I was sworn at most egregiously in a PM by WYSIWYG for 'fat bashing' and heavens, if anyone took my cooments about self-important obese children claiming to be our messiahs as fat bashing, please, please know that it wasn't.

I have been cursed all my life with a sensitivity to weight having been goaded into anorxia by a weight conciouss mother who chided me 'FAT FAT FAT" whenever I put a morsel of food in my mouth. it made for a lucrative (but brief) modeling career and lots of long term health problems (ealry onset osteoporosis, kidney deficiency etc). Then, at age 29, I was very ill and placed on steroids for a year to combat infections. i ballooned up 60 pounds. Then I really got it from my Mum. "FAT FAT FAT!" she would say. As soon as I got better, I dropped the weight. Cllr and Champagne Carol have a photo of me and can attest that I am neither stick thin nor obese.

However, I have worked with the Morbidly Obese at a local Charity, getting them free treatment (not stomach stapling, more realistic treatment). My first patient case began at close to 700 pounds and has been steady in the high 200s for years, god bless him. My second case died in the ER. That was very hard. She weighed 650 ppunds and her heart gave out.



My point regarding the Indigo kids was this:

They, their parents, and their proponents say they are the next stage of eveolution, immune to diease and the hope for our future. We are told they are better than we are and have all the big answers. My only point was, if they have all the answers, why isn't one of them the cure for their morbid obesity? Those poor kids featured on CNN aren;'t likely to live the long and healthy lives they believe they are destined for if they continue on their path as morbidly obese youths. They were not chubby, they were dangerously overweight.

I blame the parents myself. I blame them for fostering this sense of unreal superiority in the kids and ignoring their very real personality issues. If you read the articles, you'll see this kids are coddled, sheletered and discouraged from social interaction with any children other than "Indigos" who are their equal.

Sorry, I don't see hope for a disease free world coming from these kids. I do see some New Age Gurus making a great deal of money marketing to these deficient parents with a pathological need to feel their children are the worlds saviors.

That's it, that's all I have to say.