Tonight at 9:00 p.m. on the Food Network, Al Roker will host Childhood Obesity: Danger Zone, a special that delves into the obesity epidemic that now affects more than 12 million children in America. The special will focus mostly on children, including: a teenager who weighs 500 pounds; the public policy initiative put in place by Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee to help overweight children; and a doctor who teaches kids how to shop for healthy food.
Roker himself lost his weight through gastric bypass surgery, which, if I wanted to be a jerk I'd say makes him somewhat of a hypocrite, but ultimately he's telling kids what they need to hear, and that's a good thing.
My unsolicited advice to anyone wanting to lose weight is to throw out terms like "diet" and "exercise," as they tend to be synonymous with "eating bland food" and "having no fun whatsoever." Instead, simply change your everyday eating habits and try to find physical activities you enjoy, like bike riding, in-line skating and seducing lonely housewives. Trust me, once you've run down your tenth or eleventh fire escape you'll really start to feel that fat burning away. You can also combine all three into what I like to call the "infidelity triathlon." I'm trying to make it an Olympic event.
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3-31-2007 @ 8:12PM
Paul said...
Or, perhaps, don't try to lose weight and move for the sake of moving?
This type of special is exploitative to the extreme. It's disgusting. And, what in the world is it doing on the Food Network?
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4-01-2007 @ 1:43PM
Ashley said...
is there anyway i can get this episode ASAP on youtube or something.
pleaseee!
I'm doing a report on obesity in children for a 5page essay and I missed this show.
I feel it will really help me.
please email me at afroxashley@aol.com
if you can get it to me some way.
thankyou
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4-06-2007 @ 10:26PM
Bash said...
"epidemic". As if this were an illness. It's the result of a wealthy civilization and all you need to do is eat healthy and exercise.
The "epidemic" is a large portion of the population is _not_ that wealthy, who eats cheap food in large amounts.
If you label it "epidemic" you could also call drugs an epidemic or smoking or alcoholism.
Living healthy is more expensive and it's tiresome. That's all. The other way to handle this topic was like "Bullsh*it" with Penn and Teller did it, which I did not like and commented a couple of days ago somewhere around here :-) (too bad it's not that easy to find your own postings). It's funny that there are actually people out there who want to be accepted as being overweight (or plain and straight fat as hell). It's so funny that there is always a part of the population who embraces the total idiocy and starts campaigning for their ideas. "I like not beeing able to see my genitals" is such a great slogan. Or "I had to get a special toilet to support my weight while sh*itting". So funny. Not.
Oh food's done. Later ;-)
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