The Medical Freedom Channel

“The American Academy of Pediatrics wants to turn children’s doctors into activity police, encouraging them to routinely monitor how active patients and their parents are each day to help conquer obesity. Boosting daily physical activity from infancy through the teen years is a key to fighting fat, and parents need to set good examples by adopting active lifestyles, the group says in a new policy statement. It is published in May’s Pediatrics, being released today. The policy says pediatricians should ask patients and parents at regular office visits how active they are. … Also, schools should reinstate mandatory daily physical education from kindergarten through high school. These classes should allow participation by all children, including the disabled.” [editor’s note: Once again, the nanny staters take their assumed in loco parentis to extremes. - SAT] (05/01/06)