Weighing in for School
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tara Gidus, MS, RD, CSSD, LD/N
New York is the latest state to join 12 other states (Arkansas, Texas, California, Florida, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia) in requiring students to get their height and weight measured. New York is adding this to the student health certificate which is mandatory for attendance at New York schools.
The state health commissioner, Dr. Richard Daines, was quoted as saying, "Whatever you can measure, you can improve. By measuring body mass index, I think we'll see some improvement."
The students will have their height and weight measured in the form of body mass index, or BMI. Numerous studies link being overweight and obese to detrimental health problems even in children.
What do you think about requiring kids to be weighed and measured as a requirement to go to school? Do you think this will motivate students and schools to improve BMI? Or will it have a negative effect on self esteem?
Post a comment with your thoughts!
1 Comments:
At Thu Sep 18, 02:46:00 PM 2008,
Weight Loss said…
The modern obsession with a thin body is another problem that women face now a days. Women try everything in order to get this extra pounds off, things like pills, patches, diet, hunger, exercises and all kind of weight loss products. Some of them work, but others - not.
Weight loss industry is focusing on the way people should feel while doing it, in order to achieve better results and stay healthy all the time. Being healthy and thin is not a dream, it should be something, that is a reasonable and easy to be done.
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