In news released Wednesday, June 20th, 2012, the American Medical Association (AMA) announced that they were in support of in-class instruction geared towards preventing childhood obesity.
That is correct, the AMA feels that childhood obesity can be prevented by classroom lecturing.
What about the children in the classroom who may already be considered obese? The borderline children who teeter on obesity and the impressionable children who may be negatively effected by the fear of obesity thus creating intentions which could lead toward the just as deadly opposite end of obesity?
The AMA announced support for a call on taxing sugary drinks in order to fund the programs which would eventually become the ‘obesity prevention program’.
The tax on sugary drinks is already being called into question as doctors feel that it will negatively effect the poor disproportionately. While others feel that it is not right to tax people into making healthy decisions that they should be making on their own.
Excess weight is a real problem and can lead to some forms of cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Scientists have discovered that even a five-percent weight loss can greatly improve ones health.
There are real alternatives to the scared straight type teaching, this is where a kids and teen weight loss camp like New Image Camps can help create a healthy approach to weight loss. New Image Camps are currently underway at Camp Pocono Trails and Camp Vanguard.
