The Gout Code Reviews

If you remember being a child and having the experience The Gout Code of being the different one or the odd one out, you'll probably remember at as a lonely time. 

As well as the physical health implications caused by childhood obesity, these children are teased and they are likely to be lonely. 

Even for those who go onto develop resilience, or even grow stronger from this experience, the memories will always remain.  Hoping that they will become thicker skinned adults is a risky business.  They might not.  They might end up damaged for life. 

I implore any parent or guardian who is reading this article to abandon any previous notion that they had in which they told themselves and their obese child that they are fine "just as they are."  That others should be more tolerant or that their child has a right to make their own (unhealthy) choices.  I urge you to dismiss all excuses about their, or your own inability to exercise. 

As a nation we have accepted that hitting your child is an unnecessary an largely unsuccessful form of punishment, that smoking in their presence is harmful and that telling them they are useless or stupid is disempowering.  What if we began to view the implications to their emotional development when obese, as having the same consequences as these things?  Being obese is unnecessary, harmful and disempowering. 

If what I am saying is true, then the very important question that follows, is "What are we going to do about it?"