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whoa, whoa, HANG ON
okay, so, this story, blah blah blah, kids are overweight and unhealthy, not really news.
two things, though:
*sound of buzzer* maybe the reporter is just not so good at communicating the tone, but speaking as someone who used to be that kid? no, the gym teacher shouldn't tease a student who's worn out from running. "i don't understand how you can be tired" means "something must be wrong with you." way to go, cindy.
*boggle* from 18 to 4 in one year?! i hope that's a typo and she's gone from 18 to 14, because am i crazy, or is that just like among the least healthy things i've ever heard?
two things, though:
During a Wednesday after-school session at Matsunaga, [physical education teacher Cindy] Lins [who is preparing 200 kids for some event in Rockville] cheered every student who rounded the edge of the schoolyard to complete a lap.
"I know you're going to be running in college, I just know it," she told one student.
"How in the world can you be pooped? I don't understand that," she teased when another girl jogged by slowly.
*sound of buzzer* maybe the reporter is just not so good at communicating the tone, but speaking as someone who used to be that kid? no, the gym teacher shouldn't tease a student who's worn out from running. "i don't understand how you can be tired" means "something must be wrong with you." way to go, cindy.
At Forestville Elementary School in Great Falls, third-grade teacher Anne Collins developed her own wellness policy last year after she got engaged and decided to lose weight.
She began walking each day at recess and invited students to join her. After stepping up her workout routine outside school as well, she has gone from a size 18 to a size 4.
*boggle* from 18 to 4 in one year?! i hope that's a typo and she's gone from 18 to 14, because am i crazy, or is that just like among the least healthy things i've ever heard?
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it could be bulimia. :-/
seriously, though -- thinking about it more, i don't know how it can really be a typo where it should have been 14. i'm about a 16, and i feel like if i really turned things around, walked every day and started working out a lot, i'd be annoyed to only drop to a 12 after a solid year. but, down to a size 4? jesus. (i mean, i happen to think my frame is bigger than a size 4, and if i were starving to death and you could count my ribs i'd probably be in nothing smaller than a 6. but that's kind of beside the point. suppose size 4 is an appropriate size for this woman's bone structure, etc. -- what the hell was she doing up at size 18?!!?)
trying to work out how to phrase a letter to the editor that doesn't sound like i'm calling this third-grade teacher a package of eating disorders.
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Surely you are well aware of the substantial health risks associated with overly-rapid, overly-large weight loss, risks ranging from those as mild as temporary hair loss to those as severe as sudden acute cholecystitis requiring surgery or even death due to heart attacks caused by electrolyte imbalance. In your article, "Blahtitle" published on "Blahdate," your reporter [$name] documents [$person] as going from a size 18 to a size 4 in the span of a year. This represents a substantial and quite rapid weight loss of the sort that can in some cases trigger serious and lasting health consequences.
Given the current mania for weight loss and the tendency of younger women and girls particularly to resort to crash dieting and other attempts to lose large amounts of weight as rapidly as possible, it strikes me that an uncritical depiction of someone who has done just this is not in the public interest and may in fact be seen to endorse or promote a medically unsound practice. In the interest of promoting public health and representing modes of weight management that do not run a medically significant risk of harming your readership should readers choose to emulate the individuals whose weight-loss efforts you profile, I encourage you to consider, adopting a more fully contextualized and critical-thinking policy in regard to discussions of matters affecting the public health.
Love,
Darthfox
There you go. :)