I’m a teacher. Our school adopted a great online book program, myon.com, filled with books for kids to pick from and it reads the books out loud. But there is a book called “I Know Someone Who is Obese.” It goes like this:



Do you know someone who is obese? You may know someone who is obese. Children who are obese are much bigger than the other children in class. People who are obese may find it hard to play active games.



Captions: It is good for everyone to have friends (children together) and An overweight person needs to eat more healthy food (boy sitting at table frowning at salad).



People who are obese may have to be careful about what they eat. They may often feel tired because they do not sleep well.



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The rest of the book contains admonition against sweets and advice to be more active. It says that genetics play a partial role along with bad habits learned from parents. I mostly had a problem with the beginning portion I typed in here. I think it promotes stereotypes; children are unlikely to notice the “may” and it is basically implying fat kids all have these problems because of their fat.

-crumpledppr