What a sad statement about people. The fact that we - as well as the Brits and Aussies, etc. - live beneath the footprint of an omnipotent state is no mistake. The masses never fail to embrace the central planners and their agenda for body and mind control.

Parents are supporting the Government's intended plans to change whether parents are told if their child is obese, but want the plans to go even further than those currently proposed.

In a study of Child Obesity to be launched next week by Havas media agency MPG, 9-in-10 parents (89%) believe the government should actively tell parents if their child is obese. This is in line with present government intensions.

However, 7-in-10 parents (72%) believe parents should NOT be allowed to opt out of being told if their child is obese. Currently, the government is planning to allow parents the chance to opt out from receiving their child's results.

In America, there are many folks who would love to nationalize the obesity "crisis" and its various "solutions."

Just as broad-based approaches have been used to address other public health concerns—including automobile safety and tobacco use—obesity prevention should be public health in action at its broadest and most inclusive level. Prevention of obesity in children and youth should be a national public health priority. Since the 1930s, the federal government has had commitments to programs that address nutritional deficiencies and encourage physical fitness, but only recently has obesity been targeted specifically. In Healthy People 2010, the health objectives for the nation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) set a goal of reducing the proportion of children and youth who are obese to 5 percent by 2010. Only through policies, legislation, programs, and research will meaningful changes be made. The Secretary of HHS is in the best position to convene a high-level task force involving other federal agencies to coordinate research programs, policies, and budgets aimed at reducing childhood obesity and to catalyze the interdepartmental collaborations needed to resolve such a complex issue.

Question: if the federal government has been "addressing nutritional deficiencies and encouraging physical fitness since the 1930s," and we find that nutrition, obesity, and health "crises" have become more prevalent in those 75 years (according to the alarmists), how do the planner-bureaucrats justify a further increase in federal government intervention?