Little Milk, Exercise Hurts Kids' Bones

How little they really know.

Remember, fat people, you trust these folks with your lives, put their drugs in your body and let them slice you open because you cannot control what you stick in your mouths.

The ignorance: They do not know what is normal bone for kids. This is and has been a simple thing to measure.

"Bone specialists say possibly millions of seemingly healthy children aren't building as much strong bone as they should a gap that may leave them more vulnerable to bone-cracking osteoporosis later in life than their grandparents are...

Now scientists are taking the first steps to track kids' bone quality and learn just how big a problem the anti-bone trio is causing, thanks to new research that finally shows just what "normal" bone density is for children of different ages."

So what are they doing?

"Dr. Heidi Kalkwarf of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital led a national study that gave bone scans to 1,500 healthy children ages 6 to 17 to see how bone mass is accumulated. The result, published last summer: The first bone-growth guide, just like height-and-weight charts, for pediatricians treating children at high risk of bone problems."

But, how do they know who is "healthy"?

They don't:

"Ultimately, the question is what level is cause for concern.

'I don't know if we're raising a population that's going to be at risk" for osteoporosis, Kalkwarf cautions. "It's really hard to know what the cutoff is, how low is too low.'"

Nor do they have an approach to "fix" the "problem" since they have no idea about that either.

"But strong bones require more than calcium alone. Exercise is at least as important. Consider: The dominant arm of a tennis player has 35 percent more bone than the non-dominant arm.

And Canadian researchers recently reported that postmenopausal women who had exercised more as teens had 8 percent stronger bone decades later than their more sedentary counterparts.

Yet childhood exercise is dropping as obesity rises.

Likewise, the body can't absorb calcium and harden bones without vitamin D. By some estimates, 30 percent of teens get too little.

It's not just that they don't drink fortified milk..."

There is a clear bottom line.

These people are clueless about a "problem" that they have not identified despite years of opportunities.

The one thing that is clear, is that fit people, have far fewer bone-related problems than fat people.

So if you are an unfit fat person, do yourself, your children and society a favor and get fit.

Save your independence because when you finally break your hip and lose your freedom to move, your kids will be too darned fat to help you, assuming they survived your nutritional child abuse.

Either way, you will likely rot in a nursing home until you die.

Unless you act to lose the weight and parent responsibly.