Thank you for your comments. They are well taken. I'm all for calling a spade a spade. It's clearly a problem.
I'll echo Cora's comments that we need to be careful with the children, more so than with the adults. I have done some research, and children who are obese are more likely to be bullied than children who are not obese. That's one of the problems with obesity.
There have been some studies done where they have shown pictures of children with different physical disabilities--obesity, maybe they're missing a limb, they have scars on their faces, or they're in wheelchairs. They ask children, “Which one of these individuals do you not want to play with?” They always pick the obese child. That's what I'm afraid of.
I want to call it what it is, but I'm afraid that the person who is obese is going to get caught in that cycle. They're not going to have friends, they're going to be stigmatized, and they're not going to be able to join in the physical activity that the other children are doing.