Thanks for nothing

A new study claims that obesity among children is leveling off. But the battle is not over!

However, experts caution there’s still much to be done to improve the health of American children because the number of youngsters who are overweight today is still triple what it was in the 1960s and 1970s.

“The rates are still very high. But this study suggests there may be some cause for optimism as the rate appears fairly level over eight years,” said study author Cynthia Ogden, an epidemiologist at the National Center for Health Statistics, whose findings are published in the May 28 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The story claims that researchers went as far back as 1999, compared obesity data and discovered no statistically significant differences in the prevalence of overweight children.

And since only recently has government gotten “serious” about childhood obesity and passed laws to “help” fat kids change their habits and educate parents and teachers, we can deduce that nannyistic programs have done absolutely nothing to help the problem.