ThatFatGirl
Why am I still here?
I've been watching TLC this weekend and keep seeing an ad for a new program called "Honey We're Killing the Kids."
Here's a description from their marketing company:
TLC's series Honey, We're Killing the Kids! offers parents a revealing look into the future. Right now their kids have incredibly poor exercise and eating habits. But when a professional nutritionist makes parents face what their kids will look like at age 40 if they maintain this lifestyle, they are literally scared into changing the future of their little ones." The "magic" transformation is done with state-of-the-art graphics.
The new commercial shows a pudgy kid turning into a 40 year old fat, bald man via special effects before the parents' eyes complete with gasps and shocks and a very embarassed looking fat man. I feel sad for the guy each time I see this ad.
I imagine parents watching this program immediately putting their kids on a strict, drastic diet. What will that do? Make their kids fatter and set them up for a lifetime of yo-yo dieting if their experience is anything like mine.
Apparently the program originated on the BBC as TLC programs often do and was successful there. I have a feeling this program will be very offensive to anyone who tries to live their life as a happy, healthy fat person. I'm gonna do my best to avoid it.
TLC is the network that brings us rebroadcasts of "Half Ton Man" and "The 600 lb Woman" ad nauseum. Their parent network Discovery Channel regularly runs "I Lost It!" which more often than not features "successful" weight loss stories that at least 50% (maybe more? I quit watching the program.) of the time are stories of weight loss surgery. I'd like to see them follow-up on all of these people to see how they're doing two years later. If I wasn't so hung up on "What Not to Wear" and "Trading Spaces" I'd give up TLC altogether, but alas I can't part ways with Stacy and Clinton.
Here's a description from their marketing company:
TLC's series Honey, We're Killing the Kids! offers parents a revealing look into the future. Right now their kids have incredibly poor exercise and eating habits. But when a professional nutritionist makes parents face what their kids will look like at age 40 if they maintain this lifestyle, they are literally scared into changing the future of their little ones." The "magic" transformation is done with state-of-the-art graphics.
The new commercial shows a pudgy kid turning into a 40 year old fat, bald man via special effects before the parents' eyes complete with gasps and shocks and a very embarassed looking fat man. I feel sad for the guy each time I see this ad.
I imagine parents watching this program immediately putting their kids on a strict, drastic diet. What will that do? Make their kids fatter and set them up for a lifetime of yo-yo dieting if their experience is anything like mine.
Apparently the program originated on the BBC as TLC programs often do and was successful there. I have a feeling this program will be very offensive to anyone who tries to live their life as a happy, healthy fat person. I'm gonna do my best to avoid it.
TLC is the network that brings us rebroadcasts of "Half Ton Man" and "The 600 lb Woman" ad nauseum. Their parent network Discovery Channel regularly runs "I Lost It!" which more often than not features "successful" weight loss stories that at least 50% (maybe more? I quit watching the program.) of the time are stories of weight loss surgery. I'd like to see them follow-up on all of these people to see how they're doing two years later. If I wasn't so hung up on "What Not to Wear" and "Trading Spaces" I'd give up TLC altogether, but alas I can't part ways with Stacy and Clinton.
