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To: Calpernia
She says the bottom line is that "we need school systems to treat weight bias with the legitimacy of other forms of bias that are addressed in schools already, like gender and racial bias."

BS, we need to treat child obesity as another form of child abuse.

19 posted on 07/13/2007 7:23:11 AM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: org.whodat

>>>BS, we need to treat child obesity as another form of child abuse.

Not by the CDC’s Body Mass Index.

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/

Look at the calculator. No field inputs for body type or sex.


22 posted on 07/13/2007 7:29:08 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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