How to Help A Child Lose Weight [Help a reader out!]

by Charlottebad advertising, body image, children, diets, fat, news, obesity, rants, reader questions, weight gain/lossPosted on 57 Comments

Courtesy of the State of Georgia’s new childhood obesity campaign Three hours of hysterical sobbing, a whole box of kleenex thrown and self-inflicted eye poking (yes, really) is what my third grader did when I assigned him a second sheet of math problems after he lied to me about having homework so he could go …

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Karl Lagerfield Wants to Sell You Ice Cream [And then mock you for getting fat]

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Skinny Girl Eating Ice Cream: A study in social morés. Eclipsed only by the Fat Child Eating Ice Cream tableau vivant, nothing brings out more opinions than a thin girl with a cone. Some people are jealous: “Lucky genetic freak gets to eat ice cream and still look like that?!” Others are sad: “I’ll never be …

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