Ban school parking to slim down fat kids, New Zealand officials say

Wellington - Health officials in New Zealand's largest city suggest banning parking near schools to make fat kids walk more as a way to fight childhood obesity, a newspaper reported Saturday. A full 40 per cent of all car trips around Auckland are to drive children to school, the New Zealand Herald quoted regional health officials as saying. Convenience stores and fast food outlets near schools should also be banned, the Auckland Regional Public Health Service told a parliamentary committee studying measures to combat increasing obesity in young people. Surveys show 10 per cent of New Zealanders are obese and 21 per cent overweight. Pat Newman, president of the Principals' Federation, scorned the proposals as unjustified restrictions on individual freedom, telling the paper, 'I thought the communist state had disappeared.' He said obesity should be addressed through nutrition education, and providing this was not the responsibility of schools. © 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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jadeSep 12th, 2007 - 22:27:28

making fat kids walk is not only singalling them out fior the fat taunts but is NOT going to stop them from becomng larger and losing weight, you cant controll what people eat in the safety of their own homes!! come on people think about things if people didnt want to be obese in the first place they would do something about it!

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