Chewing the Fat
By ATWadmin On April 14th, 2007Have you ever noticed how scientists have this uncanny knack of providing excuses for human failings? When they are not predicting environmental doom through global warming – with studies that just happen to be funded by governments (wink, wink!), they seek to justify totally unacceptable living habits and peculiarities.
For example, take a child that is totally out of control because it has no conception of discipline. Combine it with the fact that it has had far too few thrashings (if any) during its miserable, pointless existence, and there you have it: ADHD. I have a cure for ADHD. It’s called the cane! The latest one is the justification for the plethora of fat gits we see wobbling around the streets and lanes of the UK and elsewhere. It’s all to do with a ‘fat gene’ (ROFL).
Some people have always had a greater propensity for weight gain than others. You don’t need to have you head stuck in a test tube to work that one out! However, the ‘chubs’ brigade will now sit back and blame their complete absence of any form of self-control on Mother Nature. Poppycock! People are fat because they stuff themselves with food. With the exception of Irish republicans, the orifice at the top end of the body is bigger than the one at the bottom. There were no fat people in Dachau!
Fat people look as repulsive as their anorexic counterparts. There is nothing more emetic than seeing great Dunlop tyres of flab cascading over trousers that have to be practically worn around the top of the legs to ensure the belt can fasten. You want to lose weight! Eat less and exercise more; show some……..wait for it……..SELF-DISCIPLINE! I know the concept of ‘discipline’ is anathema these days (internally or externally), but try it. It will work. Don’t use the Professor Honeydews of this world to rest on your adiposal laurels.
Andrew,
It isn’t pleasant to speculate on the relative sizes of people’s orifices but I don’t agree with what you said about orifices above!
Henry VIII was pretty fat (I know, I’ve seen him in a couple of movies!) and he still managed to found the Church of England. I’m sure other famous people managed to be fat and self-disciplined at the same time.
‘Fatman Bursts!’ (news headline in The Sun.C.1970s)
Forget about Atkins and South Beach etc. Its a really simply formula to lose weight.
If calories used>calories eaten = Weight loss
If calories eaten>calories used = Weight gain
So, exercise more, and stop eating all the fuckin pies you fat bastards!
thanks, that’s really subtle…
Forecast,
The situation is complicated by the fact that calories are absorbed differently by different people and secondly how a person uses calories can often depend on factors beyond a person’s control like what kind of job he / she has, what’s his home situation like and stuff like that.
Mind you, I’m not defending obesity in general. I’m just saying we can’t blame every single fat person for being fat.
I am a fat bastard and I quite like it! Except the world is built for you little people and not always comfortable
I mean we can’t all be Napolean (casts knowing glance at he who can’t be named because it offends)
Andrew McCann
Agreed. ADHD is a bunch of made up phooey. Parents have an instant excuse for their appallingly behaved offspring and the medical establishment gets to enjoy itself by drugging children.
Frankly, I’m not sure dyslexia exists, unless it translates as ‘middle class illiteracy’.
As for the fat gene, I guessed already what the important bit of the news would be for the researchers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6547891.stm
"The team does not yet know exactly what the FTO gene does or how the different variants work to influence body weight. But they hope further research to understand the gene may lead to the unravelling of the basic biology of obesity."
The begging bowls are out already.
Message from Aileen who is unable to post directly:
Andrew I cannot let this pass unchallenged!
"For example, take a child that is totally out of control because it has no conception of discipline. Combine it with the fact that it has had far too few thrashings (if any) during its miserable, pointless existence, and there you have it: ADHD. "
No there you do not have ADHD!!!!!!! Do you think Churchill "had far too few thrashings (if any) during" HIS "miserable, pointless existence " as a child. If so, then maybe we should thank God for it!
"I have a cure for ADHD. It’s called the cane! "
No you do not! It would need to be a hell of a trashing that would effect the neurological networks generally held to behind the condition. If ADHD was simple the lack of thrashing how come Ritalin manages the symptoms for so many children?
Although I have ADD (with more hypoactivity – daydreaming than hyperactivity) do have episodes of ADHD and am all too well aware than a few wee changes in my neurological profile would have me a full blown ADHD and if so it would not me my fault nor the fault of my upbringing.
That is not to say that there are not over diagnosis of ADHD (plus an under diagnosis of ADD with Hypoactivity)
MR,
Fully agree.
ADHD or Aspergers and some of the other disorders are serious issues and can wreak havoc in an otherwise well ordered family.
I slightly agree with Andrew that lack of discipline is a real problem.
I also know two families (i.e. close friends), one with 3 kids, and the other with 6. Both families have good and fair discipline, and one child in each with ADHD. In one of the cases, with the right treatment and support, the child ended up with an A in the 11+ and is now doing very very well in grammar.
Its not just a myth I’m afraid, although I have no doubt too, that there are kids there who don’t have ADHD, but it is being used as an excuse for poor discipline.
<Q>MR,
Fully agree.</Q>
Joc – it wasn’t my post , I was posting for Aileen.
Aileen
ADHD was first diagnosed by Dr Robert Spitzer. Be wary of anything with this man’s name to it. As recently as 1973 he believed that homosexuality was a mental disorder. In fact, he’s made a very good living out of classifying mental disorders.
As to why Ritalin (or Methylphenidate, to give it its real name) controls the ‘symptoms’ of ADHD in so many children – of course it does, it’s a very powerful mind-altering drug. Ritalin is nothing more than a chemical baby-sitter and ever more doctors realise this. One day we’ll have a general acceptance that this dreadful practice of drugging children was a cop out to avoid addressing problems brought on by bad homes, diets, schools, parents and, especially, allowing childrens’ unformed minds to become mesmerised by TVs and computers.
Froim Aileen :
Pete
Did Churchill have "bad homes, diets, schools, parents and, especially, allowing childrens’ unformed minds to become mesmerised by TVs and computers. "?
I wish I was young enough to have my unformed mind memmerised by computers and I was about 8 when we first got a TV. I do’t think I can put my ADD down to "Tea Time with Tommy", "Badgerwatch" and The Interlude! (That soooooo ages me
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My non ADD sibling has had the same home diet, primary school and parents as I.
BTW I am not advocating ritalin.
ADD is all too real as is ADHD and I don’t really care about who first diagnosed it or if he got it wrong when he did.
Unlikley to be able to respond further to this thread
Fidgety boys are as natural as grass
hyperative boys are even more natural
if you want little boys to sit in their seats then teach them something that interests them dont feed them drugs
teachers want manequins not people and parents seem to willing to oblige