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Is Shame the Answer to Childhood Obesity?

The creative geniuses behind the anti-childhood obseity ads featuring Barbie certainly seem to think so.

Perhaps the Active Life Movement, the (well-intentioned) organization behind the ads, could benefit from this Onion video--a roundtable discussion of the question, "Should We Be Shaming Obese Children More?"--which uncovers the pros and cons of teaching kids through negative reinforcement.

(Hint to the Active Life Movement: the Onion was kidding!)

Photo: New York Times

Related Post:Barbie Teaches Kids About Childhood Obesity


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Comments

 

mtlmama said:

too funny!!!!

February 18, 2009 2:19 PM
 

mccn said:

But, in all seriousness - here's a good blog on talking to kids if you are concerned about their habits.

fatfightertv.com/.../how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-obesity

February 19, 2009 12:28 PM
 

Notsuoh said:

If only I was shamed more as a child...I wouldn't be trying to get to a decent healthy weight today...sigh

February 19, 2009 3:43 PM

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Hannah Tennant-Moore is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best Buddhist Writing (2008); The Sun; Guantanamo: Inside the Prison, Outside the Law; Tricycle; Turning Wheel (as the winner of the Young Writers Award); and elsewhere.

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