Online Game 'Color My Pyramid' Battles Obesity In DC Schools

Not hardly, another research scam and just what fat kids need - another video game.

"An online game might be the secret weapon for winning the war against childhood obesity. Researchers at George Mason University have designed and tested a nutrition education program called 'Color My Pyramid' to teach students how to evaluate their dietary intake and activity level. The program incorporates the Department of Agriculture's MyPyramid.gov for Kids Blast-Off Game, an interactive computer game that allows kids to win by fueling their rocket with nutritious foods and a healthy level of physical activity.

The Color My Pyramid program comprises six classes taught over a period of three months. Researcher analysis showed that the program significantly improved children's eating habits, increased physical activity levels, lowered blood pressure and decreased weight and Body Mass Index percentiles."

What the brave researchers do not say is how much of an "improvement" there was and for how long.

You can bet that if there were a truly meaningful outcome, the numbers would have been reported.

Even assuming a "significant" improvement, statistical significance is far different from real-life, real-world, significance.

Whenever you see a study or press release from the researchers themselves that fails to mention data in important and meaningful terms, think "This is BS."

What is truly significant, is that the school system employees did not report these child victims of nutritional abuse to child services in DC as they are required to per §4-1301.02, et seq.

Of course, we suffer from a national epidemic of complicity in child abuse by teachers, principals and sick care workers - especially physicians, who are routinely breaking the law and getting away with it.

If you really want to protect the kids, next time you read a local story about an obese kid and there is a comment from a teacher, principal or doctor about what a "shame" or "problem" it is, pick up the phone and call child services in your area to report the abuse and the complicity of the teacher, principal or doctor.