April Is National Child Abuse Prevention Month - 30 Tips and Facts in 30 Days

With certainty, fattening kids up by making them overweight/obese is child abuse.

Nutritional child abuse is the most common form of child abuse of which we are aware. About one-third of all kids are overweight or obese. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month in the USA. To help these children, who are arguably the most abused on earth, Fitness Watch will offer 30 tips and facts – one for each day in April – directed at saving the children. Even if you are not from the USA, these facts and tips can help you and your children, too.

Today's Tip - Another way to get involved.

Here is an excerpt from an article about overweight/obese kids:

"US kids are not only too heavy; they're also out of shape, according to a new study of 5th and 7th grade students in Georgia.

Half didn't reach minimum standards for healthy aerobic fitness, Dr. Kenneth E. Powell, a physician in private practice, and his colleagues found, while nearly a quarter didn't make the grade in terms of muscle fitness, endurance or flexibility.

Powell and his team determined body mass index (BMI) and tested fitness and physical activity levels of 5,248 students from 93 schools across Georgia."

I am willing to bet that these docs did not do their IMHO mandated by law duty and report these kids to Georgia's child and family services department.

This makes them, IMHO, complicit in the child abuse.

You can call child and family services if you want. But that is not today's tip.

The article was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, April 2009 issue.

Many medical journals demand that authors disclose whether they have an economic interest in the drug, device, etc., about which they are writing.

Likewise, these journals should demand that sick care workers (or education workers in their journals) disclose if they have performed their duties and reported the abused children.

To get involved, go to the websites of the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and whomever else you choose and ask them to demand this information from their authors.