Children's Health & Fitness ? Critic's Notebook: TV's Focus On ...

May 18th, 2012 by Len Saunders

From the LA Times?..

I was a pioneer of childhood obesity.

By the time I was a junior in high school, I weighed more than 200 pounds. I was a fat kid before being a fat kid made you the topic of a national conversation and the first lady?s pet project, back when Gatorade still tasted gross and no one knew how many calories there were in anything.

For most of my childhood, I was the only fat girl in my class ? I can still name the other two fat girls in my grade. Now, fat kids fill the playground and the high school bleachers, including a whole new breed of fat girl who wears skin tight jeans and mid-riffs and dares anyone to say anything. Seeing them, I must admit I am torn between despair and envy.

I never expected to see my childhood reflected on television ? overweight young characters are still rare even post-?Hairspray? ? but there they are, my modern equivalents, on ?Jamie Oliver?s Food Revolution,? ?Too Fat for 15 and Fighting Back? and, most recently, HBO?s multi-pronged documentary ?The Weight of the Nation,? all part of a collective attempt to address America?s childhood obesity epidemic.

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