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Biblethumper
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Location: Busan, Korea
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 Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 12:10 am Post subject: Korean kindergarten teachers keep stuffing fat kids |
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Is this a cultural thing? I have two seven-year-old boys whose wrists are disappearing under more than baby fat, but my Korean assistant teacher keeps giving them more rice whenever it looks like their tray is in danger of getting empty. The children get plenty enough food for health and energy: why would she want to keep them getting fatter?
Last year I had a girl student who was sometimes subtly ostracized because her enormous bulk was unsightly to the other girls in the class. Her mother even asked the kindergarten assistant to give her less food and fewer snacks, but she kept on trying to give her more. |
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maximmm
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 6:42 pm Post subject: Re: Korean kindergarten teachers keep stuffing fat kids |
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| Biblethumper wrote: |
Is this a cultural thing? I have two seven-year-old boys whose wrists are disappearing under more than baby fat, but my Korean assistant teacher keeps giving them more rice whenever it looks like their tray is in danger of getting empty. The children get plenty enough food for health and energy: why would she want to keep them getting fatter?
Last year I had a girl student who was sometimes subtly ostracized because her enormous bulk was unsightly to the other girls in the class. Her mother even asked the kindergarten assistant to give her less food and fewer snacks, but she kept on trying to give her more. |
You know those super obese peeps in the US and other countries?
I've seen a few documentaries - and their daily food intake is not unlike that of a cow (only with plenty of proteins and such). This food is usually given to them by their parents/relatives. I'm not sure who has a bigger problem - the person who keeps eating to become so obese, or the person who keeps feeding them. Essentially, it takes 2 people with major mental conditions to get to the super-obese stage (considering that super-obese people at some point stop being able to move on their own).
Perhaps your Korean assistant teacher has that sort of condition. |
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Weigookin74
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| Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, the shoe is on the other foot. No longer are westerners poked and prodded and told they are very fat. My how times have changed over the last decade or so. Lol. |
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Chaparrastique
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:22 am Post subject: Re: Korean kindergarten teachers keep stuffing fat kids |
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| Biblethumper wrote: |
my Korean assistant teacher keeps giving them more rice ...
she kept on trying to give her more. |
"Koreans have voracious appetites, and their powers of absorption are remarkable, as indeed they ought to be, for it is the great object of every mother to develop in her children a large capacity for food".
-Constance Tayler 1894
"The merit of a meal is not so much quality as quantity, and from infancy onwards the one object in life is to give the stomach as much capacity and elasticity as possible...I have seen Koreans eat more than three pounds of solid meat at one meal"
- Isabella bird 1895 |
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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:51 pm Post subject: Re: Korean kindergarten teachers keep stuffing fat kids |
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| Chaparrastique wrote: |
| Biblethumper wrote: |
my Korean assistant teacher keeps giving them more rice ...
she kept on trying to give her more. |
"Koreans have voracious appetites, and their powers of absorption are remarkable, as indeed they ought to be, for it is the great object of every mother to develop in her children a large capacity for food".
-Constance Tayler 1894
"The merit of a meal is not so much quality as quantity, and from infancy onwards the one object in life is to give the stomach as much capacity and elasticity as possible...I have seen Koreans eat more than three pounds of solid meat at one meal"
- Isabella bird 1895 |
이 선경 - Sonya Thomas
aka - The Black Widow |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 4:07 am Post subject: Re: Korean kindergarten teachers keep stuffing fat kids |
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| The Cosmic Hum wrote: |
이 선경 - Sonya Thomas
aka - The Black Widow |
Hey, she's a professional competitive eater. She's not an average person, let alone an average Korean.
Anyway, I think the girl is suffering from leptin deficiency. Robert Lustig talked about that in his talks about how sugar is killing us. She needs to go to hospital ASAP. |
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Biblethumper
Joined: 15 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| If they keep feeding him like a pig for market, then I will start making him climb stairs during his breaktime. A big appetite can make for a very strong man if the food goes toward muscles instead of sitting on his fat ass. Better an ox than a pig. |
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andrewchon
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Biblethumper wrote: |
| If they keep feeding him like a pig for market, then I will start making him climb stairs during his breaktime. A big appetite can make for a very strong man if the food goes toward muscles instead of sitting on his fat ass. Better an ox than a pig. |
You may get charged for child-abuse if you do that. If the child doesn't know that you mean well, and his parents doesn't know that you mean well, then you just end up looking like a bully. Be careful. |
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