Devil's Advocates

A manager once told me that if you don't have someone complaining about you, you aren't doing your job.

Well, we have a lot of outlying opposition. We have those who peripherally disagree with us as well as those who blatantly argue.

Something to remember, however, is that they are trying to make their point every bit as much as those who agree: someone somewhere is saying the same thing about us, because WE are the opposition.

Anything posted on this part of the blog is not meant to embarrass, upset or hurt any reader, but merely educate on what we are up against. This part of the site will include everything from Nicole Arbour's rant on fat people to finances. If it does illicit an unintended reaction, please do not be bashful, speak up. If we hurt someone inadvertently, we will have failed in our mission. We want to offer you the opportunity to see the differing opinions, and nothing more. Therefore, as always, please comment on any and all segments and posts that show up! I look forward to talking to you!


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In case you haven't watched the above video, it is a horrendous display of judgment which has had both backlash and support. In short, she calls fat people lazy, slow and a bunch of other things that could cause serious problems to someone with an eating disorder or even poor self-esteem.

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I struggled with where I should post this commercial. But finally decided it was a devil's advocate category because it demonstrates that the man's obesity was his own choosing, which goes exactly AGAINST what we are trying to say. It shows him being overweight and overfed. Not always by his doing, after all, how can a kid make the choice to eat. But it also shows his mom saying that french fries were all that he would eat. I'm not a parent but having worked with kids on several occasions, I understand what it's like trying to make a kid eat. In the end, you give them what they will eat (especially at the high-chair age) because the alternative is frustration and a still-hungry child. While this ad does not exactly pertain to what we are accomplishing (being that healthy foods are not always easy to come by), it does lead me to yet another point, which we are including and that is training on a healthy lifestyle. Kids learn what we teach them. While you don't always have a choice in what goes in their stomachs, you can always be educated on what SHOULD go in their stomachs.

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