Aubrey Gordon: Leave the fat kids alone

I was in the fourth grade, sitting in a doctor’s office, the first time my face flushed with shame. I was, I had just learned, overweight.I will remember the pediatrician’s words forever: It’s probably from eating all that pizza and ice cream. It tastes good, doesn’t it? But it makes your body big and fat.I felt my face sear with shame.There was more: Just imagine that your body is made out of clay. If you can just stay the same weight, as you grow, you’ll stretch o