This administration thinks they can dictate behavior. Personal habits are formed over time and it takes the "person" NOT a NANNY STATE to overcome the habits. Now these kids will not get an education because they have been DEEMED FAT! These kids have been embarrassed by the school administrators! Do you really honestly think these kids are going to want to go back to school after being called FAT? The other kids will make fun of them. They probably already do and now the school authority is making their self-esteem issues worse. Isn't this f-g discrimination??? These kids are NOT going to lose this weight overnight! I mean come on GET REAL.
This is NOT the way to SOLVE the obesity issue. ALL children should be taught nutritional facts. Children need to play again and be ACTIVE like we were when we were kids. That's what a PLAYGROUND is supposed to be used for! Whatever happened to Physical education (PE) at school?!?! or how about after school playground?!?! Have ALL of these programs BEEN CUT?!
My gosh, I grew up in a home where I could literally eat anything I wanted whenever I wanted. I ate donuts at Winchell's, ice cream at Thrifty's, hamburgers at McDonald's, banana splits and root beer floats at the local soda pop shop, the best greasy slized pizza on the venice boardwalk all summer, candy every day. I was playing outside with my friends from the time I got home from school until it got dark. We were roller skating, riding our bikes, playing tag football, climbing walls and tree's and this is just on my block. My mom had to shout for me several times before I actually came in because I was having so much fun. There were also times when I would be glued to the tv set watching my favorite cartoons and programs or playing video games. My dinner was mostly steak, potato's and vegetables. There was no health consciousness in my environment not like today. I still eat junk food and love it. Although, I eat it in moderation whenever I get a hankering for it.
My point is I can't understand what is making these kids obese? What's changed since then? The only logical thing I can come up with is they are not active like we were. Could it also be the new immunization shots that we didn't get? Could it be the new genetically modified (GMO) foods they are feeding the new generation directly and indirectly that we didn't have back then? Something is causing their digestive system to make them bloat. I know I know, you're probably laughing and saying they're stuffing their faces TOO MUCH that's the cause. Well, okay then if we can teach people to EAT TO LIVE instead of living to eat perhaps our human landscape would change. But don't DENY a person the pleasure of eating whatever the hell they want when they want. It has to remain a PERSONAL CHOICE!
My gosh, I grew up in a home where I could literally eat anything I wanted whenever I wanted. I ate donuts at Winchell's, ice cream at Thrifty's, hamburgers at McDonald's, banana splits and root beer floats at the local soda pop shop, the best greasy slized pizza on the venice boardwalk all summer, candy every day. I was playing outside with my friends from the time I got home from school until it got dark. We were roller skating, riding our bikes, playing tag football, climbing walls and tree's and this is just on my block. My mom had to shout for me several times before I actually came in because I was having so much fun. There were also times when I would be glued to the tv set watching my favorite cartoons and programs or playing video games. My dinner was mostly steak, potato's and vegetables. There was no health consciousness in my environment not like today. I still eat junk food and love it. Although, I eat it in moderation whenever I get a hankering for it.
My point is I can't understand what is making these kids obese? What's changed since then? The only logical thing I can come up with is they are not active like we were. Could it also be the new immunization shots that we didn't get? Could it be the new genetically modified (GMO) foods they are feeding the new generation directly and indirectly that we didn't have back then? Something is causing their digestive system to make them bloat. I know I know, you're probably laughing and saying they're stuffing their faces TOO MUCH that's the cause. Well, okay then if we can teach people to EAT TO LIVE instead of living to eat perhaps our human landscape would change. But don't DENY a person the pleasure of eating whatever the hell they want when they want. It has to remain a PERSONAL CHOICE!
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FOX News
written by Staff
Saturday July 17, 2010
Massachusetts parents are angry and dismayed over a public school policy that sees students getting sent home with “fat letters,” myFOXboston.com reported late Friday.
Many schools across the state began sending Body Mass Index (BMI) reports and letters home with students in order to flag possible obesity issues to parents.
"To have a piece of paper like this come home in their backpack with them is very, very concerning to me," said mother Lori-Ann Sumner, whose nine-year-old daughter Shelby -- an active gymnast and athlete -- was characterized as “borderline overweight.”
"Her BMI was 19.43, which brought her to 84.38 percent, and 85th percentile is considered overweight,” said social worker Sumner, who is worried that children and parents will take the information in the wrong way.
"It could be a good tool if you know how to utilize it, but they are going home blindly to parents [to whom] it is just numbers and they don't know how to interpret it," Sumner said.
Shelby, who is 90 pounds and just over four-foot-nine, did not take the letter to heart but fears some of her more sensitive or insecure peers might.
"I just kind of chuckled and threw it back in my backpack," said Shelby. "It was like, whatever. I think I would be considered big for my grade and age but definitely not overweight."
Memorial Elementary School in Medway, Mass., is required by law to calculate each student's BMI to determine healthy proportions.
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