Posted AT 4:45 AM EDT on 22/10/07
Schools blasted for obesity epidemic
QUEBEC — One of the world's leading obesity researchers is lashing out at the sedentary nature of schools, saying the lack of physical activity in the curriculum is "unethical" and "uncivilized," and at the root of the childhood obesity epidemic.
"Schools, it's time to wake up," Jean-Pierre Després said yesterday in a fiery keynote speech to the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in Quebec City.
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