OE, NOT OERSTED(LOOK IT UP) BUT OBESITY EPIDEMIC

ON THIS NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING, POP MACHINES AND VENDING MACHINES REMAIN IN MANY SCHOOLS. THERE ARE CLASSROOM PARTIES, FOOD EVENTS, STUDENTS EATING PROVIDED LUNCHES, PRE-SCHOOL AND HEAD START PROGRAMS, AFTER-SCHOOL SNACKS, SUMMER LUNCH PROGRAMS, BOUNCING ON BIG BALLS, BUT NO RUNNING AMOK FOR PE BECAUSE PE CLASSES HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED. THERE ARE OVERWEIGHT PETS, OVERWEIGHT PARENTS AS THE NEWS REVEALS THE SCANDAL OF HUNGRY CHILDREN WHO CAN'T CONCENTRATE OR LEARN. YET GOVERNMENT SPONSORS FOOD PROGRAMS. EDUCATORS PUSH FOR MONETARY BONUSES TO STUDENTS AND PARENTS WHO ATTEND WELLNESS CLASSES, UNLIMITED SALADS, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES EVEN IF TOPPED WITH CALORIE LADEN DRESSINGS AND MANDATE BMI (BODY MASS INDEX) REPORTS AND WEIGHT CHECKS. YET SOME PARENTS THINK CHILDREN SHOULD NEVER GO HUNGRY. DO WE HAVE AN OBESITY EPIDEMIC OR AN OBESITY DILEMMA? AMERICA CANNOT EMPHASIZE HUNGER AND FEED ITSELF INTO AN OBESITY EPIDEMIC AT THE SAME TIME. APPROPRIATE ARE WORDS FROM CULTURAL OBSERVER MARK TWAIN, OUR 20TH CENTURY HUMORIST, NOTING A "COEFFICIENT OF EXAGGERATION." HOW MANY MORE TIMES MUST IT BE SHOWN THAT COMMON SENSE IS DEAD?

'’DON'T SNACK ON THAT, YOU'LL SPOIL YOUR DINNER,’ WAS HEARD WHEN ONLY BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER AND PERHAPS AN OCCASIONAL ICE CREAM, CANDY TREAT OR LATE NIGHT COCOA WERE AVAILABLE. COMMON SENSE MADE PEOPLE AWARE THAT FAT RESULTS FROM EATING TOO MUCH, YET GOOD FOOD SHOULD BE ENJOYED. APPROPRIATE IS ANOTHER CULTURAL OBSERVATION FROM A SCIENTIST, WILLIAM GILBERT IN 1600. HIS "LETTER CLOWNS, GRAMMATISTS, SOPHISTS, SPOUTERS AND THE WRONG-HEADED RABBLE," ARE STILL AROUND TODAY AS EDUCATORS AND POLITICIANS AND DO-GOOD ENGINEERS ATTEMPTING TO STEM THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC.

OUR HEDONISTIC LAND OF PLENTY, LIBERAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND UNEDUCATED PARENTING ENCOURAGES A FEEDING FRENZY ON SELF-ESTEEM. A TWO-WAY MIRROR COULD GO A LONG WAY TO SOLVE THE DILEMMA OF OUR OBESITY EPIDEMIC, OUR NATIONAL PREDICAMENT. BOTH ADULTS AND CHILDREN MUST FACE CONFLICTING UNDESIRABLES : A FUTURE OF OBESE INDIVIDUALS OR CHANGES IN EATING PATTERNS. IMPALED ON THE HORNS OF THIS DILEMMA, BY LOOKING INTO THE MIRROR, BOTH CHILDREN AND ADULTS SHOULD BE INSPIRED TO BETTER CHOICES. TO RETRIEVE PROPER PRIOR PARENTING BASED UPON COMMON SENSE, STUPIDITY MUST DIE MULTITUDINOUS, SLOW DEATHS.