State ends policy to measure students body-mass index as it was embarrassing to students. (Nebraska, school)

[lovecrowds]

Nebraska schools are no longer required to measure students' BMI during health screenings | Live Well Nebraska | omaha.com

I guess rather then addressing a health-crisis, the state just wants to ignore it as was supposedly embarrassing and unnecessary.

I guess the state just wants to ignore the rampant amount of overweight children in the state.

In Nebraska as with alot of other midwestern states if it isn't a big steak it is either out of a box, can or plastic package.

There are alot of nice people in Omaha, but the looks I get for in public for eating fruits and vegetables in public.

[chucksnee]

Originally Posted by lovecrowds

Nebraska schools are no longer required to measure students' BMI during health screenings | Live Well Nebraska | omaha.com

I guess rather then addressing a health-crisis, the state just wants to ignore it as was supposedly embarrassing and unnecessary.

I guess the state just wants to ignore the rampant amount of overweight children in the state.

In Nebraska as with alot of other midwestern states if it isn't a big steak it is either out of a box, can or plastic package.

Why does the government have to tell you if you're fat or not? Where are the parents?

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by lovecrowds

Nebraska schools are no longer required to measure students' BMI during health screenings | Live Well Nebraska | omaha.com

I guess rather then addressing a health-crisis, the state just wants to ignore it as was supposedly embarrassing and unnecessary.

I guess the state just wants to ignore the rampant amount of overweight children in the state.

In Nebraska as with alot of other midwestern states if it isn't a big steak it is either out of a box, can or plastic package.

There are alot of nice people in Omaha, but the looks I get for in public for eating fruits and vegetables in public.

Again, an attempt to demonize a large group of people overall over ending a program that is questionable in nature to start with.

[latimeria]

BMI is quite flawed. Maybe if we were able to make technology like the BodPod and other methods that actually tell your body composition more widespread, we could have a better sense of it all. BMI is just a simplistic height and weight calculation that can't tell body composition or anything like that.

[ohhwanderlust]

It's the parents' job to know whether their kids are too fat.

[Frank DeForrest]

Thats too bad, they could have easily expanded the meddling into telling people what to eat, drink and wear.

[Crashj007]

Originally Posted by pknopp

Again, an attempt to demonize a large group of people overall over ending a program that is questionable in nature to start with.

ITYM, "an attempt to demonize a group of large people overall"

[katzpaw]

I have never heard of school health screenings.
Is that just a Nebraska thing?

"School health screenings also check vision, teeth and hearing. Students are screened in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, seventh and 10th grades."

[elan]

Tax payer money is better spent buying text books and computers, fat shaming is not.

[No_Recess]

Up next, State ends State as it is embarrassing to any freedom-loving person.