A diet book for kids

[Leanne]

Chubby kids can indeed be healthy -- in fact, the BMI bullshit puts quite unrealistic expectations on a lot of kids who are just naturally a bit bigger than their peers. It's not race-adjusted either, so we have a lot of Pacific Islanders here who are considered obese even though they're perfectly fine, active and fit. And of course there's nothing worse than watching The Biggest Loser or its ilk when some mega-tubby cries like a little bitch because he can't stay away from the fried chicken and gets thrown out, so shows like that make fat people even more the target of ridicule.

Maybe we just need to stop the attention on weight altogether. It's possible that things might even out if we stop making special categories for body shapes or skin colours or speech impediments or foot sizes or whatever else people get teased for, and just let kids be kids.

Oh, except keep teasing the ginger kids, that's funny.