“Childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century,” reports the World Health Organisation (WHO).
“The problem is global and is steadily affecting many low- and middle-income countries, particularly in urban settings…Globally, in 2010 the number of overweight children under the age of five, is estimated to be over 42 million. Close to 35 million of these are living in developing countries.”
Want to see healthier options on kids’ menus at restaurants and tired of seeing nothing but chicken fingers, burgers and fries? Your concerns are part of the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity.
Citizens of ObamAmerica are in the process of being told to stand over there, wear this, say this, don’t say that. We’ve all been given an equal share of pennies in a change purse and, after lining up for a trip to the school nurse; Americans have been instructed to put our heads down for quiet time – although calm “federal fat police” may have a melee in the making after proposing a bill mandating measuring children’s BMI. Why?- Because government handling of American children is something even the compliant defy.
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ATLANTA, May 13 (UPI) — A U.S. researcher has linked child obesity and the federal school lunch program.
Rusty Tchernis of Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies in Atlanta said children participating in the National School Lunch
Program have an increased likelihood of being overweight.
However, Tchernis said participating in the School Breakfast Program was a more positive experience.
“The School Breakfast Program is a valuable tool in the current battle against childhood obesity,” Tchernis said in a statement. “Overweight children are more likely to become obese adults, so the only way to reduce obesity is to prevent it from happening in children.”
Tchernis and colleagues found those who participate in both the breakfast and the lunch programs were less heavy than those who didn’t participate in either program, or those who only ate lunch program meals.
The study, published in The Journal of Human Resources, looked at the relationship between the two programs and obesity using data on more than 13,500 primary school students. Students were interviewed in kindergarten, first and third grades, and then again in later grades.
UPI.com
