Awareness of how to live a healthy life with the help of
nutrition and exercise education in schools could potentially be
life-saving – if not at least life-prolonging – programs with
the high rates of obesity in America’s youth. However, many
parents are becoming concerned that the approach many of these
programs take may not produce the beneficial results intended by
their creators. Parents worry the emphasis of many anti-obesity
education campaigns is put on not being overweight rather than
learning how to live a balanced life that takes exercise and
good food choices into account. The Goal of Anti-Obesity
Programs Should Be to Inspire, Not to Inject Fear The aim of
anti-obesity education should be to motivate kids to want to
live a long, healthy life with as many options available to them
as possible, unhindered by the medical and physical constraints
that come with being obese. Nevertheless, in a recent poll given
by the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, 82 percent of parents
reported at least one obesity i