“Nothing More Unfortunate Than To Have Soft, Chubby, Fat-Looking Children”

This is not AI fakery. Fat-is-beautiful advocates will denounce this, but there’s no disputing that JFK, who was a vigorous advocate of physical fitness, actually said this.

A 5.6.26 CDC report on child obesity says that “approximately 1 in 5 U.S. children and adolescents have obesity. Obesity affects some groups more than others, including adolescents, Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black children, and children in families with lower incomes. Health care for obesity is expensive for patients and the health care system.

“From 2017 to March 2020, the prevalence of obesity among U.S. children and adolescents was 19.7%1. This means that approximately 14.7 million U.S. youths aged 2–19 years have obesity.”