Education News – Grace Smith
“A study has been released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concerning the effects of student body-mass index report cards, which are currently issued in many schools across the country, that shows ‘grading’ obesity levels accomplishes little. New York City public schools began providing students with these BMI assessments a decade ago, hoping that the information would spur the fight against the obesity epidemic in the country’s largest school system. The results indicated that those girls who were over the average weight thresholds had not lost weight…In recent years, child obesity in the US has remained static and has even declined among preschoolers. But over one-third of young people and adolescents across the country were obese or overweight in 2012, according to information from the CDC.”(more)