Posted on 09/29/2014 1:01:55 PM PDT by Ray76
John Hopkins Medicine researchers will track the physical activities and daily diet of 50 overweight freshman from Lakewood High School as part of a pilot project using Fitbit – an electronic wristband that records activity and sleep patterns.
The effort, funded by a $100,000 grant from insurer Florida Blue, is focused more on teaching healthy habits than weight loss, and is expected to be one of the first studies involving adolescence and wearable heath-related technology, Reuters reports.
Researchers told the news service the pilot project eliminates the need to bring students in to the doctor’s office, and they’re hoping to expand the program if it’s successful.
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Need to put those wristbands on college aged females so they won’t go missing anymore.
I hope the kids have a say in this-——whether to volunteer or not.
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So fat people are criminals that require tracking with an “Irish Rolex”.... Nice... Thanks Control State Fitness Freaks...
Never heard it called that.
The nanny state needs to be taken out behind the wood-shed, and beaten to a pulp so bad that it never repeats insanity like this.
Other than that, great idea.
reminds me of an episode from Simpsons.
Principal skinner is looking at a screen of a map with a single red dot on it. And he says “The student tracking program would have worked out perfectly. Unfortunately only one student volunteered to have a chip implanted on himself.”
The screen goes to a happy nerd boy with a beeping chip sticking out of his neck.
This is creepy. It’s an invasion of their privacy and simply wrong. And I would guess that the pressure of being constantly monitored will in the end make these kids even more unhealthy.
A sudden hot sweat had broken out all over Winston's body. His face remained completely inscrutable. Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give you away. He stood watching while the instructress raised her arms above her head and — one could not say gracefully, but with remarkable neatness and efficiency — bent over and tucked the first joint of her fingers under her toes.
Exactly, nothing like wearing the wristband that announces to your class that you are overweight.
Bluntly? I think that their enormous gut handles that pretty well on its own.
First let me note that I could stand to lose some weight, myself. But, as WBill Jr. gets a little older, something that I've noticed amongst the kids in his school is how *overweight* they are. Not just a few pounds here and there, or a short handful of big kids. Nope, these kids are fat. Waaaaaay fatter than any kids in my generation.
I blame lack of parental supervision (or parental OVER supervision). Where we were outside running around, biking, playing ball, etc ... these kids are either twiddling a IPhone, or stuck inside waiting for the next parentally sanctioned playdate, or both.
All that being said, I think that this wristband is a horrific idea. Nanny statism gone wild. Kids would be better served by having to ditch the IPad and go outside or to a gym or whatever, to run around for an hour a day.
“Kids would be better served by having to ditch the IPad and go outside or to a gym or whatever, to run around for an hour a day.”
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That,of course,is the answer but there’s no grant money for a solution like this.
They will “study” this problem forever but solve nothing.
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Americans are going to get an up close look at what totalitarianism is. The creeping intrusion into every facet of life is upon us now. We only await the full enforcement push.
Monitored bracelets? Reminds me of Ira Levin’s “This Perfect Day”-totally creepy and scary...
I’d put it on my friggin dog, track that goebbels! Just getting the sheeples ready for those tracking chips they plan for everyone.
How about..... NO
$100,000 to track 50 students??
That sounds like something government would do instead of an insurance company.
I was wrong. $100K hardly pays for an 18-minute Obama speech
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3209122/posts
$100,000 to track 50 students??
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Key word here is TRACK.
If they were to spend more time on the TRACK or other sporting adventures, the problem would get a step up in curing itself.
You don’t see any ‘fat’ kids on decent ball teams.
Maybe a couple with baby fat that could be shed, but for the most part, the kids are ‘skinny’ - but they do run, they do exercise and are not ‘couch potatoes 24/7.
I’d put it on my friggin dog, track that goebbels!
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There was a day not so long ago that would have been an excellent idea, and the perfect solution.
But in todays world you would just be giving ‘them’ proof that YOUR pooch was crapping in other yards and running around unleashed......
They put those tracking devices on trucks which on occasion may exonerate them as to speed, conditions etc but a few have been ‘nailed’ for being in an accident NOT THEIR FAULT because they may have been going over the speed limit a couple of hours ago with the thought being if they weren’t speeding, they wouldn’t have been at the impact point with the ‘bad driver’.
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