{"id":6768,"date":"2013-03-03T21:50:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T02:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:15:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:15:47","slug":"this-kids-not-fat-let-alone-obese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/this-kids-not-fat-let-alone-obese\/","title":{"rendered":"This Kid&#8217;s Not Fat &#8211; Let Alone Obese!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story makes me happy (all over again) that my kids are grown, and are no longer in the K-12 educational system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/whdh.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=344884;hostDomain=wn.whdh.com;playerWidth=600;playerHeight=380;isShowIcon=true;clipId=8501515;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=Station%25201;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed\"><\/script><a title=\"WHDH-TV - \" href=\"http:\/\/www.whdh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHDH-TV &#8211; <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s just another example of &#8220;one-size-fits-all&#8221; bureaucratic thinking. I had my fill of it when my kids were in school&#8230; and so did my kids, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/31\/health\/31brod.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As Jane Brody wrote in this 2010 New York Times article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The simple answer is that the index, usually called B.M.I. for short, is a crude measure of fatness in individuals. Calculated by dividing one\u2019s weight in kilograms by the square of one\u2019s height in meters, it doesn\u2019t differentiate between fatty and lean tissue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The B.M.I. tables are excellent for identifying obesity and body fat in large populations, but they are far less reliable for determining fatness in individuals,&#8217; explained Dr. Carl Lavie, a cardiologist at the Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute in New Orleans.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Lavie nailed it. It&#8217;s one thing to gather BMI data on a population of school children for statistical purposes, but quite another to use it to assess individual kids\u00a0 &#8211; which is what the &#8220;fat letters&#8221; are all about. Although the letters acknowledge that &#8220;BMI may not tell the whole story about your child&#8217;s weight,&#8221; that&#8217;s a caveat tacked on after the judgment has already been made.<\/p>\n<p>Typical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story makes me happy (all over again) that my kids are grown, and are no longer in the K-12 educational system. WHDH-TV &#8211; It&#8217;s just another example [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,22],"tags":[235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9877,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions\/9877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}