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(Photo Credit:  Billboard, Georgia  Childrens Health Alliance, via Body Impolitic)

No one could argue that efforts to promote healthy eating and exercise among school children, such as Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign, aren't well-intentioned.  But as Paul Campos argues in this recent Daily Beast article, too often anti-obesity campaigns focused on children stigmatize the very individuals they are supposedly trying to help.  The image above, a billboard produced by the Georgia Childrens Health Alliance, is a case in point.  These scowling children with warning labels slapped across their stomachs seem to have crossed the line from being victims of genetics, environment, lack of opportunities for healthy exertion, and inavailability of affordable healthy meal choices to, I guess, being perpetrators.  Something has clearly gone wrong here.  Seriously, how would you like to be one of the kids in these pictures with your body held up as a symbol of a national crisis?