"I've had some parents tell me, 'I know my child is overweight. I don't need a letter to tell me that'"-- said Dr. Karen Young, medical director of the Pediatric Fitness Clinic at Arkansas Children's Hospital
YOUR TAX DOLLARS hard at work, folks!!
Related: State-Funded Fat Farm
Massachusetts Full of Fat Asses
Mass. Starvation
I'm ALSO a BIT OFFENDED since the KIDS are AWASH in "I'm lovin' it" McDonald's ads while soda is pushed as the national beverage.
You wanna work on overeating and fatties, state?
Start here:
"Every table was set with a single fresh rose (from the rose gardens outside, I was told) and a full complement of three forks, two knives, and two spoons in silver plate..... The buffet tables could have graced a high-end ocean liner. I watched a gentleman in colorful African garb pile his plate with slices of roast sirloin and potatoes mashed with feta cheese. A post-retirement-age couple from the East Side scarfed up most of the egg rolls, though more came out quickly....
I made for the roast leg of lamb with rosemary sauce after I filled my salad plate with chilled asparagus and slices of a duck and pork terrine.... fresh tomato soup and bowls of pasta primavera.... The dessert buffet table practically groaned under a spread of apple and pumpkin pies, cheesecakes, tarts, half a dozen cheeses, sliced fruits, bowls of berries, and, off to one side, three urns of ice cream"
And that was just for LUNCH!
Also see: Globalist Gluttons Gorge Themselves
Yup, but the PAPER and GOVERNMENT are LOOKING OUT for YOU, shit-eating Amurkn!!!!!!
What this is REALLY ABOUT is STARVING YOUR KIDS (and the rest of us) so GLOBALIST RICHERS can HAVE MORE!!!
Tell me something: SINCE WHEN has the STATE REALLY CARED about YOUR KIDS? Is that what the SCHOOL and HEALTH CUTS are for? The POISON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS? The LIES that sent them to WAR?
NOTHING is as it seems in the world of AGENDA-PUSHING PROPAGANDA PAPERS, readers, and I will never view the world the same again.
"Taking the measure of youth obesity; Mass. follows Ark. screening program" by Stephen Smith, Globe Staff | March 16, 2009
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - .... Stories like Rodgers's have inspired Massachusetts to adopt the Arkansas model for combating childhood obesity, a national epidemic that has visited upon children conditions once seen almost exclusively in adults, such as high cholesterol and lifestyle-related diabetes.
Next month, health regulators in Massachusetts are expected to mandate that, just like in Arkansas, every public school student should be weighed and measured so parents can receive a snapshot showing whether their child is headed toward a serious medical problem. Screenings in the first, fourth, seventh, and 10th grades would begin this fall in some schools, and the following year in the remaining schools.
You know, like a piece of meat ready for drafting, er, slaughter!
Six years ago, led by an obese governor and a top lawmaker stricken by a heart attack, Arkansas embarked on what was then the most ambitious campaign in the country to address childhood obesity. Since then, persistently rising body mass index readings in the state have leveled off, although the same trend is evident nationwide.
The experience in Arkansas, where a down-home restaurant in the shadow of the state Capitol peddles a burger branded as "the Hubcap," provides lessons both serious and sublime for the architects of the nascent campaign in Massachusetts.
Make sure, doctors and nurses in Arkansas say, that health professionals conduct the screening in a discreet fashion to minimize episodes of teasing. Be sensitive, they said, to the possibility that a child already predisposed to anorexia could be sent into a perilous binge of dieting because of a worrisome weight test.
But the state cares about your kid.
And beware the prankster: At some schools, students have shown up for their screening wearing concealed ankle weights. "If you compare a kindergarten class picture from 30 years ago with a kindergarten class picture today, you're struck by the different body profiles," said Dr. Joe Thompson, Arkansas's surgeon general.
That's because WE COULD GO OUT and PLAY -- as opposed to the couch potatoes that are frightened to death of perverts, just wants to play video games, and eat chips and drink soda.
One morning last week, fidgeting students clad in crisp polo shirts and khakis queued up at the eStem Elementary Public Charter School. Two by two, they ambled into a room where scales sat on the floor and measuring devices stretched up the wall. Nurse Marsha Warren gently urged the fourth-graders to remove their shoes, stand ramrod straight, and place their hands at their sides. Her voice assumed that conspiratorial, I'm-on-your-side patois that puts even the most anxious child at ease.
Sort of like the tone of the newspaper, huh?
As one boy clambered onto the scale, Warren made sure he stood backward. "I want you to turn around and face that way because I don't want you to know what the numbers are," Warren told the child. "It's a big secret. If there are kids who are chubby, we don't want them to be embarrassed."
Umm, I think everyone knows it when they see it. Doncha love teachers teaching denial? Would that they had such concern for Palestinians or Afghans, say. They just starve.
Each child's height and weight were plugged into a formula that yields the body mass index.
So much for INDIVIDUALITY, 'eh, kids?
Jazmine Jones, possessing a sense of serenity well beyond her 9 years, did not know her score, but she knew this: "It's not about what other people say; it's what you think about yourself. But I think I need to lose weight."
She's 9!!! I am SICK of this SHIT-SELLING CULTURE selling OUR CHILDREN INSECURITIES!!! I'm too old and I'm past that stuff, but WTF? I thought schools were supposed to CARE ABOUT OUR KIDS, not give them SOCIAL HANG-UPS!!
The legislation that created the Arkansas campaign was easily approved by lawmakers and eagerly endorsed by Mike Huckabee, then the governor and a recently converted fitness evangelist. But soon enough, as the public and press became more aware of the initiative, opposition began roiling.
Joy Rockenbach.... and other health and education leaders set about dispelling myths and addressing fears that have dogged the program in Arkansas and, already, Massachusetts.
Some parents argued that schools had no right meddling in their youngsters' health.
"I've had some parents tell me, 'I know my child is overweight. I don't need a letter to tell me that,' " said Dr. Karen Young, medical director of the Pediatric Fitness Clinic at Arkansas Children's Hospital.
Responding to this concern, lawmakers amended the law in 2007 to allow parents to exempt their children from testing, but most participate. They also scaled back from annual testing to every other year.
Somehow the state can come up with money for this, huh, as the school around the kid crumbles?
State reviews have found two initial fears were largely unfounded: that overweight children would face bullying as a result of the testing, and that children would engage in dangerous dieting. Indeed, surveys show that the percentage of students who reported enduring teasing about their weight declined from 12 percent in 2004 to 7 percent last year.
A new University of Arkansas study reaches similar conclusions, finding "few adverse effects" related to the campaign.
This is the same state that supports the program, right? And they found no problems, huh? How about that? Where's that salt-shaker? I'd like a grain as I sit down to read their report.
Dr. Maria Portilla, medical director of the Adolescent Eating Disorder Clinic at Arkansas Children's Hospital, estimated that she had treated five or six children whose latent conditions appeared to have been triggered by the screening. Two teens had to be hospitalized; a third, the doctor said, was suicidal.
"I'm definitely not saying that the BMI letter caused the eating disorder. I'm saying those patients were already at risk for it, they had a lot of things going on, and the BMI letter just kind of pushed them over the edge," Portilla said, adding that all the children survived their illnesses....
Almost makes you want to keep the kid home, 'eh?
But YOUR STATE LUVS YOU!!!!
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Good thing shit is calorie-free, huh, teeny-bopper?
