Minnesota Rejects Tracking Children’s BMI
As opposed to Australia, a proposal to track the BMI of children gets knocked on the head:
The bill’s sponsor says the data would only have been used to shape efforts to fight childhood obesity, but the panel voted to strip it from a larger public health bill.
The sponsor, Representative Diane Loeffler of Minneapolis, says she did not set out to monitor individual children or make their status public in the schools. She says childhood obesity is an epidemic that’s threatening the health of children everywhere.
Opponents still feared the numbers could shame overweight children and teenagers. But the proposal is still alive for now in a Senate bill.
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