Well, and just in the last 3 weeks there was the case of the baby whose weight was in the 95th percentile and the family's insurance company declined to cover the baby. The baby was shown on television -- it was a perfectly round, chubby 1-year-old baby who had two lean and healthy-looking parents.
One of my nieces was a chubby baby -- in fact, one of her affectionate nicknames was "chunky monkey" -- but by about age 2 she'd dropped most of the baby fat naturally. She's now 12 and has been long, lean and lanky for years.
We clearly have an obesity crisis, and it is affecting our kids as well. No argument there. But we're starting down the slippery slope of letting weight define us -- and more dangerously, define our kids -- and issues like this just illustrate it. It's very worrisome.
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Well, and just in the last 3 weeks there was the case of the baby whose weight was in the 95th percentile and the family's insurance company declined to cover the baby. The baby was shown on television -- it was a perfectly round, chubby 1-year-old baby who had two lean and healthy-looking parents.
One of my nieces was a chubby baby -- in fact, one of her affectionate nicknames was "chunky monkey" -- but by about age 2 she'd dropped most of the baby fat naturally. She's now 12 and has been long, lean and lanky for years.
We clearly have an obesity crisis, and it is affecting our kids as well. No argument there. But we're starting down the slippery slope of letting weight define us -- and more dangerously, define our kids -- and issues like this just illustrate it. It's very worrisome.
October 23, 2009 - 10:18amThis Comment
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