Posted on 10/07/2013 2:39:31 PM PDT by Darren McCarty
A Florida mom received an unpleasant surprise in the mail recently. No, it wasn't an unexpected bill, it was a letter that said her 11-year-old daughter, Lily, was overweight. "Lily is tall, she's athletic, she's solid muscle, Kristen Grasso, told Fox 4 News." By no means is she overweight." The girl, a star on her middle school volleyball team, had her Body Mass Index (BMI) calculated as part of a health screening mandated by Florida law. While parents can opt out, Grasso, a mother of four who says she tries to encourage her children to be active and feeds them healthy meals, said she thought the upcoming screenings would be about vision and hearing, not about weight.
About 20 states have now adopted mandatory health screenings including weigh-ins to calculate the BMI of public school children in order to combat the childhood obesity epidemic. BMI is determined by multiplying a person's weight times their height squared, and it's widely used by physicians as an indicator of weight problems. Over the last 30 years in the United States, the rate of obese children has more than doubled and the rate of obese teens has tripled. But, some parents and children are concerned that sending home "fat letters," as they are derisively known, could lead to low self-esteem and bullying. Grasso said she was concerned for "kids that see the results of this test [who] may be classified as overweight but aren't, and the self-esteem issues that they may get."
The Center for Disease Control says that children who have BMIs in the 85-95th percentile are considered to be overweight and the 95th percentile and above to be obese.
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The scary part is how this affects Obamacare and government rules that are following this.
Anyone have Moochelle’s BMI?
BMI says I an suppose to weigh only 175-180. I haven’t weighed that since high school. My “cruiser” weight is always around 220-230.
A woman who is 5’3” tall and weighs 124 is blessed, not obese! What does the girl’s own physician say? That’s whose opinion matters, not Moochelle’s. We all know she is behind this.
I’ll bet her BMI isn’t anything she is going to allow to be published.
Of course a lot of those guys go on to have a lot of health issues later in life. They don’t exactly define “healthy”, just “made for the mission”.
Since my BMI is 56+, I’ll probably be one of the first to choose where to die as physicians will no longer treat me.
Sure, but who doesn’t. I still have issues from being in the military. Any person who throws their body around will have ‘health issues’.
She’s 5-11, I’ll guess 200#
so 28
just my guesstimate.....
Years ago when I was in the service I was also into bodybuilding. At a physical, the doc told me I came up on the charts as obese - even though I was ripped to shreds and had half the bodyfat of the pencilnecked, skinny doc who was telling me this. Yes, BMI is stupid.
BMI is a joke, you are dead on. I am going on 70 years old, stand six four barefoot and weigh 250. According to height and weight charts I am obese but young people are constantly asking me how I manage to look so great at my age. I don’t know my actual body fat percentage but it is low. I have a 52 inch chest and my size 38 waist jeans are getting very loose, I probably will have to switch to 36 soon. I used to weigh twenty pounds less when I was a lot younger but had more fat on me by far than now.
BMI is a moving goalpost, and just plain BS. Her Lardass’ rearend has its own zipcode; what’s the BMI on that thing?
B-52?
FWIW, leave the kids alone! It's already a chellenge in our warped society to convince girls not to try to be a size 2 like models and actresses usually are. I was always an overweight girl (5'7" weight about 150) and it's served me health-wise very well in life. Now, I've gotten down to a "healthy" weight...but I'm no longer supporting a growing body, so I don't need as many calories.
How the medical world can believe in/use/support a system that says a man and woman of the same height should weigh the same is proof that science does not reign in much of the medical world - just as it doesn’t in the climate realm, and many others.
Insane, illogical, non-sensical.
Of course, the feminists love it........and especially feminazi’s....
See my post at 9.
Just my guess....
True, but there are WAY WAY WAY more fat kids today than 50 yrs ago when I was a kid.
Diet and lack of phys activity.
This is a real problem, not for the fedgov to solve, but a problem nonetheless.
We had the same problem in the Marine Corps, but your commander could “authorize alternative weight standards.” If you were muscular, getting classified for an alternative weight standard was almost automatic: every six months, the company gunnery sergeant would give the list to the company clerk. The clerk would fill-out the form and the company commander would sign them.
The government created a lot of that. The "standards" for education have cut down on phys ed classes and recesses. They've cut down on shops, music, and drama (etc) which involve more movement than academic classes do (ironically, those other classes also increase academic achievement). Closing neighborhood schools has closed neighborhood playgrounds and taken away before and after school playground time. Instead, the kids are riding a bus to and from school.
Then there's nutrition. Kids are eating school breakfast and school lunch. It's food, most often pre-packaged, and not geared to individual tastes and needs. It's most often no fresher or higher quality than you could get at Wendy's or McDonalds. Besides that, when parents don't provide the meals it's tough to create a balanced diet from a child's meals and snacks.
It's just another example of what happens when the feds "improve things".
The wookie’s BMI is 26.3. However the calculation excluded her butt. To include her ass in the BMI calculation is racist.
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