From: lee de cesare [tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:47 AM
To: 'doretha.edgecomb@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'candy.olson@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'April Griffin School Board Campaign'; Jack Price; 'jennifer.falliero@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'carol.kurdell@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'susan.valdez@sdhc.k12.fl.us'
Cc: 'jennifer.falliero@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'marilynbrown@tampatrib.com'
Subject: Young Lives At Risk: Our Overweight Children (washingtonpost.com)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/childhoodobesity/index.html?hpid=topnews
I don’t know why it’s not ok to tell people that they are overweight. Medical people are exempt from the practice of avoiding this verboten subject of unpleasant truth, however. I am a registered nurse in NY, Minnesota, and Florida. My nursing state-board scores make me able to gain registration in any state in the union. So I can talk freely about the health hazards of obesity.
Obese people injure their health and cut years off their lives. The result of being fat is not only morbidity but bloated health-care costs that everybody shares. Moreover, fat people feel terrible about themselves, especially young people.
The people at the head of the school system should be role models for the students in this area.
The school board should encourage Principal Orr at my alma mater HHS to walk at lunch time around the football field instead of eating and encourage overweight kids to walk with him. He must weigh over 400 pounds and snorts when he walks. His poor heart is protesting.
Ms. Elia has gained back her weight; ditto Susan Valdez; April Griffin needs to lose weight, Dr. Lamb is a walking heart attack. La Kurdell could take off some pounds; ditto Edgecombe. Candy Olson has a pot belly that one usually sees on skid-row drunks. And speaking of bellies: the beer belly is nothing but fat. The beer belly will disappear if the person loses weight.
Jennifer Falliera is the only person in normal weight range on the podium besides Gonzalez and the two guys at the end—with Otero’s weight being in the questionable range. Falliera's morals are shoddy, but her weight is fine. La Falliera will doubtless live to a ripe old age and ensnare many a hapless fellow. I can see her being the geriatric femme fatale of record in some assisted-living facility or nursing home.
The reason the board doesn’t touch the problem of childhood obesity’s deadly toll is that its members would be walking hypocrites.
The board ignores this problem with the same assiduity as it avoided looking at the truth in the crucifixion of Mr. Erwin.
I listened to Ms. Griffin and others laud the cafeteria lady the other night. But I hear that the food in the cafeteria is awful.
Bottom line: Lose weight, board members, and start a program for overweight students. The students are watching you. Me too.
Lee Drury De Cesare, R.N.
2 comments:
This posting made me laugh, because I remember a long time ago when you first started blogging and how you used that picture and said the cat was Elia.
Guilty as charged. The devil made me do that. In fact, I still think the cat looks like Elia. lee
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