Thursday, 5 December 2013

Obesity - 500lbs

This is a photo of the young 22 year old male who was turned down by planes, trains and even a cruise ship in his quest to return home from England to France — and his family says it's because he has been deemed too fat to travel. 

I'm suggesting that we include this pic in the video since we are covering obesity.

Click on the link below to learn more about how he returned home.

7 comments:

  1. That's a good idea. could use it in some other lesson for inspiration or maybe as a deterrent to students

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  2. this is an interesting story. had my attention

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    1. It is indeed interesting. I also understood that the parents are claiming that his situation may be genetic which in my view is a very rare cause of obesity.

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  3. That's interesting, can we include it in our video? Only if we don't get any critics....

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    1. We can only use the picture or we can attach some voice recording to it just to indicate that this person was unfit to travel via trains or air crafts because he was too heavy.

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    2. You know this is a very nice story to share with your students. However children can be so wicked to use this information to give a child who weighs more, jokes on his size. Nonetheless I like it.

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