has can keep being a guru by perpetuating harm to kids, IMHO.

When she has milked the system completely at the expense of others, then off she goes leaving a trail of fat, sick older kids and adults so the process can continue and another jerk can profit.

F**k you, Wetton.