Posted on 07/05/2002 6:25:02 AM PDT by SheLion
A group of dedicated health specialists met again this week to fine-tune its plan to encourage every school in Maine to get rid of sodas, chips and other non-nutritional items.
They have put together an information packet warning against soda and chips as major causes of a current epidemic of obesity and tooth decay throughout the country but especially in Maine. The packet includes research articles and fact sheets designed to persuade students, parents, teachers and school administrators that the campaign is one tangible, practical means of improving health and heading off future disease. The committee has met with vending machine companies and obtained assurances of cooperation.
The next step will be to develop a strategy presentation for individual school districts. Pilot projects in several Maine communities are scheduled to start March 1, 2003, After evaluation of the results, the statewide campaign is slated for the school year starting in September 2004.
One question that arose in this week’s meeting was how best to get the students to realize that it is up to them to control their own diet and escape from the vending-machine monopolies in many schools that promote consumption of the big-name drinks that are heavy on sugar and caffeine.
A nutritionist suggested permitting a choice between healthful and unhealthful items. Others believe that, if given a choice, many students will take the junk.
Another question is how the vending companies may respond to the campaign. Milk and plain water must be carefully defined or some vendor may come up with a pricey new variation. How about Coke-flavored milk?
The committee is preparing for the day when it will seek wider publicity. It is drafting model news stories and news releases. One suggestion, unanimously approved, was that they drop the technical term “dental caries” in their fact sheets and refer simply to plain old “tooth decay.” That was a step in the right direction.
It's all there. Just review the thread. So nice when the facts can't be disputed.
Go to bed and give it rest. That's what I'm going to do. If you don't you'll give yourself a stroke or a heart attack. When that happens you can test how well our health care system works.
Who are YOU?? His BROTHER??!!
Listen, I will say this one more time: when he or anyone else in here attacks my friends, they are going to hear it from me. If you don't like it, I am sorry. But NO one attacks my friends!
This is the LAST I will say about this..........
As I told you, I am a pragmatist in this matter. I'm now going through the list. I thought it might interest you as well.
I thought his problem was a valid one and I can see how Little Bill thinks he is a troll that is asking questions about a situation that can not be helped with out government intervention therefore making his point, if that what he is.
Now as for the food in public schools. I am undecided on the issue but I do know that Libs LOVE to rant on about "Students rights" such as no locker searches, no dress codes and no accountability. I find it ironic that they wish to control the students dietary choice.
It makes me think they just want yet another class action lawsuit, which of course is what this is all about.
I think a lot of you are treating his question as an idealogical issue while I am treating it as a real world thing.
I did not mean to anger a fellow lion, no one ever gets my name... *Sigh*. :D
Oh and just curious, have you e-mailed Doctors etc. in the New England Area? They might be able to understand your situation better then non-professionals such as myself.
The Cuban system is bankrupt, it's bankrupt because the Castro government has always placed the health of the regime ahead of the health of the people of Cuba, and the culture.
The Cuban medical system that's so lauded by that site, practices apartheid, and prostitutes itself. It claims that all get equal medical care, then turns around and sells high-end services to Party operatives, and dollar-bearing foreign tourists, while providing sub-standard services to its own citizens.
To be honest, my instinct is to label alternative medicine as a load of crap. But "beggars can't be choosers" so I'm pursuing it. And that's only the 4th or 5th down on a long, long list.
No, I haven't e-mailed doctors in the New England area because I don't know where to start. If you can give me one or two names that will probably be enough. You know how that goes; one thing leads to another.
Thanks very, very much for your encouragement. You have no idea how good it feel to know that at least one other person thinks I'm not wasting my time.
Let me clarify.
One solution which we are very likely to pursue will definitely require government intervention. How else can we get the law changed to allow "para-doctors" to do more than they are now permitted to do?
No doubt we will also takes sides on the issues of tort reform and reimbursement for services.
The hospital association puts out pages each month filled with laws and proposed laws which affect health care. It's naive to think the government isn't already heavily involved in health care...and will remain so.
With a screen name like "liberallarry," what did you suppose people would think? That you're a conservative or a libertarian? Get a grip.
Here's a reference to the maternal health care houses my doctor friends were describing. Just going through the article now.
It's tough, this research. And I'm no doctor. It would be nice to find someone who already had mastered this info.
My two cents.
Another reference to alternative therapies. What makes this research so hard is so much of it is politics and so little medicine. Alternative medicine has been around a long time - especially in the U.S. What makes Cuba so interesting is that necessity has forced them to explore this avenue to a far greater degree than is done in the U.S. That's interesting from a medical point of view. Yet all the articles are focused on the political aspects.
Still, I have the names of the authors and the medical groups involved.
There were a LOT less fat kids back then. It ain't the evil soda machines Larry, these kids never ever exercise.
What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?
The gist of it is that no-one really understands exactly what makes people fat or how to help them if they do get fat.
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