Children's Book About Dieting Causing Controversy

Message of the book...be parents and make your kids be active little squids, not world champion Wii and Xbox360 masters...........

I can understand the controversy here, But the Original idea, " Green eggs and tofu", just wasn't getting it.

Why are there so many fat kids? Because they have fat parents that they learn their eating habbits from. This book isn't a shock and it won't fix the fat problem.

They are now whinning about a diet book, is there anything they don't whine about, whinning is their favorite past time, why don't they get a life.

Limiting the number of fast food and soda commercials on television would help considerably in the help against child obesity.

So she went from Repoolickin to Democrat???

Years ago I contacted a chain retailer of kids' educational games over a Titanic board game, and what do you think the object was? To rescue the most passengers? To be the first to get your passengers to the nearest safe harbor? No. It was to upgrade your stateroom to be able to get a seat on the lifeboat. (In other words, be rich enough to be worthy of rescue.) They reviewed the game in a monthly product meeting, agreed with me, and pulled it from store shelves nationwide. That was NOT a message any kid needed to learn. It does matter, and if we want better future generations, we have to pay attention.

I have seen this book and I definitely think that it is mostly harmless if in bad taste(pun intended). But I don't think a book is going to have a huge affect on anything and most likely the attention these parents and critics gave to this book will make children curious and have much worse affect on the children's well being than the book itself.
If the parent and critics really want to tackle obesity they will need to tackle the food industry and somehow lower the cost of healthy food, eating a well balanced diet cost about three times more than eating an unhealthy one. Also nutritional education in schools is necessary if we are doing to want long term results. So children really understand the difference between Coca-Cola and Diet Coca-Cola (which we are slowly discovering is much worse for you than regular soda) and all these 100 hundred calorie snack packs are not actually going to help you live a healthy life. I think with all the diet crazes(especially involving celebrities) that there is genuine confusion about how to eat.

One third of all American children are obese. This is due to a combination of eating food that is bad for you and a lack of exercise. We need to get kids exercising and eating healthy food. One thing parents can demand is that schools stop selling/serving sugary soft drinks, and fattening foods. We are paying for this with our tax dollars and do have a say in what is fed to our youngsters!

Ouch! Parents get all the blame! I agree parents need to toughen up and put their foot down with their kids (and themselves) and lead a better example by exercising and eating better food, but lets face it, who has the time?! Especially with so many younger parents, people work, some have school, and then a mountain of school activities with their children. Not to mention the cost of eating better, two people, without a child, working full time jobs at minimum wage are STILL BELOW THE POVERTY LINE. Add a kid and boom, $2.50 happy meal night it is. We need to take back our time, downsize, and focus on what we really need. (Btw, this book above all else, sounds boring, it won't turn a kids head away from ninja turtles...which we also don't have a lot of)

Eating constantly IS a disorder.

Eat the burger Maggie, its better than the schools teaching you about the gay lifestyle as normal, so stay home and eat that burger!

Give me an obese kid, its easier to help them than an adopted kid by same sex 'parents'

Does "Maggie" feel better when she is thinner? If so, then it is OK. Not because "others", think she should be, but if "she" feels better about herself the book is OK.

I will buy Maggie goes on a diet, long before I buy Maggie finds Irene and falls in love!

What would be better? Maggie Goes on a Killing Spree and gets revenge on all the kids that made fun of her. I don't have an issue on trying to teach children to eat better. But when a child sees a commercial for junk food every 7 minutes on "children's programming" that kind of tosses a monkeywrench into things, doesn't it? You want to stop childhood obesity? Then stopping advertising aimed at children HAS to be part of it. You don't Joe Camel in ads? Then get Ronald McDonald out too. He is just as dangerous. Why is this so hard to comprehend?

Raising obese kids may help keep Social Security solvent because many will pay into it but not live long enough to collect social security themselves. Yes, you are free to be heavy but being heavy may not really be free. I am 64 and have already lost several high school classmates who were obese.

One of the arguments that the GOP uses to cut Food Stamps even further is the numbers of overweight folks on welfare. They conveniently forget that a poor diet contributes to obesity, so that in reality; cutting aid further will make the situation even worse. Publicizing a book such as this right now is a way the Right brings up a topic and then uses it to cut more services for those who need it the most.

Recall folks; that a poor diet causes obesity. And with one out of four kids now living in poverty; a proper healthy diet is out of reach of many folks.

The focus of the book should be how the child herself feels better physically, not about popularity. It just sounds badly written to me. But regardless, you don't like it, don't buy it.