Monday, March 24, 2014

When Mike Huckabee Was Fat-Shaming the Schoolchildren of Arkansas

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16994609/ns/health-childrens_health/t/arkansas-obesity-report-cards-get-failing-grade/

As governor, Mike Huckabee lost a considerable amount of weight through diet and exercise, then got self-righteous about it: wriing a book titled Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork and having children's BMIs (body mass indexes) on their report cards. Not only is the BMI an imprecise measurement of how overweight one is (e.g., muscle weighs more than fat, so a very muscular child could be considered obese), what else did Huckabee do to help reduce obesity among Arkansan schoolchildren?

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