"Researchers calculated the body mass index - a standard measurement of size.... There is growing debate about the accuracy of the standard method of calculating whether someone is overweight.... the system would put nearly half of NBA players in the overweight category.... "
But that won't stop the agenda-pushing MSM!!!!
"In summer, obesity rules; Season of video screens, snacks has children losing battle" by Stephen Smith, Globe Staff | August 12, 2008
It is the paradox of summertime: The very months blessed with the greatest opportunity for running and jumping and playing have instead become prime time for packing on pounds. Once the plight of adults, obesity has become alarmingly common among the young, with children under 10 even being prescribed cholesterol-lowering pills. And specialists who treat overweight children say that the summer months are emerging as a leading suspect in the epidemic of childhood obesity.
Blame it on too much time in front of screens - computers, TV, and handheld-devices - and too little routine. Without the constancy of school and, even, the bland predictability of school lunches, summer looms as three months of unending temptation, fueled by advertising promoting sugar-laden snacks.
Weight specialists at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, one of the nation's top pediatric medical centers, said they are seeing evidence that skyrocketing food prices and concerns about the safety of fruits and vegetables have made it harder to serve children healthy meals.
That is especially true, they said, for poorer families, who often disproportionately bear the burden of weight problems. Schools - and the carbohydrate-rich breakfasts and lunches they often thrust in front of students - have frequently been implicated. "Schools," said Douglas B. Downey, an Ohio State University sociologist, "have been called obesity zones by some."
But Downey and colleagues at Indiana University weren't so sure. "We asked the question: When it comes to childhood obesity, are schools more part of the solution or more part of the problem?" Downey said.
The researchers calculated the body mass index - a standard measurement of size - for nearly 5,400 children, using data from a national survey. They found that during the summer between kindergarten and first grade, the youngsters' body mass index increased twice as fast as during the school year.
The rise, reported last year in the American Journal of Public Health, was especially steep for African-American and Hispanic children, as well as those already overweight at the start of kindergarten.
The lazy months of summer can also reverse progress achieved during the school year, according to a study from the University of Wisconsin. Their report in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine last year found that when overweight middle-schoolers went on summer vacation, advances made during the school year in cardiovascular fitness, insulin levels, and body composition were negated, stolen apparently by summer's lack of discipline, specialists said.
Sounds like they are calling for FULL-YEAR SCHOOL, doesn't it?
How's that grabbing you, kids?
It wasn't always this way, of course. Dr. David Ludwig, director of the Optimal Weight for Life program at Children's Hospital Boston, said that in earlier generations, summertime heralded a period of increased activity for youngsters.
Yeah, like when I WAS GROWING UP!!!!
But hours consumed by instant messaging, video games, and TV - coupled with parents' fears about letting their children play outdoors - now keep kids sequestered inside even when the sun is shining.
Almost like BEING in a PRISON, huh, kids?
And among all forms of what's known as "screen time," Ludwig said, TV may be most insidious of all "because it affects both ends of the energy-balance equation.
"Clearly," he said, "when children are watching television, they're not at the beach or playing basketball in the back yard burning off calories. But also they're receiving an unending series of messages by way of commercials to eat the highest-calorie, lowest-quality food imaginable."
And being BRAINWASHED by the ZIONIST PROPAGANDA MACHINE, too!!!!
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And about that weight problem....
"Half of overweight adults may be heart-healthy; Study contradicts stereotypes on size" by Lindsey Tanner, Associated Press | August 12, 2008
CHICAGO - The results also show that stereotypes about body size can be misleading, and that even "less voluptuous" people can have risk factors commonly associated with obesity, said study author MaryFran Sowers, a University of Michigan obesity researcher.
It's no secret that thin people can develop heart-related problems and that fat people often do not. But that millions defy the stereotypes will come as a surprise to many people, Sowers said.
If you are a PREJUDICED PERSON!!!
Some of us don't judge books by their covers!!!!
There is growing debate about the accuracy of the standard method of calculating whether someone is overweight. Health officials rely on the body mass index, a weight-height ratio that does not distinguish between fat and lean tissue. The limits of that method were highlighted a few years ago when it was reported that the system would put nearly half of NBA players in the overweight category.
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Excuse me?
Awwww, what is ONE MORE AGENDA PUSH, anyway, huh?
Fits right in with the "you must make do with less while we richers have more" mentality, doesn't it, readers?
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
