"The state of Michigan and the county of San Diego, Calif. have recently made the decision to employ their existing electronic immunization registries as a means of tracking the obesity rates of children. The data gathered from such systems can be an extremely valuable means of tracking the obesity epidemic in their jurisdictions and evaluating the effectiveness of ongoing obesity intervention programs, something not currently possible."Using the data for evaluation of programs is certainly inadequate and will almost certainly make no difference.
It should be used to hold parents accountable for the nutritional abuse of their children.
Also, a better start would be a registry of fat parents starting when they have kids.
This would alert social services to follow-up in order to prevent or catch child abuse when early.
Still, it is heartening to see that someone is at least finally starting to think about keeping tabs on the fat.
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Hello, Marcus, and welcome to Fitness Watch.
Thank you for your comment, which I have reproduced below. I removed the original since it was an ad linked to a dietitian's website:
"If children will be introduced to healthy foods from the very start, then it would be easy for them to stick to a healthy lifestyle in the long run. Thanks for sharing this!"
It is my opinion that there are no "healthy foods," rather there is eating healthily.
Clearly, if a child is acculturated to healthy eating, he or she has a much greater chance to develop into a fitter person.
Kudos, to you for your support of the kids.
Thanks, again, for visiting.
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