Candidate for
Board Member; San Mateo Union High School District

samgoldberg32@hotmail.com Printed: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 2:03 AM

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From : Sam Goldberg <samgoldberg32@hotmail.com> Sent : Sunday, October 2, 2005 10:29 PM To : samgoldber32@hotmail.com CC : samgoldberg32@hotmail.com

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Why be a Candidate?

In 2004, as a candidate for the SMC Board of Education, 28,000 plus parents and concerned citizens voted for my curriculum-content based platform to ensure the future health of our students by effectively countering student obesity and the use of PED's in San Mateo's schools. These Parents have shown me they want my kind of approach.

The Parents Role

While parents do bare significant responsibility along with the local school, that responsibility in general, is not to initiate curriculum but to support it while students are at home. However, parents do bare the final responsibility for protecting their kid's .health. When a school board fails in its efforts to create an effective program, parents bare the responsibility of demanding something or someone better, or stop their complaints.

FACTS

Generally, parents think the school board's fundamental responsibilities are curriculum and student health and safety.

Local newspaper reports show approximately one-third to one-half of all SMC Union HS District kids are obese, while approximately five to fifteen percent of our district's kids participate in sports.

Parents of these obese students (30-50 percent of students) and of those who actively engage in school sports (5-15 percent of students ) look for their local school board to quickly and effectively deal with admitted school related medical emergencies like the student obesity epidemic and the use of "performance enhancing" drugs in school sports.

CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS

Taking each of the other candidates and board members at their word, none claim the expertise needed for solving our student's obesity epidemic, nor offer experience required to successfully counter the use of performance enhancing drugs (PED's) in our school sports.

Without insuring there is at least one curriculum-focused board member who is an obesity expert and who also possesses the required sports related background to effectively counter the use of steroid like drugs in our school sports, the needs of parents and students concerned with these issues, approximately 35-65 percent of our student population are left un-attended to.

Notice and the degree of concern a candidate holds for issues are marked by the candidates platform. In both the 2004 San Mateo County Board of Education election, and the current San Mateo Union High School District election, Coach Sammy Goldberg was and is the only candidate to address the student obesity and steroid issues and offer a curriculum-content platform focused on eradicating our student obesity epidemic, as well as, countering use the of performance enhancing drugs in school sports.

Coach Sammy Goldberg is the only candidate claiming the needed expertise required to successfully address these issues.

The Issue

How The Schools deal with obesity.

The current board has admittedly found itself in the midst of a medical epidemic it cannot cope with. While it is has documented no effective antidote to halt the rising tide of student obesity, it has constructed a critique of the problem which shifts the major responsibility from the school's regiment onto

parents,

the business community, e.g. fast food chains,

the kids themselves and

Sacramento.

A New Era in Health and Sports Education

Dealing with Student Obesity

The obesity issues confronting students and parents requires a New Era in Sports and Health education in San Mateo's schools. One that invites inquiry and change based on expertise, rather than just good will. Unfortunately, our current board and the other current candidates are admitted non-experts on obesity, and are thus precluded from taking responsible positions or even reviewing the critical subject matter required without outside supervision. Thus, they find themselves once more unable to counter the epidemic rise in their students obesity, without incurring significant time delays required to master the subject, as well as the added costs of outside reports, reviews and recommendations etc. This ongoing but unacceptable method of operation, is scheduled to be continued for the current new year, thus insuring unhappy parents can expect no end to these unwanted gains.. A curriculum oriented board member with strong expertise in obesity is a logical addition to the board.

Who's at fault?

In this case, parents are right. Schools are the major source for the increase in obesity of their students by virtue of the following facts:

Statutory mandates direct the SMUHS board to:

Teach students how to maintain a healthy lifestyle

Require students to be present at school during normal school hours and submit to the judgments of instructors and staffs regarding participation in healthful verses harmful activities.

Require all kids, regardless of weight,to participate in the currently organized P.E. class fitness regiment, of which weight control is a subset goal

Review and update curriculum used to address student health including obesity

Report findings on this issue (and others) to parents and the community, facilitating a health exchange of ideas concerning those findings

Lack of expertise

School board members are unable to effectively review their own currently recommended antidote, (Itself a breech of the oath taken when accepting a board position), due to an admitted lack of expertise in the subject matter and/or due to a lack of time argument.

By simply reaffirming some past review, the nature, quality and content of which remains unknown, the local board, like the County Board, avoids not only the required review parents expect, but the associated expense in time and money such deeply needed review would take, thus re-enforcing the arguments for not looking into the issue at the evidence level.

Thus, guided by the County Board of Education's practice of extending past approval to the current years Physical Education Mainframe, the County Board and the local school districts avoid the review requirement parents expect, without a breech of oath, while pointing to the savings in time and money which can be directed to less taxing issues. After all, they have pointed to parents as the place where the buck stops on this issue.

To date, both the county and our local school board, has yet to issue notice to parents of obese students, that its members

actually read its P.E. Mainframe

approves or disapproves of the regiment based on the recent reading

disclosed why it approves or disapproves of the regiment based on the recent reading

has collected or updated its findings based on the currently in-place regiment, or

that such data on the obesity epidemic during 2003, 2004 or 2005 school years are available for parental review and input..

PARENTS EMERGENCY STUDENT OBESITY SUMMIT

A presentation in lay-terms for non-experts October 27, 2005 in Central San Mateo(site TBA)

C0-Sponsored by http://www.fatlossnewsradio.org

Parents, teachers, health care workers, physicians and librarians are invited to a presentation of recent disclosures sent to U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Robert Carmona, by Dr. Martin Risk, confirming many popular exercise activities currently thought to promote weight loss in typically obese kids and adults actually prevents them from burning fat.

Focus will be on those disclosures confirming "aerobic-type" fat loss exercise programs, as currently defined and recommended by the Fitness Industry, routinely recommended by pediatricians and doctors for weight loss and currently practiced in all San Mateo County public schools, actually:

1. Causes typically obese kids to burn less fat than if they just laid down and rested.
2. Causes this depression of fat utilization to continue for many hours after exercise has been completed.
3. Should not be used as an exercise regiment for fat loss in typically obese kids and adults.

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Martin Risk, Ph D, Palo Alto, Ca, is an Expert Witness with a focus in Bio-analytical Chemistry.

Dr. Risk, co-author of the disclosures sent to the Surgeon General, will offer a concise review of the core data, in lay terms, followed by a brief question and answer period.

Sammy Goldberg, San Mateo, Ca, is director of the Institute for the Study of Obesity and Society and author of "The Fib Factory"-a whistleblower's looks at the selling of Aerobics, America's #1 fat loss Hoax.

Mr. Goldberg touches on the man made factors causing the epidemic rise in the rate of obesity among students as well as the proper corrective measures recommended in the disclosures.

Guests are invited to a presentation of the most controversial and compelling evidence on Obesity, Fitness, Aerobics and their implications for unintended medical mal-practice you will ever attend.

The disclosures and data offered were first documented in Sammy Goldberg's book and came from his private collection of legally withheld Fitness Industry-conduct research on the:

• **Negative side-effects of aerobic exercise on fat utilization in non-athletes

INTERVIEW (taped) Steve Evans, Ph D, Exercise Physiologist

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED To assist parents, we ask for volunteers to adopt a local school in their community, and attend the one hour discussion as a parent representative, when no parent, or parent teachers association representative from that school can attend. Volunteers are simply asked to attend on behalf of that school's parents, thoughtfully consider the data presented, and carry back your review for a later scheduled presentation to those parents who could not attend.

Designed for non-experts/conducted in lay terms, No past knowledge is required. Only requires a sense of curiosity and interest.

Students, seniors, athletes and concerned citizens are encouraged to adopt a San Mateo school and attend as that school's volunteer parent representative.

RSVP required

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