Today, in the States, a pair of Harvard scholars writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association advocate stripping away the custody rights of parents of super obese children. They're for real!
"Despite the discomfort posed by state intervention, it may sometimes be necessary to protect a child," said Lindsey Murtagh, a lawyer and researcher at Harvard's School of Public Health. The study's co-author, David Ludwig, says taking away peoples' children "ideally will support not just the child but the whole family, with the goal of reuniting child and family as soon as possible." Ludwig, an obesity specialist at Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital, said his eureka moment was when a 90-pound, 3-year-old girl entered his obesity clinic a number of years ago," reports Lindsey Tanner at the Associated Press.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
So you want "medical professionals" more in bed with the Fedgov than they already are?
Give a man serious power over other people, and to some extent he will start trying to force those people to live the way he wants them to. I'd do it, and so would you, and probably neither of us are normally big on telling other people what to do. Give medical hall monitors - who'd love to be able to tell other people what to do - access to a federal program with enforcement powers, and we'll see one hell of a lot of this:
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YOu have no idea what you guys are in for.
Once they have a public system that your neighbour has to pay for they think it gives politicians a right to ban and modify behaviours all in the name of saving money. AS if..
We have been waiting to get a CT scan for the cattleman, they have suspected lung cancer (among other things) since march, we haven't even gotten an appointment yet, when we finally get our appointment it will be three months in the future from the phone call. I can buy a CT Scan for my @$#%^ dog in 2 days flat at the private vet clinic, but it is against the law to have private machines for humans. But ours will be "free" so it's all good and fair.
What about the other end of the scale? One of my cousins was around 70 to 80 pounds(at 5'3") for most of her adult life(gotten a little chunkier here of late),and a little under that as a teenager.She was healthy, just naturally rail thin. Would someone like her be forced to eat at Mickey D's until she reached an "ideal" weight?
They'd get a lot further if they'd go back to teaching cooking and nutrition in high school.
I met a lady in the grocery store - probably in her mid 40s - who was looking for a baking pan to cook with. She'd never cooked before - always bought microwave prepackaged dinners. I could hardly believe it!
And of course, the kids need to go out and _play_ to use up energy. Wonder when they're going to get the idea that maybe children should be working to use up all that energy...a return to things past? Was it _really_ so bad? (at least in moderation)
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