Combined with the fact that any criticism of overweight conditions is immediately condemned as "fat shaming". While I understand there are health circumstances which cause obesity, most cases are not. It's now generational. Fat parents raise fat kids and no criticism is warranted under today's standards. I think back to a 5th grade field trip I chaperoned to a Suns game. One of my son's classmates was a girl who was morbidly obese. She could barely manage the steps to her seat. The poor girl had fat rolls on her back - in the 5th grade! My son told me her entire family, who gorged on fast food nearly everyday, was the same. In my opinion, that is a situation which warrants intervention. How is condemning that child to a lifetime of health problems any different than her parents allowing her to smoke cigarettes?

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