Auntie Charo's Soapbox

I once wrote my opinion on how obese the cops were and got my head chewed off because I made my opinion public. It was not the forum, it was said....that I was not helping them, that it was supposed to be done in the doctors office, that the doctors were trained to make the encouragements to help these poor souls to make changes in lifestyles and eating habits, that public humiliation would only make matters worse....so, not being a doctor, and certainly not being like Tom Cruise and knowing everything, I backed off......and now, there's a doctor/lawmaker that's attempting to do the bmi thing for fat/obese kids in schools, sending them home with notes to 'help' them with body mass fat......his intention, like mine are the same.....unfortunately, the child that's known to be fat will only be poked more fun at and will be made more fun of and in the end, will probably carry on into adulthood creating more eating problems because of the attention they got in school. Perhaps the teachers should pick out these obese kids(perhaps we should pick out the obese kids and obese teachers, principals and superintendents first? then point out the kids to the parents and bring them into a private/closed meeting and teach them some nutritional facts.....unfortunately, it's expensive to eat right....vegetables are expensive...unless you're living in the states...or are on food stamps.
Dr/senator Cruz should perhaps mandate along with Dr. Kasperbauer with direct instructions, the way how to eat and change the cafeteria menus and start the eating habits there.....and have ALL schools provide good exercize programs that school children MUST participate in. Scholl children in Japan and China MUST participate in these programs and for the most part, don't grow up living la vida diabetes!
We have laws for smoking.......we still smoke ourselves to death...we have laws for drinking and driving.......how many DUI arrests were in today's police blotter......likewise drug abuse? We can't measure our children's bmi and expect our parents(who don't bother to attend PTA meetings) to feed their children the right meals because their parents didn't feed them the right foods....red rice, KFC swimming in oil or McDonald's fries/burgers swimming in the same artery cloggers will continue to add weight to our children until we explain why eating these foods aren't healthy(once in awhile won't kill anyone) for our kids......get a life, senator........figure out where we're going to get the money to pay the retirement fund so that the GMH employees can retire........that's what we really need!