I couldn’t agree more!
A University of Queensland health expert has labelled the practice of inspecting children’s lunchboxes at school as both “perverse” and unlikely to improve children’s health.
Associate Professor Michael Gard of the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences said hysteria about childhood obesity was fuelling a range of school-based practices that infringed the rights of parents to choose how they raise and care for children.
“Panic around obesity appears to trump all other concerns in the current climate,” Dr Gard said.
“Despite quite well-known data that Australian rates of childhood obesity have changed very little over the last 15 to 20 years, this is an issue that still tends to be discussed in breathlessly apocalyptic terms.
“Yes, too many children are overweight, but the hysteria we have created is out of proportion to the problem.
“As a result, we now have a kind of Wild West situation in which some schools, often with the best of intentions, have decided to take matters into their own hands.
“In this environment, the lunchbox inspection appears to have become a quite ‘normal’ and acceptable practice.”
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