Over Weight School Children To Get Home Help

[Mancie]

most of it is just Human nature, no amount of information about calories and diet will make any difference. just by instinct we know that steak pudding, chips and gravy is possibly less healthy than a bowl of spinach.. but I do find it strange that any new ideas are always slammed on this forum... at least this is some iniative being shown..of course money could be spent elsewhere.. but then it always could be, It's better that the Goverment take some sort of action rather than just stick heads in the sand.

[Loz]

Think it will be a waste of money personally.
Most parents will probably opt out of it because they don't believe their kids are obese.
Also any semi-intelligent person knows what foods are bad and which are good for you so if they feed kids junk food its laziness and ignorance,i don't believe a nurse telling them to do things differently will change anything imo.
Yes it is an issue that needs addressing but don't think this is the way.
For starters instead of giving parents the choice to opt out of their kids being weighed etc... why not make it compulsory?
And i agree about making certain foods cheaper and others dearer.
Has anybody got other ideas about waht could be done apart from what has already been mentioned?

[accyman]

could firebomb iceland to help cut child obesity but then again the smell of cooked chicken will have the fat kids rushing into the flames