The News lately seems to be awash with news about obesity, one story worried me a great deal.
The government seems to be considering proposals to inform parents if their children are overweight. What particularly worries me is that there seems to be no follow up plans, it would seem as though parents are just going to be told your child is fat. What good is that?
I remember at School having some kind of health check by the School Nurse, who told me I was overweight and should try to lose weight by changing my diet. She then proceeded to tell me not to eat a list of foods that I did not eat and when I told her I didn't eat what she was reeling off, she just ushered me out of the room. This stupid cow of a nurse just made me feel utterly powerless about body and that is just one of many experiences that for so many years haunted me and made feel totally out of control of my body.
My concerns are that some parents won't know how to change their children's diets and that children, will like I did grow up with poor self esteem.
It does seem that there are some excellent and positive schemes out there by the NHS to support overweight/obese children if they want to lose weight, but I suspect that if the government decided to follow this course action there won't be enough cash or places for every overweight child to be involved with one of them.
Oh how I worry.
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