When schools close their doors for the summer, millions of low-income children lose access to school meals. Hunger spikes in the summer months, and so does childhood obesity when kids don't get healthy school breakfast and lunch. It's likely that this summer will even be worse for families still reeling from the recession. Fortunately, there are programs that exist that help many -- but not enough low-income children get healthy lunches when school is out.
In his comments, Rush Limbaugh suggests that children instead should seek cheap fast food or dumpster-dive to stave off hunger in the summer. Limbaugh's strained efforts to be provocative and over-the-top are neither insightful nor humorous. When the great satirist and cleric Jonathan Swift suggested in A Modest Proposal that starving Irish parents should sell their children as food to the rich, he did so with a moral purpose and moral clarity that has resonated down through the ages. When Limbaugh suggests children dumpster-dive, belittling the situation of hungry kids in America, he positions himself at the opposite end of the human spectrum from Swift. Swift's satire closes by mock-condemning such solutions as "taxing... introducing prudence and temperance... learning to love our country ... [and] quitting our animosities." Limbaugh's stance, in contrast, is to actually belittle human decency.
He hides behind his microphone spewing venom and hate, lives in his walled 40,000 square foot private village, and from the looks of him has never missed a happy meal. He is a poor excuse for a person and I'm wondering why he's still a citizen. He promised America that if health care passed he would move to Costa Rica. I was really counting on that.
“Hunger spikes in the summer months, and so does childhood obesity when kids don't get healthy school breakfast and lunch.”
The fact that children on average gain more weight trough skull holidays doesn’t mean that children eating more or that they are eating less healthy food. Some another factor is responsible for increased weight over schools holidays.
The fact is that obesity effect the great percentage of adults’ population clearly shows that the causes for obesity misunderstood.
Before any future campaign to combat obesity it is necessary to re-examine the basic science of weight gain – weight loss.
The solution for obesity is laying in the real understanding of the cause for obesity. It needs to bear in mind, that apart form last a few decades; obesity in children was unknown to any previous generation in recorded history.
The established scientists in the field of obesity and the government officials involved in prevention of obesity have to confront with the fact that the basic science of obesity is wrong! …. Let’s talk about that!
The basic science of obesity is embarrassing wrong! … Let’s talk about that... After that we can talk why children are more affected with obesity over school holidays and as well we can talk about all other issues related to the cause, prevention and cure for obesity.
Luke Tunyich
http://www.biomechanicsandhealth.com/
Obesity is more prevalent among children from lower socioeconomic background, but on the other hand autism is just one of many conditions that are more prevalent among children from higher socioeconomic background.
Before any conclusion why children from lower socioeconomic background are more affected with obesity let’s talk about the basic science of weight gain/weight loss.
I guess he got you.
I didn't know his comment existed until I read your blog.