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For example my son's weekly activities break down as follows Monday & Wednesday nights 1 hour class BJJ (Brazilian Jujistu) €5 per class (€10 for the week), Thursday night 1 hour Judo €5, Friday Night 1 hour … Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Ancient Dragon Dawn of the computer age is mostly responsible for obese children, all they want to do is sit playing on a computer or texting. Even their brains are getting fat due to lack of use, such as learning to do math in their head instead of on a calculator. Some day in the future man will evolve without brains due to lack of use. Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Reverend Jim Prepare yourself. Are you sitting down? Here it comes... **I completely agree with you.** There. I said it. And it felt good. >Some day in the future man will evolve without brains due to lack of use. Future? I've seen plenty of examples around already. Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by bguild > Some day in the future man will evolve without brains due to lack of use. It's not just a joke. It might actually happen. We evolved our brains thanks to the survival of the fittest in prehistoric times when we needed a large amount of cleverness just to get by, but thanks to civilization we now have far more cleverness than we need and … Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Reverend Jim Thousands of years ago the attributes that improved your chances of survival were things like intelligence, speed, agility, visual acuity, etc. Once we started to form communities the attributes that improved your quality of life, and therefore your chances of reproducing related to your usefulness to the community. If you were a superior flint … Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by minitauros Well hasn't it always been so that there is an "intellectual few" and a "following mass"? "Intellectual" here does not mean "morally just" or anything like that, just clever people. Relatively, do you think there has been any change during "all" those centuries? I don't think that we've either … Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Reverend Jim Civilization has always been a few very gifted people making advances and dragging the rest of us along behind. If you want to see a great commentary similar to what I said earlier, watch the first 10-15 minutes of the movie, Idiocracy. Th rest of the movie is pretty lame but the opening is spot on. I also suggest the short story, [The Marching … Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by jwenting Remember that "experts" have by now redefined "obese" to be "not anorexic", so it's little surprise that "experts" find that almost the entire population of the planet except those living under a famine are obese. Sells a lot of dietary supplements and expensive consults with dieticians, and gives CPS an … Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Agilemind Despite all the above claims, average IQ (at least countries where we have the records) has been increasing year on year since the 1930s. PS Idiocracy was a mediocre sci-fi hollywood movie not a documentary. PPS I've never heard of a single case of CPS taking children because they were running wild outdoors, it is the media instilled fear and a … Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Reverend Jim >PS Idiocracy was a mediocre sci-fi hollywood movie not a documentary. I didn't claim it was a documentary, or even a good film. I just said I liked the opening sequence. > it is the media instilled fear and a culture of disengagment which causes parents to restrict their children to the digital world. Do you really believe that kids are … Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by bguild > Despite all the above claims, average IQ (at least countries where we have the records) has been increasing year on year since the 1930s. IQ scores are supposed to measure your intelligence relative to the average intelligence for people of your age, so the average IQ is always supposed to be 100. If the average IQ has been going up, that … Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Agilemind > IQ scores are supposed to measure your intelligence relative to the average intelligence for people of your age, so the average IQ is always supposed to be 100. If the average IQ has been going up, that suggests a failure in testing technique more than an increase in intelligence. They have to change the IQ test/scoring method every few … Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Agilemind > Also, the 1930s is less than a hundred years in the past and evolutionary change happens generation by generation. Intelligence isn't something you can easily measure like height, so I wouldn't expect a change to be measurable in so few generations. And yet people on this tread are claiming there has been a noticable decrease since the rise… Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Reverend Jim Perhaps what we are seeing is a proliferation of people who don't bother to think for themselves rather than people who can't think. Without getting into a whole political/religious debate here, my impression (which to my knowledge hasn't been tested scientifically) is that too many people believe what they are told without bothering to think about… Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by diafol Intelligence vs Education vs Do I give a Fig If healthy diets were down to intelligence, I don't think there'd be much difference in obesity rates. If healthy diets were purely down to education, I think there'd be slightly fewer obesity cases. If healthy diets were down to "I know it's bad for me, but I don't care"... Obviously it's … Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Reverend Jim I heard about one airline that is going to start charging fares by the pound. If you weigh 200 (pounds) you get one fare. If you weigh 400 then you pay double. Re: Children's obesity a major health concern for Parents Community Center Geeks' Lounge by diafol >I heard about one airline that is going to start charging fares by the pound. If you weigh 200 (pounds) you get one fare. If you weigh 400 then you pay double. Why not? These obesitees are hiking up everybody else's air fares. Who the hell ends up being over 400 pounds anyway? What's that in stones? 28 and a half stones!! They wouldn't get up …