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“Dear parents, we wanted to alert you that your child is seriously on the path to being ridiculously overweight.”
Schools across England will begin testing children’s BMI (Body Mass Index) to tackle the growing problem of obesity. Parents will be getting a letter telling stating their child’s health whether it’s underweight, healthy, overweight or VERY overweight. Some parents aren’t noticing that their child is overweight and for those who are clinically defined as obese take it as highly offensive. Dr. Colin Waine, Chairman of the National Obesity Forum said the term “obesity” can be insulting. "It does not have to be used in a judgmental or insulting way: if a child is obese then the parents should know that it’s obese,” Waine said. “ We must make parents know that the lifestyle of the family needs to be modified." Statistics from 2006 show that nearly a third of all children between the ages two and 15 are overweight or obese, it showed an increase of 11% from 1995. "This is a really serious problem," says Dr Waine. "We're in danger of producing a generation of children with a shorter life expectancy. We can't just say that's acceptable." I hope the U.S. starts something like this to inform that their little darlings are getting unattractively overweight. I seriously don’t want any more episodes of Maury with fat kids running around on stage with their mother’s crying because their kids keeps eating. Newsflash parents: stop feeding your kids ridiculously amounts of junk food…..moderation is key! Duh! Everyone wants their kids to be cute, fit and alive for a LONG time!