Overweight students forced to take fitness course or not graduate
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#2It might be controversial but I personally agree.
Especially as an adult your BMI is something you control. I don't understand why society is so tolerant of people mildly self-harming. Especially when the poor health as a result of obesity has an adverse affect on the economics of health the health care system we all use (public health, or company group pools).
If this was about stopping people cutting themselves for a high, then there wouldn't even be a debate. But because it's about an eating related disorder people are defending their dysfunction as acceptable.
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#3http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=959884
I hope this submission doesn't get killed too.
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#4Maybe not having a KFC on campus would help...
http://www.lincolnuniversitydining.com/locations.html
Re: Overweight students forced to take fitness course or not graduate
#5It might be controversial but I personally agree. Especially as an adult your BMI is something you control. I don't understand why society is so tolerant of people mildly self-harming. Especially when the poor health as a result of obesity has an adverse affect on the economics of health the health care system we all use (public health, or company group pools). If this was about stopping people cutting themselves for…
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Re: Overweight students forced to take fitness course or not graduate
#6I don't get it. My college required 3 credits of physical education/nutrition to graduation and we didn't have newspapers bemoaning that we were forced to take these courses. The point of controversy seems that they only require the course for overweight students--but on the other hand students who can demonstrate proficiency in other subjects (by placement tests or AP scores for example) can skip otherwise mandatory classes. (on the third hand BMI is probably a lot closer to bullsht than an AP score)
"Forced" seems a bit strong a word though when it's your choice where (or if) you attend college.
Re: Overweight students forced to take fitness course or not graduate
#7I don't get it. My college required 3 credits of physical education/nutrition to graduation and we didn't have newspapers bemoaning that we were forced to take these courses. The point of controversy seems that they only require the course for overweight students--but on the other hand students who can demonstrate proficiency in other subjects (by placement tests or AP scores for example) can skip otherwise mandatory…
> "Forced" seems a bit strong a word though when it's your choice where (or if) you attend college.
"Forced" wasn't considered too strong a word when we were talking about tuition increases.
Re: Overweight students forced to take fitness course or not graduate
#8It might be controversial but I personally agree. Especially as an adult your BMI is something you control. I don't understand why society is so tolerant of people mildly self-harming. Especially when the poor health as a result of obesity has an adverse affect on the economics of health the health care system we all use (public health, or company group pools). If this was about stopping people cutting themselves for…
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The evidence you cite for low-obese BMI's being healthier than normal BMI's is a blogger's critique of published research which had the opposite finding. Incidentally, the first commenter on the blog did a pretty thorough job of refuting the blogger and defending the original study (whose findings contradict the claim you made here)
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#9Is this really any different than the "diversity" classes that some schools make freshmen take?
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#10I run four days a week, climb, and lift weights; my maximum bench was 315lbs. I'm also 5'8" and weigh 200lbs, giving me a BMI > 30. By this university's standards, I'm thus obese and require supplementary physical education.
When I was seriously into bodybuilding and weighed 175lbs, I looked like a take-home size action hero. Six pack, huge arms, etc. My BMI at that time was 25.8, which is still considered 'overweight', and 'unhealthy'.
I'm all for encouraging fitness, but using some totally worthless metric to determine who needs to take a PE class is, at the very best, a waste of time and a blatant tax on the students.