18th
December
2009
Santa’s Been Naughty
posted in - Dobbs, - Offbeat news |
The verdict is in — Santa Claus is an unhealthy, reckless role model for children all over the world. According to an article in the BMJ:
Santa made a reckless role model, noting his frequent cookie snacks, occasional cigars and refusal to don a helmet during “extreme sports such as roof surfing and chimney jumping. Santa is a late adopter of evidence-based behavior change and continues to sport a rotund, sedentary image. He promotes a message that obesity is synonymous with cheerfulness and joviality.
More disturbingly, Santa’s close-up contact with sniffling, coughing kids made him a one-man outbreak waiting to happen, with swine flu the biggest seasonal concern.
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