On fighting obesity – state laws

28 Dec
2003

State legislatures have taken heed. They are passing positive laws to attack the obesity epidemic. Worried about obesity, states mulling laws for restaurants, schools and public employees

Under the laws that have passed, states will:

* Test the BMI — body-mass index, a ratio of height to weight — of students in six Arkansas schools, and send results home. Pediatricians say regular tests like this should be performed nationwide to track children at risk of becoming obese.

* Ban junk food from vending machines in California. New York City, in an administrative decision, banned hard candy, doughnuts, soda and salty chips from its vending machines.

* Require physical education programs in Louisiana schools, and encourage it in Arkansas and Mississippi. Though once a staple, such daily classes are now only required by state law in Illinois; other states let local officials decide or require exercise less often.

For even more information on obesity – here is the Surgeon General’s web page on the subject – The Surgeon General’s Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity

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4 Responses to On fighting obesity – state laws

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Dr. Kranky

December 28th, 2003 at 8:12 pm

When are the schools going to start banning caffeine-containing beverages from vending machines?

I’m a “small government” type, but the idea that poisoining little kids (and teenagers) wtih caffeine on a regular basis has no consequences is a textbook example of denial.

Measuring kids’ BMI’s may run into all sorts of PC objections, what with Fad Advocates running amok these days.

P.E.? God I HATED that when I was a kid. Perhaps that was because of the way in which it was administered- or maybe because I was a fat kid myself. I wonder how realistic reinstituting these classes these classes will be. Too little time to teach the 3 R’s as it is.

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LibraryGryffon

December 29th, 2003 at 12:06 pm

In truth, there would be plenty of time to teach the three Rs if they weren’t so busy having to instill all the other mandated stuff into our children, such as sex ed, drug ed, diversity, sensitivity, self-esteem, etc., etc.

I hated PE as a kid too, but that may have had to do with the fact that it was always team sports, and having been skipped a grade, I was always the smallest and least coordinated of the group. I also wore glasses and have poor depth perception, and my instinctual reaction to a softball coming towards me has always been to run for cover.

If we didn’t have to worry about the litigators, kids should just get at least 30 minutes a day (weather permitting) on a good old-fashioned play ground, with the opportunities for pick up ball games, jump-rope, monkey bars, swings, merry-go-rounds, etc., which gives plenty of options for those interested in team play, and those who prefer solitary or small group play.

Of course, you can get injured on a play ground, so we can’t possibly have that….

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j.c.

December 29th, 2003 at 1:14 pm

Hey! I hated PE even though I kicked ass.

If you can play well, they don’t let you sit on the sidelines. If only I’d had the sense to trip over my own feet on the first day… think of all the time I might have spent reading instead of playing basketball, softball, and volleyball.

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Don C

January 1st, 2004 at 7:10 pm

I think that the bmi is overrated.some people dont fit into the image that the insurance companys have for bmi index.I am in pretty good shape and they would call me obese dispite the fact that I can bench press 240 pounds and squat 400 hundred.