so heres something:

soy-quill:

every time the BBC brings up ‘obesity in children’ it just disgusts me? it genuinely makes me fucking ill. I feel like everyones eyes are on me because of it. shut the fuck up, BBC.
okay so yeah. children are ‘obese’. children have been ‘obese’. children will be ‘obese’.

but centering a report on them/us isnt going to help for multiple reasons. especially when you show clips of a headless ‘obese’ child playing and HAVING FUN during pe. I remember a few years back one of the reporters commented that ‘obesity affects the way you run’. fuck off.

Understand that overweight children probably are being picked on because of their weight, and they still will be when they recognise THEIR OWN BODIES being shamed on NATIONAL TELEVISION by MIDDLE-AGED PEOPLE.

Children can be overweight because of their parents – weight has a rate of 77% of being passed on through genes. Don’t forget that.

And why do people focus on fat children? I’ve been fat since I was young and I’ve had virtually no health issues which HAVEN’T been related to my weight. In my high school you have skinny teenagers drinking about five energy drinks a day and not exercising. You see them eating and drinking MORE then I do and yet I still get made fun of.

The BBC carrying on reports like these every so often breaks my fucking heart when I think back to when I was younger and wanted to physically cut off every piece of fat and flab on my body, while being forced to diet by my own overweight and emotionally abusive mother (which, side note, DIDN’T work at all), and it scares me knowing that this will be a new reality for some six year old out there.

Fuck.