Excelling in it too, but I was also raised in a loving family where my weight was never an issue. Everybody was just glad I was even alive after everything that had happened around my birth. The bullying really started when I went to elementary school. The seizures got less, but they were still there. I started to get bullied about it, they would call me freak or fatty. I didn’t really have any friends back then. It didn’t help that my teachers singled me out too, they knew of my epilepsy, but they would still call me out in the middle of class when I was having one of my seizures. Schoolwork wasn’t really easy for me, I often forgot things, and things like math I really couldn’t phantom. I got bad grades, and my bullies would start going on about that. I didn’t really mind at the time, my family was a big support system for me, and I only experienced the mean comments at school. That was until I started to get called out on playgrounds around town too, the bullies would always be in a group, led by one boy Mac. They would come up to me, shove me around, call me names. I remember one time very well when I was wearing one of my brother’s shirts, all of my own were always uncomfortable tight and I just loved his smell, and I was walking passed the playground next to our school. Mac could always spot me from a mile away, so before I knew it I was surrounded by a group of ten. Mac started to insult my shirt, asking me if he should call me Eric from now on, for the first time I got mad. Nobody insulted my brothers. Mac just laughed in my face, until I tried to lash out at him. When I think back about it I guess that’s what he always wanted, justification for the thing he wanted to do. The group jumped at me, dragging me down to the
Facts on Child Obesity
Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2010. Similarly, the percentage of adolescents aged 12–19 years who were obese increased from 5% to 18% over the same period. In 2010, more than one third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese. Overweight is defined as having excess body weight for a particular height from fat, muscle, bone, water, or a combination of these factors.3 Obesity is defined as having excess body fat. Overweight and obesity are the result of “caloric imbalance”—too few calories expended for the amount of calories consumed—and are affected by various genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors.
SOURCE:http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/obesity/facts.htm
ground, they started to tear at my clothes and I could hear the fabric rip I started to scream, but that just provoked them and they started to throw punches and kicks at my body. I remember walking into the kitchen, bleeding, my brother’s shirt ripped and dirty, and when my mom and brother came rushing up to me, I just started to cry really loud and apologizing to my brother because I felt terribly guilty his shirt was torn beyond compare. After that encounter I started to withdraw myself, I would stay inside more, and every morning I would get up with a twist in my stomach. When high school started, I had a little faith. I mean it was going to be a lot bigger than my old school, and people were going to be older and I wouldn’t have to be in the same class as Mac anymore. Unfortunately is was exactly the same. I lost some weight in the summer vacation, but it didn’t matter. To people I was still that freakishly fat kid, and