...Paul Kramer

Paul Kramer wrote a wonderful book called "Maggie Goes on a Diet". It is a book about a 14 year old girl who goes on a diet after kids make fun of her. After losing weight she becomes popular and good at soccer. Instantly overprotective mothers and others got riled up and pissed off because they think the message that he is sending to young girls is wrong. I would have to strongly disagree with those parents. I would also have to tell them to SHUT UP!!!! This book is necessary because there are SO many obese children in this country and the numbers will continue to grow as long as we have parents living in the land of denial. In the video below you can see that Maggie was snaking snacks and got fat, which can happen. She lost weight and people started to know her by her name, her real name I assume and not that fat girl or whatever kids are calling fat kids these days. Parents think that this could spark eating disorders in young girls, which could happen, but if so then I do not think you can blame it on a book. Stop looking for a scapegoat parents! Besides I ma sure they can look at their own botox Barbie wannabe mom and pick up a lot of things from her fad diets, constant cardio routines and doing whatever it takes to please daddy because he is the one making the money and develop bad habits, then whose fault is it hmmm? Does losing weight increase popularity? Yes! You may hate to agree with it but we all know this is true. The most popular women and men in the world, the most beautiful women in the world, as voted on by other people, are usually young, fit or thin, and that leads to their popularity. Ugly and fat people have to become smarter and funnier than everyone else just to get half as far as a pretty person, this is just a fact of life that we have to live with. If anything this book can be a life saving tool for some chubby little girl or boy who gets teased and bullied. Parents stop trying to control every situation for your children. By doing so you are only making them weaker and less prepared for the harsh real world that they will enviably have to face. If you keep coddling them then expect for them to be 34 and living at home with you with no plan of ever leaving. I am giving Paul Kramer 2 Digits Up and I think these mad moms need to take a chill pill, maybe with the wine that we all know they consume by the bottle, read the book and apply it to your children's life.

...C.J. Senter

C.J. Senter is a 10 year old...with workout video... C.J. started working out five years ago when his football coach told him and his teammates to go home over a weekend and get some exercise. He did some push-ups and sit-ups and loved it. Not too long after, he saw a P90X infomercial and loved that too. He's been working out ever since. C.J. does his own routines three times a week, after school and homework. With so many overweight and obese adults and children in America this seems like a good thing. I for some reason am not jumping on board. In an interview C.J. had this to say to a reporter who was in disbelief.

"It feels great," C.J. says by phone from his Georgia home. "I love staying fit and healthy."

But wait a minute. Research shows kids shouldn't be touching weights until at least age 15.

"I don't use weights," C.J. says.

Not even bench press?

"I don't bench press," he says. "It's not good for kids."


Surely he's on some insane diet, right? His dad feeds him wheat grass and cow brain, perhaps?

"I'm not on a diet," C.J. says. "I eat everything."





He teaches kids at a local gym his routines and that is all good. I for some reason am still not on board. I do not like when parents exploit their children and I feel like this is just that. His main goal in life is to become a football player int he FL. It may or may not happen, the odds are against him but you never know. While I love the idea of getting fat kids into shape I just hate the fact that this looks like a hungry parent trying to make money off of their child. For that reason alone I am going to give C.J. Senter a Digit Down.

...Americans

Hey America! Why are you so fat!!!!!!!!? Less than 20 years ago no state had an obesity rate over 20%, not anymore! Now all but one state, Colorado, has a rate lower than 20%, and even they are at 19.8% I do not understand how a nation with million of jobless people can still find money to eat, and eat poorly enough to get and stay obese. Look at these numbers:
Percentage of obese adults in all 50 states

•Mississippi: 34.4
•Alabama: 32.3
•West Virginia: 32.2
•Tennessee: 31.9
•Louisiana: 31.6
•Kentucky: 31.5
•Oklahoma: 31.4
•South Carolina: 30.9
•Arkansas: 30.6
•Michigan: 30.5
•Missouri: 30.3
•Texas: 30.1
•Ohio: 29.6
•North Carolina: 29.4
•Indiana: 29.1
•Kansas: 29.0
•Georgia: 28.7
•South Dakota: 28.7
•Pennsylvania: 28.5
•Iowa: 28.1
•Delaware: 28.0
•North Dakota: 28.0
•Illinois: 27.7
•Nebraska: 27.6
•Wisconsin: 27.4
•Maryland: 27.1
•Maine: 26.5
•Washington: 26.4
•Florida: 26.1
•Alaska: 25.9
•Virginia: 25.9
•Idaho: 25.7
•New Hampshire: 25.6
•New Mexico: 25.6
•Arizona: 25.4
•Oregon: 25.4
•Wyoming: 25.4
•Minnesota: 25.3
•Nevada: 25.0
•California: 24.8
•New York: 24.7
•Rhode Island: 24.3
•New Jersey: 24.1
•Montana: 23.8
•Vermont: 23.5
•Utah: 23.4
•Hawaii: 23.1
•Massachusetts: 22.3
•Connecticut: 21.8
•District of Columbia: 21.7
•Colorado: 19.8

The Southern states dominate the list thanks to their love of fried foods. Something has to be done about this. You may not believe it but this is a national security risk. The army has already lowered its standards to let people who are not in the best shape in, but in another decade we will have to do that again and again and again until we have tons of out of shaped people serving in our armed forces and the others will be able to outlast us on the battle field, our weapons can only do so much in certain areas of the world. What will it take for us to become healthier? I partly blame the food, but as we know it is also the people. The Internet and other creature comforts have created a nation of lazy lazy people. We are dumber and lazier than ever before and yet we do not seem to recognize or care. I am giving American 2 Digits Down. Get your shit together people!

...Babies

If you know me, then you know that babies...kids are not my thing. I have zero and I plan to keep it that way for a long as I live. But for those who have them or just love them I have some alarming, yes alarming, news for you, almost one-third of 9-month-olds are obese or overweight, as are 34 percent of 2-year-olds. 15.2 percent of babies were at-risk and 16.7 percent were obese. Among 2-year-olds, just under 14 percent were at-risk and almost 21 percent were obese.Obesity does not just happen overnight people. Fat kids with fat habits turn into fat teens with fat habits and then they become fat adults on "The Biggest Loser". All jokes aside this is a trend that does not seem to be going away anytime soon. We can sit here and blame everyone except ourselves, but parents, get with it! Feed your kids properly and let them play, play for at least an hour a day. I am just waiting for the day when it becomes normal for 12 year olds to drop dead at school from heart attacks. If a child can eat as much as a fat adult, that is not good. There is no such thing as "healthy" in comparison to wearing a size 38 pants or size 16 dress and you are not old enough to drive. Also remember this, the more fat you have, the faster you will reach puberty. So all of the little 7 year old boys out there with the mini weenie, that will be there for life! Fat around the belly equals estrogen, which means along with the mini weenie you will also get boobies! Try explaining to your 1st girlfriend why you have boobies and a little wiener while she is looking at you like you are the rare hermaphrodite. Fathers, your little girls will be hitting puberty at 8, and sexing at 11, pregnant by 13 and fighting for her and the babies life 9 months later. What a wonderful future we will be living in, way to go America! Get fit, get healthy people. Feed your babies properly. Food is not a tool to shut them up when they are crying. I am giving this news a Digit Down.

...Marie Claire writer Maura Kelly

This chick is getting beat up by the media and large Americans for her point of view. What is her point of view? Fat people are gross. She wrote an article in Marie Claire, "Should Fatties Get A Room?", about the new show "Mike & Molly", a show about a heavy-set couple who met at their Overeaters Anonymous group. she posed this question: "Think people feel uncomfortable when they see overweight people making out on television?" Her answer was YES. She wrote, “I think I'd be grossed out if I had to watch two characters with rolls and rolls of fat kissing each other ... because I'd be grossed out if I had to watch them doing anything. To be brutally honest, even in real life, I find it aesthetically displeasing to watch a very, very fat person simply walk across a room.” Of course people got really pissed. Marie Claire received 28,000 emails about the article, and of course they wanted her to be fired. Now what most people did not know is that Kelly was anorexic, not anymore. She feels very strongly about this issue, weight and health, and so I can see why she was probably pissed. Are we getting too comfortable with obese people on television? There are roughly 93 million overweight Americans, but we should not help the cause so much, we do not want more obese people. But back to Kelly. Maura Kelly later apologizes for her comments. Now for me that was horrible. I think you should own up to whatever you said. She should have stuck to her guns and taken the bullet. Now how can I take anything she says seriously? If you give under pressure then you never really believed in what you wrote Maura. I understand that in this economy job security is important and I guess she did not want to lose her job but if that were the case she should have written a nice little fluff piece. I am giving Maura Kelly a Digit Down for apologizing.