"Groundbreaking piece of bipartisan legislation" WTF!

The article listed below is a pieced that was published in Washington DC. It deals with the the issue of childhood obesity and how First lady Michelle Obama is putting together an initiative to combat childhood obesity.

Are you kidding? I think what this article is saying is that our country has just now figured out that childhood obesity is a problem and should be mitigated. Another question is why are they just now worrying about the quality of the foods in our schools? Haven't schools been serving lunches and sometimes breakfasts for the past 40 years at least? But yet we are just now concerned with feeding our children quality, healthy foods.

I don't believe they should call this initiative "groundbreaking". Groundbreaking, to me, sounds like something that has just been thought up recently. To say that our country has not been concerned with the health of its youth is a little scary. I am just glad that i packed my own lunch for all the time i went to school. If i had my child eating school lunches and this issue was brought up, i might be a tad bit upset.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101202/hl_afp/healthusfoodpoliticschildren_20101202223740


This next article is a study published in the ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine) journal showing how obesity rates vary in ethnicity as well as age, gender, and BMI. It states that obesity rates are found to be higher in certain genders although they are more active. This is actually very interesting because staying active is usually the number one factor in fighting obesity.

The study was made up of 3,106 american children of all different race, age, gender, and socio-economic status. The study said the researchers looked at physical activity, age, ethnicity, dietary intake, and BMI.

BUT, (of course there is always a but), the study states that they incorperated dietary intake although nothing was stated in the article about what the children were ingesting on a daily basis. physical activity is one of the main guards against obesity but one also needs to make the healthy choices when it comes to nutrition also.

I think that this study might have found some different results if they looked more into the nutrition that these kids were dealing with.


http://www.news-medical.net/news/20101207/Researchers-examine-relationship-between-childhood-obesity-physical-activity.aspx