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Obesity Report Cards
By Cindy | September 10, 2007
I just read an article about Obesity Report Cards in Arkansas. They were the first state to implement this program about 4 years ago.
The premise behind it was to inform students and their parents about the health risks involved with being overweight and obesity. Each year the kids would be weighed and have their BMI evaluated …
It woke some children and parents up. 16 year old Jeffrey Trimble didn’t like being the report and decided to change his ways. He lost 35 pounds by watching his diet and not eating so much junk food. He said it used to be nothing for him to gobble down 6 cheeseburgers a day.
But, now legislators and some parents have complained that telling kids they are overweight and/or obese damanges their self-esteem and wants a change …
This really surprised me, because doesn’t being overweight damage their self-esteem more?
Isn’t it better to inform kids about the dangers of obesity?
Wouldn’t we be a wise nation if we taught our children about nutrition and how to eat healthy?
Kids can be cruel – always have been – always will be. And overweight kids always get picked on – regardless.
Overweight children was down to 37.5% from 38.1 in Arkansas. But because of legislative changes, they will now only be reporting every two years – and the parents can opt out.
The odd thing about this “law” is that according to a recent study 68% of the parents and an overwehilming 85% of the students stated they were comfortable with the reports.
So what’s your thoughts? Do you think that the schools should give obesity report cards? After all it seems us as parents are failing to teach our children proper nutrition. And parents never want to see their kids as overweight …. Isn’t it time we took a reality check?
Till next time,
Cindy
Topics: Health and Nutrition | 1 Comment »
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:59 pm
lots of americans and europeans are getting obese these days because of over-eating. people should be controlling what they eat or they should workout their body to burn fat.