But the cause, the US Department of Agriculture and its exploding budget of fat foods! The solution, twofold, stop all in school meals, let parents send kinds with brow bags or have them shed some weight, and second disband the Department of Agriculture. We prime the pumps at school and then watch as the fat munchkins go to fast food outlets after they get dropped off from the school bus.
As the Times notes:
... a college senior from ... learned that she had type 2 diabetes when she was 16. Her grandfather
had had both legs amputated as a result of the disease, and one of the
first questions she asked was when she would lose her legs and her eyesight.
A doctor scolded her for being fat and told her she had to lose weight
and could never eat sugar again. She left the office in tears and did
not go back; soon after, she joined the study at Columbia. Like many of
the children in the program, she did not even know how to swallow a
pill.
She believes that the disease “is not a death sentence,” she said, if
she is careful about controlling her blood sugar. But it has been a
struggle. Her family tends to be overweight, she sometimes craves sweets
and she has orthopedic problems that have required surgery and have
made it hard for her to exercise. She is also being treated for high blood pressure.
A few weeks ago, because her blood sugar shot up despite the diabetes pills she was taking, she began using insulin.
And in a few months she will be having kidney, nerve, and eye problems, then heart problems. And we will be paying. Thank God the physician at least said she was fat! Tears were not the answer, self-control was, and it requires a family effort. The problem is we consider her a victim when in reality she is a self inflicted burden on society. The child with leukemia is not at fault, while the obese teen is. And the solution is so simple, stop eating!
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