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Michigan Governor wants to document state's child obesity stats (with weight registry)
Northwestohio ^ | 9/14/11 | Angi Gonzalez

Posted on 09/14/2011 11:01:25 PM PDT by Libloather

Michigan Governor wants to document state's child obesity stats
by Angi Gonzalez
Posted: 1 hr, 23 mins ago

MICHIGAN (AP) -- Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has announced plans to begin asking doctors, practicing in Michigan, to start monitoring the body weight of patients 18 and under.

Under the proposal, revealed during an event in Lansing on Wednesday, the data would be entered into a Michigan Care Improvement Registry in the hopes of addressing the state's growing pediatric obesity problem.

**SNIP**

The Governor's plan would require the information be stored anonymously, but according to the Governor's office, would give doctors the perfect opportunity to address concerns about obesity with a patient and their caregiver.

(Excerpt) Read more at northwestohio.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: governor; michigan; obesity; registry
Pretty soon they'll be tracking us skinny people.
1 posted on 09/14/2011 11:01:35 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
Way to go Rick. I guess you are going for Progressive Hack Gov of the Year. If I am not mistaken, obese kids is the least of Michigan's problems. Take a look a some of your unemployment stats and state of some of your cities?

What a loser.

2 posted on 09/14/2011 11:12:33 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Lazlo in PA
Standard socialist government M.O.-

1. Get the media to start the drumbeat of a 'crisis'.

2. Propagandize the public enough that they start to believe it.

3. Address 'crisis' through regulation, taxation, or intervention.

4. Public is okay with loss of freedom and/or tax confiscation because the 'crisis' is being solved.

5. Invent new 'crisis'.

3 posted on 09/14/2011 11:43:57 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Libloather

FatNet. Hooked into everything. Some say it got smart. It decided our fate in a microsecond.


4 posted on 09/14/2011 11:55:01 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Libloather

Before the election, I said these two candidates look the same to me.


5 posted on 09/15/2011 12:27:55 AM PDT by exnavy (May the Lord bless and keep our troops.)
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To: Libloather

This same fear mongering about obesity is the same fear thing that keeps our youth indoors; afraid to go out and get some exercise. If the organs of propaganda spent as much time bringing fear in the minds of the perpetrator as they did with obesity, kids would be have no fear of the outdoors.

If people were not so obsessed with the idea of a perfect world, they would not prevent kids,in their imperfect ways, from being kids. Instead, they could volunteer their time facilitating sports activities for kids.

Obesity goes hand in hand with the underclasses. Where wealth gives access to a variety of recreational activities, food is the one of the few recreational activities of the underclasses—food and, of course, drugs and sex.


6 posted on 09/15/2011 1:12:19 AM PDT by jonrick46 (2012 can't come soon enough.)
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To: Libloather

“...then they came for the fat people and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t fat...”


7 posted on 09/15/2011 3:46:16 AM PDT by tal hajus ("Thank you sir. May I have another?" GOP)
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To: Libloather

Wait a minute! The DemocRATS have been telling us for the past two weeks that America’s children are all starving to death because of “poverty”. I thought starving children were skinny. What the hell gives here?!


8 posted on 09/15/2011 3:47:58 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Only two things come out of the DemocRAT Party. Fears and Smears.)
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To: Lazlo in PA
Now, now. Don't be so critical. Like with those cute houses on the right.

I really like that White House in the middle.
With a little paint, some new doors, windows, and landscaping it would look like THIS

;-)

9 posted on 09/15/2011 5:36:23 AM PDT by Condor51 (Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
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To: Libloather

Traking...Stalking...same thing.


10 posted on 09/15/2011 7:57:28 AM PDT by MichiganCheese (Racist Honkies For Herman Cain!)
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