Cookie Monster

Ok so Bren read me something last night about how Cookie Monster is essentially going to learn how to eat cookies in moderation due to the new sesame street kick on health this season. I for one am very dissapointed. There was a lot of talk saying that childhood obesity is higher than ever and that it is a way to teach kids that "cookies are a sometimes food"... NO. What the hell is this world coming to that even kids tv show characters can't eat tons of cookies anymore. Ok here is my real WS approved problem with this. First of all... the government has been making such a big deal about the amount of people who are obese etc... but what they don't tell you is that they changed the standards on obesity not so long ago and using their standards my father is obese and believe me if you met him you would think that that was obsurd. So yeah obesity rates are climbing and the requirements for being considered obese are dropping... hmmm correlation there maybe. Ok so moving on to argument two, we already live in a culture that is absolutely saturated with body image problems due to media, 7 year olds dieting to be as thin as the models they see, people having gastric bypass surgery and literally stapleing their stomachs to lose weight. Do we really need to add to this? I think not. These inane ideas about putting puppet monsters on essentially a diet is teaching kids the wrong message. It's making kids that are 5 and under think about what they eat and what it can do to your body... essentially making them a new generation of kids that are going to grow up with even higher rates of eating disorders and such because of poor selfesteem and body image distortion. I never thought I would see the day when sesame street was contributing to this phenomena. ahhh it's just not right. We want our lovable monsters from old school television back on... they didn't do us any harm!!