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New Study Finds Overweight Kids Face Fat Stigma
Millennium Radio New Jersey ^ | Friday, July 13, 2007 | By: David Matthau

Posted on 07/13/2007 5:41:18 AM PDT by Calpernia

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To: Calpernia

They had to do a study for that?!?


21 posted on 07/13/2007 7:26:25 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: org.whodat

>>>BS, we need to treat child obesity as another form of child abuse.

Not by the CDC’s Body Mass Index.

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/

Look at the calculator. No field inputs for body type or sex.


22 posted on 07/13/2007 7:29:08 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

It never ceases to amaze me what people will fund studies to find out.


23 posted on 07/13/2007 8:17:12 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: mware
I am just waiting for the food police to begin to monitor the snacks kids bring to school.

I believe I read somewhere (probably FR) that that is already happening; I just don't know where to find it.

24 posted on 07/13/2007 8:18:55 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Calpernia

I’ve read that they recently determined that measuring BMI is only effective for the 25-55 age group, and even then it doesn’t account various issues, such as why a muscular athlete would be considered obese by its standards.

While there are other measuring methods out there such as the hip to waist ratio(the method they say is best for older folks) there really is nothing outside of a doctor’s visit as none of these measuring tests will consider present health as well.


25 posted on 07/13/2007 9:28:30 AM PDT by Santa Fe_Conservative
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To: Santa Fe_Conservative

One more thing...

While I am against schools regulating what snacks(come on, a bag of potato chips is probably healthier than the garbage they serve in most school cafeterias) I do think the parents of the kids need to take charge. If your kid is whining about being tired that he or she is fat, then make them do SOMETHING!! Don’t let them sit and moan and eat more. Turn the TV/computer off and send them for a bike ride, or go for a family walk and make sure there not snacking on junk and soda all afternoon.


26 posted on 07/13/2007 9:44:32 AM PDT by Santa Fe_Conservative
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bump


27 posted on 07/13/2007 10:46:24 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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Whoops, at first glance I thought that said “fat face stigma”, and thought, “how cruel”. Pass the pizza.


28 posted on 07/13/2007 10:46:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Friday the 13th, July 2007. Trisdecaphobia! https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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