My formative years were spent outside of the U.S, so
hopefully you will understand my perspective and confusion about this topic.
The other day I was listening to a fit looking young woman
talk about how she did not used to eat because she was worried about being
healthy. She ended her conversation by saying, “but I do eat now; I ask for the
salad dressing on the side and will add fries”. I am sorry but that does not
sound like a healthy balanced meal to me, and I did mention that she looked like
she was in shape, yet she was still obsessing.
I am currently closer to 50 than I am to 45. Not a big deal
in my book because where I grew up I am still considered young. Imagine my
shock when a 30 something started referring himself as old, and when I shared
my age, he said, “damn you are old as #@$%!”. I was actually quite insulted by
that.
You cannot completely blame people, because society is
teaching people that this is the way it is.
We have fat shaming and body shaming of young women in K12,
if you are over 40 you are in a “protected class” to prevent discrimination.
Polls mostly want the demographic of 18 to 35; not that I miss all those
solicitations but it was really abrupt when they stopped.
Perhaps we can take a cue from other countries and not
overproduce, serve smaller portions? Perhaps PE can be true part of K12
education not an afterthought, and let us add sports into all schools
immediately and not have to wait until high school or make parents pay for
expensive outside programs.
It seems to me there are more important things we should be concerned
about, better things we can be teaching our kids. We can also learn from the experience
of those with more age, they are better than most libraries.
Just some observation from an educator
Dr Flavius A
B Akerele III
The ETeam
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