The Emotional Toll of Childhood Obesity [psychologytoday.com]

Alicia Doktor 9/21/171:25 PM

Think about these questions:

Where do people learn that it is okay to call someone fat?

Where do kids learn that calling someone fat is tacitly acceptable bullying?

Can you think of another health condition for which kids are so easily ridiculed?

Somehow, being overweight creates an open season for merciless taunting.

This is national childhood obesity awareness month. There will be all sorts of blogs and public service announcements about the problems of obesity in this nation, and special attention will be paid to the growing problems with obese youth. A lot of this will tell you things that you already know.

[For more on this story by Steven Schlozman M.D., go to https://www.psychologytoday.co...ll-childhood-obesity]

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