Motherlode | Parents Don't Notice Extra Pounds on Overweight Children

Motherlode | Parents Don't Notice Extra Pounds on Overweight Children
Despite growing awareness about childhood obesity, parents actually seem to be getting less aware of their own child's weight problem. New research shows that most parents of overweight toddlers and preschoolers view their child's weight as “just about …
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Is The War On Fat Harming Our Children?
America's ongoing war on fat, which aims to save this country — and especially its young people — from a costly and damaging epidemic of obesity, turns out to be dangerous all on its own: It exacts a severe psychological and physical toll on the very …
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95 percent of parents think their overweight children look 'just right'
When researchers recently looked at data on how parents perceive their overweight young children, they learned that 94.9 percent believe the kids' size to be "just right." As startling and unsettling as that statistic may be, it had been shown before …
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Parents see overweight children as 'just right'
When researchers recently looked at data on how parents perceive their overweight young children, they learned that 94.9 percent believe the kids' size to be “just right.” As startling and unsettling as that statistic may be, it had been shown before …
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Study – Many parents of overweight kids believe their children are 'just right'
Twenty years ago, a similar survey showed that parents of that era also had the same perceptions about their overweight children. “That's what we have become accustomed to, regardless of health,” New Jersey nutritionist and physiologist Felicia Stoller …
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Almost all parents of overweight children believe their children are 'the …
The misperception of weight was found to vary across demographics, with more African-American families perceiving their overweight children to be the right weight than parents from other groups. Weight misperception was also found to be stronger among …
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A quarter of children under five in UK are overweight or obese – the second …
Nearly a quarter of children under five in the UK are overweight or obese, research has found. The European study found the UK has the second highest proportion of overweight children out of the 28 countries that were able to provide data. With 23.1 …
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Ask The Ethicist: Patients Recording Doctors, And Parents Protecting …
A study from your institution, NYU's Langone Medical Center, found that almost 95 percent of parents with overweight children thought their kids looked "just right." Forty percent of adults are overweight, so when you're overweight you start to think …
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