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school policy, with which parents know when their children overweight or obese are seemingly have little effect on the problem, finds a new study.

In the last ten years, almost all public schools in California seven collects information about height and weight of children in the fifth and ninth grade, but only some decided to send the results to parents. This gave Dr. Kristine A. Madsen from the University of California, San Francisco, a unique opportunity to evaluate the impact of this communication.

She found that children whose parents were told are you overweight, weight were not more likely years later when children have lost their Eltern were not notified.

These findings in the archives of Pediatric & adolescent medicine, reported that school should concentrate their efforts officials on interventions that have the most impact, as you the school lunches healthier and promoting the use of physical activity, Madsen note taken.

"Physical education is probably the most underused public health tool we", she said in an interview. "We call for schools really to ensure that their physical activity as far as possible support environments."

And let the parents know their children have a unhealthy weight would have achieved nor impact, Madsen, sagte-- most parents were notified by letter, which some may not have received. Plus, almost none of the letters used the terms "Overweight" or "obese," children "Body mass Index," a measure of weight relative to the height that cannot understand some parents referred to instead, she added.

"Even if they see the letters, we think that they can not get the message."

Health experts are currently at odds about the benefits of screening children for provides schools-at the time, the Institute of Medicine recommends it, together with parental communication, but there are other agencies as the Centers for disease control and prevention and the American Heart Association maintain the not enough evidence to support the practice.

The nation schools reflect this Division: 2006, 41 percent of school districts required officials to measure children's height and weight, and three-quarters of the notified parents of the results of these schools.

That the current system is no effect no great surprise, Madsen told Reuters Health. Even if parents change the domestic environment by healthier food, if nothing in the school-changes noted for example where children spend the most time-it is hard to see, they are an effect.

Plus added a single letter might not enough parents convince to drastic changes at home, as they have with often other issues that have to do that, they. "Most parents are already the best, that they can do what."

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