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Tell me again how smart people from Harvard are, and how I should be afraid of conservatives that want to take over the government.
Harvard Researchers Want Fat Kids Taken from Their Homes - Politics - The Atlantic Wire
Here is the link to the JAMA piece.
State Intervention in Life-Threatening Childhood Obesity, July 13, 2011, Murtagh and Ludwig 306 (2): 206
I really love this line.
As the Western world gets fatter and fatter, the solutions to slimming it down get ever more draconian. In Britain yesterday, the government issued guidelines saying "children under the age of 5, including babies who cant walk yet, should exercise every day." 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.
Harvard Researchers Want Fat Kids Taken from Their Homes - Politics - The Atlantic Wire
Here is the link to the JAMA piece.
State Intervention in Life-Threatening Childhood Obesity, July 13, 2011, Murtagh and Ludwig 306 (2): 206
I really love this line.
Even relatively mild parenting deficiencies, such as having excessive junk food in the home or failing to model a physically active lifestyle, may contribute to a childs weight problem.
William F. Buckley said:Id rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 members of the Harvard faculty.